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 Report on national murals conference hosted by Cityarts Workshop, NYC. A Letter from Anton Refregier Los Angeles | San Francisco | Houston Massachusetts | Chicago Washington Heights | Harlem Brooklyn | Warrensburg | New Jersey Lower East Side | San Diego “Prison Walls” “Our History’s No Mystery” The Documentors:Some Guidelines Political Mural |
 Letter from Anton Refregier Statement by Carol Kenna, Greenwich Mural Workshop Connecticut | Lansing | St. Louis | Cleveland Scotland—The Wall of Neglect Milwaukee | Atlanta | South Carolina | New York Madison | Chicago | New Mexico | New Jersey Notes from Mexico, by Rini Templeton Los Angeles | San Francisco | Berkeley | San Diego Letter by John Weber to NYT. |
 Techniques
for working in schools
Examples from Taller Siqueiros The Commissioning Process Porcelain Enamel | Cast Concrete | Mosaics Grants and Funding Issues: grant proposal writing
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process—Bay Area takes responsibility
Berkeley—Commonarts—La Peña Los Angeles—SPARC | Monster Mural Project Citywide Mural Project—L.A. | We Are Not A Minority Proposition 13 and you Refregier Murals in Rincon Annex Public Art Preservation Committee Formed Santa Rosa | San Mateo County | Sebastopol | Chicago Portland, Oregon | Las Vegas | Texas | Canto al Pueblo ‘78 City bureaucracy attacks murals (Madison, Wisc). New York | Northeast Network Region | East Coast | New Jersey Artists Equity | CETA workers join union in Buffalo Taller Siqueiros closed Message from Jean Charlot Some personal thoughts from John Weber |
 Sweden
| London | Holland | Scotland
The Gentle Giant France | Vancouver | Mexico The location of Picasso's Guernica—an update Issues facing muralists (covers international material left out of previous NMN due to length.) |
 Older murals and muralists Radical Artist, Victor Arnautoff, 1896-1979 Jean Charlot | Charles White, dead at 61 Rincon Annex muralist dies | Pablo O’Higgins Trying to destroy the mural movement Excerpts from “Art Wars” Eva Cockcroft Mural Process vs. Mural Product | Houston, Texas "Qué Viva Picasso!” | Galeria de la Raza “Flor en la comunidad”/A flower in the community Muralism in Michigan Police destroy anti-nuclear mural in Denver Grant’s Tomb benches face destruction Who’s burying Grant’s Tomb? ‘Song to Martí’—collective mural Giant Rivera drawings/cartoons discovered History of New Haven Murals Dartington College Art and Design in Devon, England Scotland Project Children Are Our Future/Niños son nuestro futuro (Weber) Other 1979 murals in Chicago “Ancient Roots/ New Visions” Public Art Workshop celebrates Year of the Child Gill Park Women’s Equality mural Chicago-Raza murals London-Battersea Bridge mural destroyed, muralist arrested Artist and union clash over “T” mural (Boston) "Boston” Murals vs. Union “Public Works” (Norwich, Conn) Eva Cockcroft San Francisco murals | Santa Rosa, CA Funding and murals—Eva Cockcroft and Tim Drescher Use billboards—René Yañez |
 Int’l Women’s Day poster Not Just Murals Chicano Visual Arts Conference, Austin Tejas Community murals are something new—Osha Neumann Anti-drug abuse mural trashed Children’s Rights Mural and Reading Center Children’s murals do not have to be “Just Kids’ Art.” Nevada Country CETA murals documented AFL-CIO funds mammoth (mural?) culture project Muralists and unions Baltimore Beautiful Walls| Hestia Mural Project News from New Jersey | Denver Leo Tanguma and Houston murals | St. Paul, MN Injunction granted—Blue Island | N.Y. Cityarts update 1980 Fresco in Whitewater, WI | Letelier Brigade in Oregon Thai artists break through culture dictatorship Swedish Muralist Arrested A Short Introduction to Scottish Murals | London, England Letter from India | Public art in modern India Cueco and French public art Painting the Town | A book on law and art Rivera Frescos in Detroit at center of museum battle Technical questions | Source of professional mural slides Copyright for muralists | Mural contracts |
