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\u201cI\u2019ve seen the art in our hallways,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd everyone at Booker is always looking for opportunities to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The result was a mural painted on six windows at the entrance by Booker T.\u00a0students\u00a0Mairely Hernandez, Tahj Daniels, Lucas Sanchez and Holly Finch.<\/p>\n
The students worked four Sundays in April and May, usually starting in the morning, for one to two hours a day. Each student designed a different part of the mural, which features tacos, the Dallas skyline and street name graffiti.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to think of ways how this can really scream Rusty Taco,\u201d said Daniels, who painted the graffiti. \u201cLike you are welcome here to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Sherry Elbow selected the students’ design out of three concepts she received.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m confident that they got a real insight into what it\u2019s like to work for a real client,\u201d she said. She also said each student was paid $300 and could have as many tacos as they wanted while they were there.<\/p>\n
The supplies, which were organized into a Lowe\u2019s shopping list by the students, cost a little over $600. Leftovers will be donated to Booker T.<\/p>\n
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A mural by Booker T. Washington students at Rusty Taco on Greenville Avenue on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Dallas.<\/p>\n
El\u00edas Valverde II\/The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n
Visual artist and Booker T. teacher Emmanuel Gillespie led the project and supervised the painting sessions.
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Curious customers engaged with students while they painted the windows, and their reactions have been one of Daniels\u2019 favorite parts of the project.\u00a0\u201cI really had a little bit of cloud nine when I heard the reviews,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Audrey Elbow is hoping the mural will become a spot for social media photos, especially among people her age.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The mural has been a blessing, not just for customers. Employees enjoy the shade created inside the restaurant by the thick and colorful paint.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt definitely helps cool it out,\u201d said Mohammad Hussein, the store\u2019s general manager, who started there a year ago. \u201cThis is the best thing I think that\u2019s happened to the restaurant since I\u2019ve been here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sherry Elbow said conversations with Booker T. are ongoing around making this a yearly project. Until then, blue and green windows will make this Rusty Taco less like any other restaurant.<\/p>\n
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Rusty Taco is at 4802 Greenville Ave, Dallas, and other locations.\u00a0rustytaco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mural by Booker T. Washington students at Rusty Taco on Greenville Avenue on Wednesday, June 3, 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,109410,98968,87998,91781,89307,89018],"class_list":["post-329025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-art-and-the-city","tag-tp-booker-t-washington-high-school-for-the-performing-and-visual-arts-school","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-mexican-food","tag-tp-restaurants","tag-tp-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}