Flolynda Jean working on the Roxbury Rhapsody project.

Today, Flolynda Jean, a BFA Illustration student and Dorchester resident, is completing a seven-month project with a master muralist. Though she’s just a freshman at Mass College of Art, hers is an experience that many an art school grad would envy.

The 20-year-old Jean is a member of sparc! the ArtMobile team, part of the Center for Art and Community Partnerships (CACP) at MassArt. Yesterday and today she has been putting the finishing touches on a large-scale permanent artwork, entitled “Roxbury Rhapsody,” conceived by Roxbury native and renowned artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson, founder of Bennu Arts, LLC.

“Roxbury Rhapsody” was commissioned by the city of Boston’s Art Commission especially for the newly renovated Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Center (formerly the Ferdinand Building, Dudley Square Main Street, Roxbury), the new home base for hundreds of Boston Public Schools employees. Comprising 380 vibrant enamel tiles created with powdered glass, gum Arabic, and water on copper sheets, the mural now captures the eye from its prominent position at the foot of the grand staircase at the entrance of the Bolling Center. It was funded by a generous grant from the Mabel Louise Riley Foundation.

“Roxbury Rhapsody” is a 30-foot-wide by 9-foot-high irregularly shaped mosaic, designed by Jones-Henderson and created in partnership with MassArt’s sparc! the ArtMobile director Ekua Holmes and MassArt student apprentices, including Dot’s Jean and Chanel Thervil (MassArt alumna, master of arts in Art Education).

The mural title alludes to the great jazz legacy in Roxbury’s history, says Jones-Henderson, a former MassArt professor artist: “The rich musical history of Roxbury provides ample inspiration and symbolism to draw upon when one views this history as color(s), rhythm(s), and vibrations. The many colors of music as well as Roxbury’s many historical persons and institutions are represented compositionally as “Roxbury Rhapsody.”

The project has been in the works for over seven months, according to Holmes, a Boston Art Commission member. She notes that each one of the nearly 400 pieces was done by hand. “They dusted each copper tile with enamel dust. They fired each tile in the kiln. They numbered and cut each copper tile by hand.”

Holmes elaborates further: “Napoleon is one of the few artists, if not the only artist, who creates murals with this painstaking technique. Other examples of his work in Boston include a mural at the Dimock Youth Center and the ceremonial doors that grace the entrance to the library of Roxbury Community College.”

Sparc! the ArtMobile, a retrofitted Ford vehicle owned by MassArt, travels to the communities surrounding the campus, fully stocked with art supplies. It brings hands-on art projects, events, and support to neighboring schools and community groups.

As an O’Bryant High student, Jean was so captivated by sparc! that she applied to MassArt. Once the Blue Hill Avenue area resident enrolled, she decided to pay it forward by working on sparc! projects like the Bolling mural.