 Anti-WW
III spider in Chicago
Ruling class supports its own art priorities. Mural Network Initiates anti-war murals PAW Peace Mural | Nicaragua Mexican master muralist Camarena Dies at 72 Workers’ education mural in Australia Sardinian Murals—A public expression of rebellion New murals in Brussels/Belgium Stephen Lobb of London Women Street Painters Detroit | Lansing, MI | Oatman, AZ San Diego: Undocumented worker wall Review—California Murals History Lesson Taught Under a Hot Sun (re: GWLA) Bright murals painted out because of criticisms A mural to live by |
 Against
federal domestic budget cuts NYC
Reagan’s policies—Shift to the right Children’s murals in Brussels Children are meant to be happy Youth complete “Passages” Lynn Takata Reclaim The Night South Australia | Melbourne murals Welsh “Murinal” Soledad prison mural Nuclear Dawn dedicated In Brixton, England Chicago anti-WWIII mural Multicultural mural Santa Fe Community mural painting projects begin at La Rochelle Mural painting by Ernest Pignon-Ernest on new Central Union Building of Grenoble Dream mural project rural Virginia Ravenswood, Chicago Ceremonies for Heritage Now, Chicago Some Riveras in Detroit’s future Oaxaca in The History Of Mexico - Arturo Garcia Bustos Servicios De Salud Para Su Familia - Pedro Romero Murals and miners In Millvale - Maxo Vanka Oatman murals creating controversy In Min E Town Cement and murals For the People Of The Future, Chicago Mural painter believes vandalism political act—San Diego The Farmworker - San Diego Muralist recommends sealer Chicano mural defaced Hayward officials blame anti-social behavior Federal Arts Funding cutback Reagan aides discuss U.S. role In helping arts and humanities New Congress may cost arts support Suggestions for funding proposals |
 Cover - Fonseca and Sandino Recognition by Artes Visuales The Brigada Orlando Letelier Murals in Nicaragua Europe—West Germany, Brussels, Madrid (Belkin) How politics determines form—another example Oaxaca mural painters protest Carlos Sandoval to complete mural in Zihuatenjo, Mexico Viva Siqueiros (America Tropical) Argument Rages: Murals of Aztlán show Chicano Art—Looking Backward (Shifra Goldman) Portable murals by Tim Drescher United States—Library mural artists to use new technique Hijos del Sol mural honored Mural trumpets refrain of unity to Hispanic youth Santa Rosa | Baltimore Telegraph Avenue’s heroic new mural Mural reveals the many faces of Oakland (Galvez) CPAG benches by Lynn Takata Popular arts workshop, Lansing, MI Mason’s “Murinal” | Cityarts summer, 1980 Creating Public Art--Lillian Kellen Rosenberg in Boston Wall Paintings by Hank Prussing Silhouette technique used on old school mural Pro graffiti (letter from Belgium) Alatorre helps local residents fight graffiti Fran Valesco - Notes on her graphic work Posters—Silkscreening as a tool for social change Murals destroyed by anti-graffiti sealers Mural unpalette-able Whitewashing mural art - Holly Court Information on copyright, contracts O’Higgins mural endangered Mudflat sculptures |
 Cover: GWLA 1940s Murals and History GWLA cover and article Publications—Toward A People’s Art, L’Art Public, Nuts and Bolts Builders of the Cultural Present Pilsen: Urban art with a message 10 years at the Public Art Workshop Chicago Mural Group expands Cityarts Summer 1981 Dr. King mural dedicated by Boro Pres Manes Franco Gaskin (“the great”) Search for an Eighth Ave. muralist Wet Paint III, Newark NJ Artist reviews his long-lost murals Moscone sculpture by Arneson censored S.F. Women’s Building mural Mural Movie—two reviews Redesigned billboard Native Americans in Balboa Park mural Chicano Park La Revolucion Mexicana Victor Ochoa National City Library mural Warning! City Council manipulates muralists The struggle (with anti-graf sealer) continues Juan O’Gorman Arnold Belkin Shifra Goldman’s Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change Australia—Public Art Squad; Legend of Fire in Glass Europe—Amsterdam squatter murals Survey of French murals Process and collective work by Robert Sommer Haymarket Press mural in Minneapolis Balboa High School dollar bill mural |
