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The paint stroke marked the beginning of the live exhibition. Chavez’s face looms large between that of labor leader Dolores Huerta and the poet-boxer Rodolfo “Gorky” Fernandez, the first piece of eight that will go from LACMA to the existing mural upon completion. For the mural's expansion, the team is working again with historians on how best to depict the city's Chicano and Black Power movements that she lived through.