Session will Consider Concerns Expressed about Six of the Historic Murals
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA) is holding a public forum on Monday, October 30, from
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Ronald Reagan Building/ International Trade
Center at 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC. The
event will be held in the Polaris Room, located on the concourse level.
Persons interested in attending should contact Gary Porter at (202)
205-7766 or gary.porter@gsa.gov.
The Forum is being conducted to consider concerns that have been raised
about six murals in the Ariel Rios Federal Building, located adjacent to
the Reagan Building. The objections to the murals focus on their depiction
of Native Americans in scenes related to the delivery of the U.S. Mail on
the American Frontier. These murals were painted for the Ariel Rios
Building at the time of its construction in 1934 to house the headquarters
of the U.S. Postal Service. It now serves as part of the headquarters
complex for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Panelists participating in the event include Paul Chatt Smith and Rayna
Green, curators with the Smithsonian Institution; Hilde Hein, visiting
scholar at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Resource Center; B.
Byron Price, director of the Charles M. Russell Center; Connie Kieffer, a
member of the board of the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt
University; Sharyn Udall, professor of art history at the University of New
Mexico; and Robert Weinstein, a principal in the architectural firm
Architrave. The panel session will be moderated by Mary Case, co-founder of
Quality Management to a Higher Power.
This public forum is part of a comprehensive consultation process under
Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. For additional
information on the consultation process and for pictures of the murals
please visit the following Web site: http://www.gsa.gov/arielriosmurals.
SOURCE U.S. General Services Administration, National Capital
Region
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Related links:
http://www.gsa.gov
http://www.gsa.gov/arielriosmurals
CONTACT:
Michael McGill of U.S. General Services
Administration, National Capital Region, +1-202-205-1624
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