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Interview
Julie Eshelman-Lee
Director of Creole West Productions
LJC (Linda) Shimoda
mural artist
"We the People" mural and Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Commemoration
- Creation of the mural as commemoration
- History and settlers of the Louisiana Territory
- Effect of Louisiana Purchase on settlers
- Struggles of settlers
- Julie's personal interest in the bicentennial
- Louisiana's observance of the bicentennial
- Education and the Louisiana Purchase
- Optimism and Louisiana culture's view of the Purchase
- Process leading to creation of the mural
- Description of the mural
- "Culture as a river"
- How people understand through art
- Linda's artistic process and influences
- Optimism of the mural as a commemoration