EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The City of El Paso’s Public Art Program celebrates its 100th completed project with the unveiling of a new mural at Marty Robbins Recreation Center on Wednesday, July 15.
“Guardians of the Southwest” is a mural created by local artists Ivan Ortega, Miguel Picos and Julian Vidales. According to the City of El Paso, all three muralists are also high school art teachers.
The mural displays a lot of El Paso and Southwest motifs, such as a Mexican wolf, plants native of the Chihuahuan Desert, the Star on the Mountain and an homage to Luis Jimenez’s “Los Lagartos” sculpture in Downtown El Paso.
“We wanted to naturally wanted to incorporate a lot of things that represent El Paso,” Vidales said…