 Cover: pachuco against Coatlicue relief Art and Society Survey re: women’s movement Billboard correction Bay Area murals Mural Resource Center—S.F. Vandalism on Our History Is No Mystery Herbert Siguenza billboard changed for magazine cover Galvez’ Street Tattoo Califas conference Activist Artist Advance Yolo County murals More censorship—Milwaukee, Ann Arbor, Baraboo “Forbidden” Chicago mural may come to life again Lawmakers play amateur art critic Lilli Ann Kellen Rosenberg’s Betances Mural Alan Barnett- Northern Journey Pt. I San Francisco mural map Chicano nationalism John Weber—'Reaganomics and the Arts” for New Art Examiner Robert Sommer on psychological aspects of community murals German trompe l’oeil murals Artistic intervention in Paris 14th District |
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Judy Baca’s Uprising of the Mujeres
Film—Anatomy of a Mural Art and Culture of the American Labor Movement - Schulz Frida, by Hayden Herrera Tim Drescher - review of Townscape Institute books Anti-graffiti manufacturer settles out of court Eva Cockcroft article from Heresies Chile: Embroideries of life and death Politics of Street Painting—Eva Cockcroft and Miriam Brosky Alan Barnett, part II of Northern Journey The Shadow Project | The Pullman Project Victor Sorell on Chicano nationalism Montana murals and muralists Restoring Frank Engebretson’s folk art Mural by Thomas Hart Benton may be split up Mural Bus Dewey Crumpler’s The Fire Next Time II Scenes from the downtown L.A. Women’s Center Australia—Direct community participation in Canberra murals Brussels St. Josse-Ten-Noode Murals Ireland photos |
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Fire Hose/Fight Back, Richard Correll, 1971
Coit
Tower San Francisco: Its History and Art Documentation
Guidelines Chicago
Mural Group South
Africa reggae singers get jail for “Seditious” song
Coit Tower muralists honored Bernal Heights mural, S.F. Wet Paint in New Jersey Determination rises as mural crumbles England—Two anti-fascist murals Art Is not a luxury: Community art in Scotland 1982 New Zealand France: The Process of Phillipe Mouillon Muralist Pablo O’Higgins dies Billboard alterations Peace, cultural resistance Community sculpture in Chicago |
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Jim Dong’s playground fish
Billboard corrections Letelier and Canales show at La Galeria Women’s roles provide theme of Canales mural Susanville’s new mural Las Lechugueras Chicano murals making mark on art scene The Carnaval mural - Daniel Galvez Evolution Rainbow resurrected Dick Correll’s prints CMG Billboard Project Journey Into Indigo - Mitchell Caton Artists fuel cause celebre over “Sprayer of Zurich.” Grupo Awuyaka—Bogota. South Africa slogans on cup bring jail term |
 Cover: War, 1983, Harding and McCrae, Brixton, London Artists and no nukes Keim Paints; Mural painting bibliography Guatemalan children’s drawings Community Arts and Third World solidarity struggles Northern Ireland style and politics London anti-nuke murals Siqueiros Diné history mural El corrido de Boyle Heights Coexistance Portrayed in Mural GWLA—summer 1983 East Los Streetscapers Olympic murals Leo Tanguma, Mary Meadows and Jim Prigoff Chicanas speak out Giving Peace a Chance Vandalism outrages Stanford gay group |
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Arch Williams
Generic how to attack injustice Puerto Rico: Art for the People Argentina mural movement Berlin murals 1984 Grenada In Memoriam, 1979-1983 Nicaragua Los Angeles rejects Barbara Carrasco LA history mural Oakland dedicates Grand Performance CMG in its 15th year "We Are Not a Minority” vandalized Caravan of Dreams Community culture, a team effort Billboard debate—Mike Mosher and CPAG |
