A website created to document the new mural painted on Martinez Hall in 2015 by an ENGAGE class. From the website: "This mural and website grows out of what I considered a "call and response" mix of reactions, actions, thoughts, questions, and requests from the CCA community of students and faculty to crucial events happening in our world. The stories in these pages are my attempt to respond to some of those calls. The content on the pages here come from the mural itself. My work here has been to highlight the visual codes or symbols that this mural so abundantly offers to the viewers and offer a written translation for them."
The Califia Mural on the Martinez Hall mural wall, was completed over the summer of 2015 created by student muralists Laila Guadalupe Espinoza Faik, Jacqueline Krase, Steven James Mayorga, Martina Miguens Casado, Ángel Jesús Perez working with CCA Faculty Eduardo Pineda. The team of six students combined the Virgin of Guadalupe with the legendary goddess Califia – source for the name “California” – to create a goddess of creativity, justice, and nature.