Megan Flattley is a PhD candidate in Art History and Latin American Studies and an Andrew W. Mellon fellow in Community-Engaged Scholarship at Tulane University. In 2021, with the support of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, Megan will be living in Mexico City and conducting research for her dissertation, "Out of the Fragments, New Worlds: Perspective and Spatiality in the Work of Diego Rivera."
Artists in Mexico believed that art had a unique role to play in restructuring their society after ten years of civil war.
Diego Rivera's enormous mural cycle at the Ministry of Public Education celebrates Mexico: its festivals, its industries, and its people in over 100 panels
There is no “right way” to read this mural because there is no clear beginning or end to the story. The viewer is required to construct their own history of Mexico