Laura Hawk, manager of operations for the Weinberg Center for the Arts, remembers walking through the glass doors of New Spire Stages frequently last December and watching two new murals slowly come to life.

Hawk didn’t often see muralist Leila Eguino when she arrived, since the artist did most of the painting at night, but for a period of about three weeks, she got to see blank white walls gradually filled in with black paint.