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SCL "Wall of Honor"
Mural by Eva Cockcroft
This magnificent mural hangs on the inside wall of SCL beside
the "Wall of Honor." The "Wall of Honor"
commemorates family members, heroes, and friends.
Detail
of Mural: Labor Solidarity Has No Borders, by Mike Alewitz.
The struggle of workers' movements, past and present, is the
theme of Labor Solidarity Has No Borders . This 25' x
48' mural was painted in 1990 by New Jersey artist Mike Alewitz
with funding from the City of Los Angeles through the mural program
of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). The mural
detail featured is the green monster of imperialism, guarding
the wealth of Los Angeles industry that has been created by labor.
Also depicted in this magic-realist mural is a mass of working
people cutting the electrified fence at the Mexican-U.S. border
and worker figures with the faces of revolutionaries Malcom X,
Lenin, Marx, and Rosa Luxemborg. Dedicated to the world's "undocumented"
workers, the mural graces the north wall of SCL. See an article on Mike on
the Monthly
Review website.
Women and the Labor
Movement in California, by Eva Cockcroft
Charlotta Bass, editor of The California Eagle,
and the World War II workers for whose jobs she fought, are featured
in Women and the Labor Movement in California, a 7' x
60' mural painted in 1991 by muralist Eva Cockcroft. Honoring
women workers and organizers, the mural also contains portraits
of political and labor organizer Dorothy Healey (left), International
Ladies Garment Workers Union leader Rose Pesotta (center left),
United Farm Workers Vice President Dolores Huerta and agricultural
workers leader Luisa Moreno (center right). It graces the front
exterior of the Library.
Detail
of Mural by Rene Mederos
This 10' x 24' mural was originally painted
for a group of exhibitions of art about and from Vietnam, held
at UCLA April-June, 1991, and dedicated to the memory of the
war, the recognition of U.S. guilt, and the reconciliation of
the adversaries. This mural on canvas is the work of Rene Mederos,
one of Cuba's foremost public artists, who came to Los Angeles
specifically to paint it. The motifs are based partly on designs
he made when he visited north and south Vietnam in 1969 and 1972.
This U.S.-Vietnam solidarity mural now hangs in the Library. |
