According to the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission the mural took three months to complete. Vigil created the cover art for "Bless Me, Ultima", a coming-of-age novel written by Rudolfo Anaya, originally published in 1972. Vigil authored the book, "Mastery of Awareness: Living the Agreements", published in 2001 by Simon & Schuster/Bear & Company. The Roswell Museum published an exhibition catalog, Bernadette Vigil: the spirit's inner journey, in conjunction with her one-person show in 1997. All one-person shows cited in the chapter on the artist in "Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women" unless otherwise noted. All selected group shows cited in the chapter on the artist in "Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women" unless otherwise noted.