¡Displaced Mundo!

The Moody Center for the Arts launched a new collaborative project, Moody Project Wall, in the fall of 2021 with the goal of fostering cross-campus student engagement with Houston-based artists centered on creating original artwork for a wall inside the Moody’s award-winning building.

For the mural ¡Displaced Mundo!, Gerardo Rosales worked closely with Rice students and community members to create a temporary large-scale wall painting. Aligning with his larger body of work, the inaugural artist used this opportunity to examine issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality through bold images infused with playfulness. The Venezualean-born artist worked closely with a group of Rice students to create drawings inspired by the fauna and flora of South America, then they collectively painted the mural during National Hispanic Heritage Month.