Spanish Students Visit Orozco Mural at Dartmouth

On Thursday, November 30th, the combined classes of Maestra Megysi’s Advanced Topics In Spanish and Maestra O’Connell’s Spanish II traveled to Dartmouth to enjoy a private tour of the famous mural painted by Jose Clemente Orozco.

Upon arrival at the Baker-Eddy Library at Dartmouth College, students were immediately assigned a tour guide with extensive knowledge and a great passion for introducing visitors to this phenomenal work of art.

It’s an astounding effort on the part of Orozco, these mural panels, which are a pictorial representation of myths, history, social justice as well as the making of the modern world, just to name a few of the themes. The two guides were skilled in helping students arrive at their own interpretations of the different panels of the mural. The tour guides then took these interpretations and added to them what others thought Orozco was aiming to depict in his work.

As a concluding statement, the work calls into question the definition of “American,” and how we in the United States sometimes narrowly define who is an “American,” and just where “America '' is, geographically speaking. It was clearly evident from the level of engagement on the part of the students that the excursion had a great deal of meaning for them.