Tony Ortega & the SMA Community Mural
Tony Ortega was on campus today to visit the Lower and Middle Schools, in preparation for his upcoming visit in early January. When he returns he will guide our LS and MS art students as they create a mural for St. Mary's Academy. The theme of the mural will be the ways in which we come together as a community at SMA. We gather for prayer and mass, to serve others in our community, to learn, to play sports and to socialize. The mural will emphasize all of these aspects of our community while incorporating our Loretto Values: Faith, Community, Justice and Respect.
Tony Ortega was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He currently lives in Denver and teaches painting at Regis University. He holds a BA and MFA in art from CU Boulder. Ortega’s work can be found in public and private collections including the Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Museo del Barrio in NYC, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Ortega’s focus as an artist is to show community, specifically the ways in which people come together as a group.
Click here to link to the MS Art Blog and more information about the SMA Community Mural.
