‘Bound to come down’: Cesar Chavez inspired Phoenix artist to create a statue. Now he’s reckoning with taking it down – and what should replace it

PHOENIX — Phoenix artist Zarco Guerrero was inspired by Cesar Chavez – in his life and in his art.

“He was not only my role model, but for my whole generation,” Guerrero said on this weekend’s “Sunday Square Off.”

Guerrero sculpted a bronze statue of Chavez in the late ‘90s that is the centerpiece of a large art installation at the City of Phoenix park that bears Chavez’s name…

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