Art historian Luis Vargas-Santiago discusses Mexico's early 20th century mural movement and how it inspired a very different mural movement in the United States.

Vargas, a graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin, has spent the summer in D.C. as a Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Interview shot at Malcolm X Park in Washington, D.C., August 15, 2013

Additional photos of murals by Mexican artist, Roberto Cueva del Rio at the Mexican Cultural Institute; and murals in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods by local artists Jorge Somarriba and Karla "Karlisma" Rodas. Mural photos by Ivan Mendizabal.

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