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Detail from LULAC Mural
Labor and art Art at Work Artists brigade to Nicaragua Belkin Town in Canada uses murals to survive WPA Balmy Alley foldout Mixed media project on Avenue C - Weber ELS Cara a Cara en Centroamerica Art and Working Life in Australia Health & safety posters The Traveling Union Hall Show Artist/Writer creates graphics for restaurant strike |
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Dewey Crumpler’s Western Addition Cultural Center
Mural
Letter from Northern Ireland Letter from Pete Seeger Art & apartheid Northern Ireland Responses to Alan Barnett’s book Alejandro Canales Raya’s Portrait of America Opposition to nuclear weapons in Atlanta - David Fichter Voz Libre in Chicano Park Chicago Mural Group Making the Cottage Grove Mural Reflections - John Wehrle in S.F. Jobs Bill mural program a success in San Francisco Lipi Ni Lapu-Lapu Martin Luther King Swimming Pool mural project Tools for Peace - Arch Williams and Tony Senna 3-D images Lisa
Kokin, Batik Artist
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Portraits by Domingo Ulloa, 1974.
CMM—Who we are, what we do Legal rights of muralists, copyright for muralists José Hernandez Delgadillo: The social compromise of the artist Activist art in Mexico Belkin completes Omniciencia Genesis of the Sidewalk Mural of Tlatelolco: Jorge Infante Correa Report from Managua Hawaiian mural Chicano Museum Sunflowers of Nature Mural Turns EMU lobby into gallery New mural for Queens Senior Citizen Center Revitalization of Hollis Avenue St. Albans’ mural Los Angeles Olympics, 1984 Domingo Ulloa - People’s Artist |
 Ralph
Maradiaga obituary
Argentina | Australia | Africa | Seattle Art as a Social and Aesthetic Act: Interview with Elena Diz and Juan Manual Sanchez On the Matters of Remaining Behind and Hypocrisy Muralism: The Art of the Streets. In Whose Hands? Failed muralism Ricardo Carpani: Rebellion and Solidarity Nat'l Muralists’ Movement supports National & Popular Subjects Declaration of Argentine Society of Plastic Artists Painting the Stones of Law - prison murals in CA Erasure of three New Mexico murals War on graf Popular Arts Workshop closes Taino gods watch over Perkins St. Keim paints John Hoagland, 1948-1984 Barnett response to reviews Viet veterans say Rambo is bunk |
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Amandla, John Pitman Weber, Brown
Richard Serra—Tilted Arrogance Italian-Nicaraguan collaboration in Managua Murals destroyed in Mexican earthquake Anti-racism murals defaced in Greenwich Y Tu Y Yo Y Que The La Lucha Mural - political art park in NYC Mission playground Linda Street mural Inner City mural project Imaginaction conference - Alliance for Cultural Democracy Posters as street art & social message (Carlos Cortez) Meridian’s Art of the Americas: Junctures and Disjunctures - Goldman |
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London solidarity mural with El Salvador
The power of cultural exchange Rescuing murals hit by quake German-French Mural Painting in Lons-Le-Saunier 1984 Murals in Northern Ireland Mural questions US role in Latin America—Tanguma Bernard Zackheim, Sebastopol artist, dies at 89 Venice, CA, and Marseilles, France Mural at Zapata rally MacArthur Park - Art as catalyst for community Bay Area — Ben Franklin, Socialist Bookstore, For the Roses, Mitzvah The Chilean Cultural Exchange Project |
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Chilean poster
Paint fundamentals Art of Defiance: A Visual Feast from Latin American Women Review of Betty LaDuke’s Compañeras Scotland - Artists’ Collective Painting bridges with the Soviet Union Reflections on muralism Mexican Earthquake Update Roots of the Flowers (Nelhuayotl Xochitl) Martin Luther King, Jr, mural unveiled at DC Public Library Movimiento mural in Austin Norwalk restores depression-era murals Map mural - SF International airport Walls that Speak—Denver symposium ILWU mural sculpture—high tech paint Anti-apartheid artwork Poster distribution Billboard corrections |
