Artist Martina Gangle, 1906-1994, led an extraordinary life as an artist, political activist and community organizer. Gangle grew up in a family of migrant agricultural labor. During the 1930s, she worked as a WPA artist, during which she created two murals in tempera for Portland’s Rose City Park Elementary School, “The Columbia River Pioneer Migration” (1940). Gangle later worked as a welder in the Vanport shipyards. More info on her life and career is at http://www.ochcom.org/gangle/.
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