TSU Permanent Collection

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  Jones’ surrealist Hannah Hall mural depicts bald, one-eyed men conducting a television broadcast. The artist incorporated Hannah Hall’s architecture into the design, as the beige panel, where the camera lens would be, was a glass transom window when the mural was painted. Dr. Biggers urged students to carefully consider where to paint their murals.
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  futuristic figures, people chained, surreal body forms, dragon/monster in corner area, beaming mask figure in sky - damaged (paint chipping) possibly unfinished?
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  colorful scene, shotgun houses, children playing, elders, fun/work, mixture of homes during different times, church in background, vast landscape, quilt pattern covering houses - no damage
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  Campus Life: Turmoil of the 60’s

  eagle carrying lynch rope, war scenes, image of Tommy Smith and John Carlos’ 1968 Olympics protest, LBJ, Nixon, Dr. King, Wheatley basketball defeating TJ in 1968, skulls, White House, Capitol Building, various protest signs - no damage
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  Confederate flag, Declaration of Independence, skulls as chain links, men breaking chains, lynching - red, white and blue color pallete - damage from signage
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  angel, devil, bug, flower, standing on cross, grave, hourglass, ladder - moderate damage
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  Mills’ Hannah Hall mural reflects on white supremacist violence in the US and Black activism. Key political figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy appear throughout the mural. In the center, a man either lifts or pulls down the American flag to reveal or conceal hidden white supremacists.
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  scripture, cross, faceless figures, fire at bottom, angel, indigenous person, Blood
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  religious theme, pyramids, Jesus on cross, fish miracle, healing miracle, Mary and Joseph, damage on lining above water fountain
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  reflects on artist's life-cycle, hatching from egg, religious symbols (cross, Star of David, and Ankh), partially unfinished? - slight damage
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  vibrant colors, foliage, scenes of womanhood, childbirth, marriage, moon/stars, flower crown - no damage
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  science imagery, fumes coming from beaker, piped in background and blue/green tones - damaged, chipping paint
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  includes mushrooms, spider web, embryos, motherhood, different shades of breast in front of globe, scorpion with scroll on top of scrobe that dates October 3rd - no damage
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  featured horses on hillside and river - damaged
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  features longhorns, fence and cattle cars/railroad - damaged
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  there are birds flying and landscape in background - sepia tones, column going through middle - damaged
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  there are Genesis and biblical scenes and references to science, mostly blue and beige and there is a chip missing out of wall
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  uses green hues and features child and woman on opposite sides of column on wall - damaged
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  Heliton's mural captures the emotion and environment of a mid-20th century jazz club. Vocalists, a bassist, trumpeters, and a saxophonist are depicted in a fervent state of artistry. Heliton chose a corner spot for his mural, which lends a sense of depth to the piece, similar to how a jazz band would be physically arranged.
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  Afrocentric, three seated figures, houses and greenery, abstract people in foreground, plants and masked adorned with human figures - no damage
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  village scene, with plane flying overhead, three large facial figures, three seated people who are cooking or working with pottery - damaged
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  possibly unfinished - red and black hues, features hands and arms and one main face - possibility another mural covered by bulletin board - no damage
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  The Castration of Humanity

  Davis’ mural is a commentary on the conflict between technology & progress and history & culture. African statues are shown with their genitalia replaced by machines. Davis painted this mural in response to the destruction of several Hannah Hall murals for windows looking into a new computer lab. He foresaw that his own mural may also be damaged.
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  very narrow space, greenish blue, one figure with heavy cross hatching, moon in background - some damage
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  depiction of civil rights over time, Thurgood Marshall, Justice Earl Warren, school desegregation, children playing, importance of educational uplift - no damage