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12 - Cracking the Wall Open: Murals and Community with Willie Herrón

12 - Cracking the Wall Open: Murals and Community with Willie Herrón

Update: 2022-12-21
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Willie Herrón’s murals enrich his East Los Angeles community by preserving history and planting seeds for the future. In this episode, New Mexico-based muralist Nanibah Chacon (Diné) celebrates Herrón’s precedent of recording and amplifying local culture through his work, and she reflects on the power of public art more broadly.



Show Notes and Transcript available at www.aaa.si.edu/articulated

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12 - Cracking the Wall Open: Murals and Community with Willie Herrón

12 - Cracking the Wall Open: Murals and Community with Willie Herrón

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution