More than 90% of the state’s Chicano murals from the 1970s — a period that produced a wave of art and activism — already have been lost, including nearly all of the murals in Denver’s public parks and schools, Lucha Martínez de Luna said.
They are the first murals in the nation to make the list in its 34-year existence, and the first Colorado entry since Larimer Square was ranked in 2018.Of the more than 300 locations designated as endangered by the National Trust over the decades, fewer than 5% have been lost since making the list, according to Katherine Malone-France, chief preservation officer at National Trust for Historic Preservation.
“When the civil rights movement was going on, students were demanding they had access to their history,” Martínez de Luna said. “The murals fill this void. They became their visual texts — their textbooks. A lot of people didn’t feel comfortable going to the Denver Art Museum, or they go there and don’t see familiar faces in the artwork and nothing represents them, so murals are very significant. It’s very powerful to see yourself in art.
Martínez de Luna submitted the Chicano murals to the National Trust with the hope that a bigger spotlight would mean losing fewer irreplaceable works of art. The artwork was so popular in the community that it launched Garcia on a path of mural painting around the globe and introduced him to a love of public art.The art school of life struck Garcia a blow in 2020 when he learned from panicked phone calls that his first-ever mural had been coated in white paint by the building’s new occupants, a dispensary with new-to-Denver owners.
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