Artist:
Address:
15330 Plummer St., Los Angeles, CA 91343. (click to view)
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Date:
1984
Type:
Historic
Portrait
Description / Interpretation:
Artist:: Thomas Suriya, Lynn Hickney. On the top row are six historical portraits: Columbus, Sepulveda, an early pioneer woman, a Native American man, an African-American, and a woman. The small groups of students interacting on the bottom row appear so realistic that someone once called the police thinking they were vandals defacing the mural.
Suriya came back in 1985 to do another mural with students inside the courtyard on campus. It portrays the ethnic diversity of the school's students. In 1992 artist Manuel Velazquez and students produced another multicultural-themed exterior mural.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz