Martín Moreno, a nationally known muralist and co-owner of a Phoenix gallery, is part of a group that plans to launch a Latino cultural center. “It's kind of embarrassing (that Phoenix doesn't have such a cultural center in place),” he says.
When Elizabeth Gauna closed the Museo Chicano in January, it wasn't just the end of a small Phoenix museum.
It left a city of 1.5 million people, 40 percent of them of Hispanic descent, without a Latino art museum.
While major Latino museums have sprung up in big cities, including Long Beach, Calif.; Albuquerque; and San Antonio, Phoenix has lagged behind. READ FULL STORY
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