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Famous Mural Artist Rebukes Local Weekly for Insinuating Her Work is Racist
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Famous Mural Artist Rebukes Local Weekly for Insinuating Her Work is Racist

Oct 09, 2019
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What happens when a world famous mural artist, commissioned recently by Bono on behalf of Paint (RED) to help raise awareness in the fight against AIDS, whose was selected earlier this year to paint murals at Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School in South L.A. as part of a week-long Maya Angelou Mural Festival in Los Angeles, and whose work incorporates images of animals….gets commission by the Charlottesville Mural Project and a local developer to paint a mural of a horse on the side of a building on West Main Street in Charlottesville, Virginia?

We make it about confederate statues, race, and gentrification of course! And C-Ville Weekly runs a story about it called "Yay or neigh?: Mural stirs controversy." Link: https://www.c-ville.com/yay-or-neigh-mural-stirs-controver…/

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