SAN DIEGO
A renowned San Diego artist who watched in September as an excavator demolished his 32-year-old mural at a Logan Heights school has sued San Diego Unified School District and a construction company over the artwork’s destruction.
Salvador Roberto Torres painted the mural in the late 1980s on an outdoor wall at Memorial Preparatory School. The 75-by-45-foot artwork depicted diverse students, graduates, veterans of World War I and Sharon “Christa” McAuliffe, who died in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
The campus is undergoing construction to transform the elementary and middle school into a K-12 complex. The building with Torres’ mural was torn down Sept. 23.
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Artist of destroyed Barrio Logan school mural sues San Diego Unified
The artist of a mural at a Barrio Logan school that was destroyed during a construction project is suing San Diego Unified School District, saying the work could have been preserved.
Posted at 11:26 AM, Feb 26, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-26 20:59:24-05
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â The artist of a mural at a Barrio Logan school that was destroyed during a construction project is suing San Diego Unified School District, saying the work could have been preserved.
In a lawsuit filed this week, artist Salvador Roberto Torres alleged that he only found out the district planned to destroy the mural he created at Memorial Junior High School as part of ongoing improvements to the campus not long before it was removed on Sept. 23, 2020.