The photographer Lou Dematteis, who took the original photograhs of the 1979 Carnaval, which became the basis for a 1983 mural now being restored, sent us the photograph he took earlier this month of the muralists once again working together.
As we wrote earlier:
With Dematteis’s photos in hand, Avilés contacted Gálvez, who then drew up a list of five other artists—Fontes, Keith Sklar, Jamie Morgan, Eduardo Pineda and Jean Shield. Over six months and on a budget of $13,000, they painted the 24-foot-high, 75-foot-wide mural that Annice Jacoby, the editor of Mission Muralismo, called an excellent example of mural realism.