THOMAS SURIYA: SIX HISTORICAL PORTRAITS (UNTITLED)




Photo © Robin Dunitz
Date
1984

Location
Francisco Sepulveda Junior High School
15330 Plummer St. (at Sepulveda Blvd.)
Sepulveda

Media Notes

Designed by Thomas Suriya, painted by students under the direction of art teacher Lynn Hickey.

Description
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-thremed exterior mural.


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