{"id":1767,"date":"2010-06-05T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/06\/arizona_school_says_lighten_sk\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:06:26","slug":"arizona_school_says_lighten_sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/06\/arizona_school_says_lighten_sk.html","title":{"rendered":"Arizona school says, lighten skin tone on mural"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last gasp of a dying order or the revitalized root music of American racism?<\/p>\n

From NYDailyNews.com. Full story here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Artists who painted a mural at an elementary school in Prescott depicting four students, with the most prominent being a Hispanic boy, were asked to lighten the faces amid taunts and tensions.
\nR.E. Wall, the artist who heads the Prescott Downtown Mural Project, told a local newspaper passersby regularly shouted racially charged comments at his group while they were creating the mural at the Miller Valley Elementary School.
\n“You’re desecrating our school,” “Get the ni—- off the wall,” “Get the sp– off the wall,” were common, Wall said. “The pressure stayed up consistently,” Wall said. “We had two months of cars shouting at us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hinshaw\/AP
\nPamela J. Smith and R.E. Wall sit on the scaffolding in front of the
\nMiller Valley School Mural titled “Go on Green” in Prescott, Ariz. <\/i><\/p>\n

\"arizonamural.jpg\"Wall said his artists began touching up the mural earlier this week.
\n“They want us to lighten up the forehead and the cheeks [of the boy in the center], and make him look like he is coming into the light,” he said. The school told Wall they want the children to appear more “radiant and happy.”
\nThe school’s principal, Jeff Lane, told the newspaper he asked the artists to “remove some shadowing that made the faces darker than they are.”
\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wall said his team began lightening forehead and cheeks earlier in the week. Way to go, artists. Way to (not) fight the good fight.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> School reverses itself after getting international attention. (Story here<\/a>.) Artists will restore original brown hue to boy’s face. Right-wing shock-jock who rallied racists against the mural fired. Even in Arizona, being the subject of worldwide scorn can have a salutary effect on behavior.
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