'Maia' Mural Project Exhibition

On the evening of Wednesday, November 2, the Evergreen Student Gallery held a reception for their latest show, the Maia Mural Exhibit by TESC Divest. “Maia” is the Arabic word for water, the theme of the exhibition’s work. The Middle East Children’s Alliance traveled to Gaza and asked children what they most wanted for their school. The answer they received was clean drinking water, leading MECA to build water purification and desalination units at 23 schools throughout the Gaza Strip. The exhibit at the Student Gallery consists of photographs documenting a series of murals painted at these water purification units. Artists from the United States and Gaza collaborated with the Break the Silence Mural Project, the Estria Foundation, and the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project to complete eight murals in eight days. The murals demonstrate the area’s great need for clean water, as well as expressing international solidarity for those affected.

The Evergreen Student Gallery started as a student organization in spring 2010 with the purpose of providing a space for students to exhibit their work and create artistic discourse. The gallery is open to all student work and also exists as a resource for artists to receive critique and assistance for their projects.