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ILWU mural-sculpture
Arizona apartheid—immigrants, anti-gay laws Review - Community, Art, and the State: Storming the Citadels GMW publishes mural manual Diego Rivera - myth and reality Oakland’s Galvez paints murals for Massachusetts Donkey Cart - San Diego ILWU-Metal - Longshore Union mural-sculpture Filipino Education Center mural - “My Journey” Endangered species welcome the humans New Mexico Highlands University murals Poster archives: An effort at cultural self-preservation Rini Templeton 1932-1986 |
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Judy Branfman Alaskan textile
Margaret Randall’s trial by INS Arte Chicano Mural preservation in Mexico What’s inside the bottle—resins and binders in paint Mexican muralists organize after 1985 earthquake Preservation campaign for Mexico City Mexican mural movement in San Miguel de Allende Australia-China Mural Exchange Artist files suit (Boston) David Tineo: drawing people and murals together Art and day care Collective mural takes a shot at crack Racist message I Whitewashing art (San Jose, CA) Bringing attention to the San Luis Valley Hugo Gellert—People’s Artist 1892-1985 |
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P-9 detail
Must aesthetic impact suffer in proportion to collectivity? What’s Inside the bottle? El Amanacer - Nicaragua Muralist Orlando Suarez dies in Havana Where has the Berlin Admiral Street gone? Mexican mural preservation The Puerto Rican “Plena” as mural Defacement of Mike Alewitz’ P-9 mural Lakas Sambayanan The painting of El Nuevo Fuego Update: NMHU mural destruction Boston’s Chinatown Community Unity The Pullman Playsculpture Gender in Chinese propaganda images Bay Area street stencils |
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Emeryville mudflat sculpture
NEA defunds CMM Review of Louder Than Words by Jill Posner Review of Museum of the Streets - Twin Cities Elizam Escobar: P.O.W. in U.S. Australian International Peace Year mural Women’s mural project: Melbourne, Australia Brazil: Portinari New York Song of Unity restored Painting the Town - Moira Harris re: Minneapolis murals A hstory of Colorado murals Emeryville mudflats sculpture against U.S in Central America |
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Bread & Roses Mural by David Fichter
Pathfinder Mural Project San Diego Centro Cultural faces destruction Review of Made in Aztlán Diego Rivera: Paradise Lost at Rockefeller Center Correspondence about Community-Art-Culture-Democracy Yugoslav gift to Mexico Monumental work by Nicaraguan youth Anti-nuclear mural in Auckland Whitianga mural Ka Luku O Ohhia Lehua Orange County bus art Mele O Aloha Aima Potrero Hill mural project The Right of Education/The Seed of Freedom Arch Williams Tanguma’s Passageway of Values mural Lawrence, MA - “Bread and Roses” strike Jer O’Leary: Ireland’s banner maker Kevyn Lutton |
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New Tree of Life - swimming pool mural
National cultural conference Mosaic, not melting pot Progressive arts publications “Yuendumu Doors-Kurruwarri” Warlukurlangu artists 1987 Belkin in Nicaragua Mud Mime mural - Australia International mural in Diriamba, Nicaragua Malaquias Montoya in Tijuana San Antonio including fold-out of Casiano Homes murals El Paso murals Mexican artist donates mural to San Jose (CA) Earth Book-Skyline mural project Mujeres de Fuego New Tree of Life Recent Olivia Gude murals Gargoyles to scare developers Galleries open doors to Chicano, Latino art Survey of graffiti books |
 Community Murals crew, 1987 Top, left to right-Jane Norling, Kim Anno, Rio Norling Chavez, Miranda Bergman, Lincoln Cushing, Nancy Hom. Bottom row-Yolanda Lopez, Tim Drescher, Nicole Hsiang. Not pictured - Arch Williams, Kathie Cinnater, Jim Dong, Odilia Rodriguez. |
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