Untitled Campus Mural

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The Untitled Mural is less than two years old, it being made in March 2015. Carol Hergarty is one of the murals primary artist and the one who went forward to both the Board of Trustees. She had to make a presentation of what the painting would be, of what material and method they would use to make the mural, and how they would maintain the mural. She along with two other IVC faculty members and around thirty students from different classes paint it. Although Carol Hergarty the mural is not considered finished yet.
Carol Hergarty had stated that the reason that the mural was made was because many students forwarded the idea to her and she believed that there was far too few art pieces in the college campus. Perhaps that is why the mural depicts hands covered in paint opening a curtain to see the work.

Many students at Imperial Valley College view it every day as they both approach, leave, or eat by the student center. The usual location that students wait in between classes. So it is seen in a nearly constant state by the students on campus. Judging the mural with their friends or simply to themselves.

This mural represents an ideal that there is plenty of art one could make that represents the Imperial Valley, and that as recently there have begun other murals to begin there planning by both Carol Hergarty and other groups within IVC for works of art on campus.

Carol Hergarty has mentioned that many have misinterpreted the red paint on one of the hands as blood. With the blue paint on the hand being hard to see as it is on the edges of the hand and blends with the blue sky in the picture and the yellow paint on the hand being hard to notice due to its similar color to the hand. Ms. Hergarty has stated that this was not their intentions when making the mural. With the fact that the picture depicts a farm fields it is possible to see it as the bloody hands caused by harsh farm work.