Atlanta-based artist, curator and activist Monica Campana co-founded Living Walls, the public art program that has brought more than 100 street art projects and the work of local, women and non-binary artists to neighborhoods across Atlanta. She moved to the United States from Peru at 15. And, initially, hated it here.
Then a teacher handed her a book about Frida Kahlo.
“Frida … I don’t think that I would be here if it wasn’t because of her and her art,” Campana said. “… my art teacher, she saw me struggling and she was like, ‘You should know about this artist.’ And I still have the book that this teacher gave me.”
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