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Picture looks bleak for mural adorning former JCC


By Rachel Heller

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/picture_looks_bleak_for_mural_adorning_former_jcc_20080806/

The mural was meant to be a collaboration: A public arts agency led the bid for its creation, the surrounding community approved its design and Chicago artist John Pitman Weber stayed in the homes of local residents while he and a team of volunteers painted it during the summer of 1993.

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