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DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Controversy: The George Washington High School Murals and the 
 Removal of Public Art\n\nThe controversy over the Victor Arnautoff murals 
 at George Washington High School brings to San Francisco the public 
 discourse over public art that is interpreted to portray, or actually 
 glorifies, a narrow Eurocentric view of history. This panel will open with 
 a brief visual presentation on both the Arnautoff murals and the 
 multicultural murals painted in response to them in the early 1970s and 
 then discuss their interpretation and effective culturally-sensitive ways 
 to educate through art. It will also explore how the contemporary mural 
 movement portrays provocative themes and how to preserve progressive public 
 art from censorship. The panel will include Robert Cherny (Arnautoff 
 biographer), Lope Yap, Jr. (Washington High Alumni Association), Dewey 
 Crumpler (painter of the 1971 murals at the George Washington High School), 
 and a Native American art curator. The panel will be moderated by Harvey 
 Smith (Living New Deal and National New Deal Preservation 
 Association).\n\nVictor Arnautoff's murals are a treasure at George 
 Washington High School and at Coit Tower.  He was a communist who was 
 witchhunted in the 1950s for being such, and an anti-racist who insisted on 
 telling the truth about American history, namely the fact that this country 
 was built on the genocide of Native Americans, enslavement of Africans and 
 the vicious exploitation of the labor of all nationalities, including 
 children, that continues to this day.  It is, by definition, racist to 
 demand the removal and destruction of Arnautoff's truth-telling anti-racist 
 murals simply because some students, not all, claim they are traumatized by 
 the truth.  We have yet to hear any of these same students demand the long 
 overdue removal of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps from all of the 
 high schools of San Francisco, including Washington, which trains children 
 to kill the workers of the world to maximize the profits of the oil 
 companies and the munitions makers, the only reason the military exists. 
 JROTC marches around the school in military uniform, an unthinkable 
 traumatic experience to those of us who never attended a school where JROTC 
 was allowed, and it should be traumatic to everyone.  War is not a game; it 
 is a horrifying nightmare.\nSee 
 also:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Arnautoff 
 (1896-1979)\nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/30/18823670.php\nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/13/18823401.php\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxHijlewzoQ&feature=youtu.be\nhttps://laborfest.net/event/beyond-the-controversy-the-george-washington-high-school-murals-and-the-removal-of-public-art/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/16/18824015.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Washington H.S. Murals:Beyond the Controversy
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. Across 2d St from 
 baseball stadium.  Diagonally across King St from MoMo’s Restaurant. Walk 
 the one mile from Market on Second or on the Embarcadero to 801 Second 
 Street or take public transportation as follows: \nT or N train from 
 Embarcadero Station to Second and King Station, go to stadium side of King 
 St, 801 2d St is to the left of the stadium;\n30 or 45 bus from Market and 
 Fifth Streets (Powell Station) to end of line at Townsend between Fourth 
 and Third, then walk one block to 2d Street, then 1 blocks south on 2d to 
 King St, cross King St to stadium side; 801 2d St is to the left of the 
 stadium; \n47 bus which starts at North Point at Fisherman’s Wharf,  
 travels on Van Ness, 11th St, Bryant and ends at Cal Train Station at 4th 
 and Townsend, then walk on Townsend 2 blocks to 2d Street, then walk 2 
 block South on 2d to King St, cross King Street to stadium side, 801 2d St 
 is to the left of the stadium; \n10 bus which runs from 24th and Potrero, 
 on Rhode Island to 26th St, on Cesar Chavez St  to Dakota, Wisconsin, 
 Connecticut, DeHaro, Rhode Island at 16th St, on Townsend to Second Street 
 AND from Van Ness on Pacific to Battery, on Battery to Second St to Third 
 and Townsend, so get off at 2d Street and Townsend, then 1 block south on 
 2d to King St, cross King St to stadium side. 801 2d St is to the left of 
 the stadium.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/16/18824015.php
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