CA PARK FEATURING CHE GUEVARA AND FIDEL CASTRO UNVEILS LATEST FEDERALLY-FUNDED RENOVATIONS???
JoeBtfsplk
2012/01/18 12:13:01
Among the faded paintings of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, and right next to the bronze statue of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, a $1.6 million federal grant is being used to restore 18 murals in San Diego’s Chicano Park.
Last Friday, restoration artists revealed that they are about halfway though the project.
The murals have brought people to the park since the 1970s, when locals first decided to take over “a small piece of barren land under the bridge” in order to defeat a plan to build a California Highway Patrol office there, according to U-T San Diego. “They negotiated with the city and state to create a park.”
Once the park came into being, some residents decided to paint colorful and vibrant murals to vent their frustration and “tell their story.”
However, because time has eaten away at some of the paintings, “Chicano” muralists have been brought in to help restore the murals (“Chicano” is a word commonly associated with ethnic pride). With $1.6 million in federal transportation enhancement money financing the project, artists have already touched up 9 of the 18 murals designated by the grant for restoration.
The project was first proposed in 1999 and funding was approved in 2002. However, work did not start until the funds became available in 2011, according to California Watch. The restoration project faced “many bureaucratic road blocks, including the need to publish a Chicano Park Mural Restoration Technical Manual,” according to La Presna San Diego.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/feds-give-san-diego-1-6-milli...
Last Friday, restoration artists revealed that they are about halfway though the project.
The murals have brought people to the park since the 1970s, when locals first decided to take over “a small piece of barren land under the bridge” in order to defeat a plan to build a California Highway Patrol office there, according to U-T San Diego. “They negotiated with the city and state to create a park.”
Once the park came into being, some residents decided to paint colorful and vibrant murals to vent their frustration and “tell their story.”
However, because time has eaten away at some of the paintings, “Chicano” muralists have been brought in to help restore the murals (“Chicano” is a word commonly associated with ethnic pride). With $1.6 million in federal transportation enhancement money financing the project, artists have already touched up 9 of the 18 murals designated by the grant for restoration.
The project was first proposed in 1999 and funding was approved in 2002. However, work did not start until the funds became available in 2011, according to California Watch. The restoration project faced “many bureaucratic road blocks, including the need to publish a Chicano Park Mural Restoration Technical Manual,” according to La Presna San Diego.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/feds-give-san-diego-1-6-milli...
The art is nice to be honest yet the point of it is pretty obvious.
Segregation,Communistic/Socia... unrest ,revolution, discontent.
Yet they don’t wanna go back to their respective homelands.
1.6 million couldve sent a few busloads home rather then refurbishing and rejuvenating past ills. But I guess that is pretty much the far left plan isn’t it?
I mean rather then come up with solutions that require thought, just stir the pot.