Lee spent the month of July working with young mural painters Oscar Mendia (right) and Carlos Rosas.
In Franciscan Monastery in Tarata, Oscar painted a group of Franciscans leaving this monastery 100 years ago for six months of travel to teach in distant pueblos. The actual faded photos of departing missionaries are a little different. They depict horse-mounted bands of Franciscans wearing wide-brimmed hats, boots and ponchos - rough riders with bibles.
The long tradition of using painting to educate is still vibrant here. Consider this downtown mural that Oscar did.
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