ALAMOSA — Adams State University created a mural emulating the Black Arts Movement prevalent in the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. A reception recognizing the significance and importance of this artwork begins at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 26, in McDaniel Hall 301. The event is free and open to the public.

Bill Tite, M.F.A., assistant professor of art and design; and Inclusive Excellence Liaison Heidi Schneider, Ph.D., associate professor and Department of Sociology chair; and Black Student Union Student President Rudy-Criss Bukassa, collaborated to create the mural.

Tite photographed students and integrated them into the mural design influenced by a Barbara Jones-Hogu painting, “Relate to Your Heritage,” 1971. Art students, guided by Mary Wilhelm, M.F.A., assistant professor of art, painted the mural.

Schneider received financial assistance from an Adams State alumnus to create the mural. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Director of the and Chair of the Psychology Department Colleen Schaffner, Ph.D., approved the location of the mural on the third floor of McDaniel Hall.