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Josefina Quezada: A Lifetime of Fighting for Public Art

Posted by luckygrrr on June 16, 2012 · 3 Comments

A team from SPARC works to clean Quezada's mural, 'The Tree of Knowledge" (Photo by Tessie Borden)

A Mexican artist who was responsible for starting the drive to restore David Alfaro Siqueiros’ downtown Los Angeles mural América Tropical was honored Monday, June 11, in perhaps the best way possible: with the start of conservation work on one of her own murals. Josefina Quezada died about three weeks ago in Mexico, but she … Read more

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