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Artists Remember Painting Argentine Mural

Photo by Sylvia Maria Gross / KCUR.

In August, it will be eleven years since a 220-yard mural went up on Metropolitan Avenue in Kansas City Kansas. The mural spans the history of the Argentine neighborhood, from pre-history to the future. By Sylvia Maria Gross

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Kansas City, MO – The artists who collaborated on the project were from Kansas City and Mexico. And for several of them, painting the mural was a turning point in their lives.

KCUR's Sylvia Maria Gross talked to Virginia Oropeza, who ended up moving to Kansas City from Tangancicuaro, Mexico, and Jose Faus and Alisha Gambino, who went on to paint many murals in the Kansas City area.

The artistic director of the project, Jesus Ortiz, now lives in Mexico.

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