October 26, 2007

At City College of San Francisco, an Artistic Treasure Is on the Syllabus

By CAROLYN MOONEY

Seeing the big picture wasn't exactly a problem for Diego Rivera. But it can be a challenge for students in Jana Zanetto's ESL speech class at the City College of San Francisco. So she regularly brings them to see the Mexican artist's enormous "Pan American Unity" mural, which was painted in 1940 and stretches across a theater lobby on the college's main campus. Revered as a campus treasure and often used as a teaching tool, the five-panel mural spans centuries of history and culture, and

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