Shattered Mural is a floor installation of forty-three sculptural fragments that reference the abduction and murder of the 43 college students in 2014 in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.  This tragic event became an international symbol for victims of institutional corruption and repressive regimes around the world.

The individual fragments of Shattered Mural were created by deconstructing a mural (painted with acrylic paint on wood) into forty-three shards that when put back together would contribute to the whole.

The installation is on view with Hugo Crosthwaite’s In Memoriam: Los Angeles, co-presented with the California Historical Society. Shattered Mural is on loan from Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

FANNIE LOU HAMER (10/06/1917 – 04/14/1977)
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American civil rights leader. In 1964, she organized the Mississippi Freedom Summer, a campaign to register as many African American voters, for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party. In addition, Hamer participated in projects such as Head Start programs, The Freedom Farm Cooperative, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People Campaign.

LARRY ITLIONG (OCTOBER 25, 1913 – FEBRUARY 8, 1977)   
Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor organizer. He immigrated to the United States and organized West Coast agricultural workers to demand for equal wages in the 1930s. By 1965, Itliong was leading the AFL–CIO union Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and helped organize the Delano Grape Strike. The Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and National Farm Workers Association merged to form the powerful United Farm Workers in 1966. In 2010, California State University, Dominguez Hills honored Itliong with a mural.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (OCTOBER 11, 1884 – NOVEMBER 7, 1962)
Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest American serving First lady of the United States. She advocated for gender equality, civil rights for African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of WWII refugees. In addition, she served as the United Nations’ first delegates and became the first chair of the UN Commission and Human Rights. Roosevelt has been recognized as “one of the most esteemed women in the world.”