As a great admirer of CPB and PBS, I have really enjoyed the Ken Burns series on Hemingway, but as a retired professor and author of a biography of the Mexican artist Siqueiros, I would like to encourage you to increase the diversity of subjects as well as film makers. Since the American Masters series includes films on Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, two of the great three Mexican muralists, why not an American Masters production on Siqueiros, who painted three murals in Los Angeles and who has had a great impact on contemporary American artists, including Pollock, but also many contemporary American muralists of all colors? There is plenty of archival footage, the Getty Institute and the city of Los Angeles have spent millions on restoring Siqueiros's murals in LA and Lorena Manriquez produced Siqueiros, Walls of Passion recently shown on public TV. The life and work of David Alfaro Siqueiros is a great story and his ideas and innovations in art deserve recognition. Thank you. D. Anthony White, Ph.D.
Diversity
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April, 2021
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CPB serves as the steward of the federal appropriation for public media and does not produce, broadcast or distribute programming. CPB is also prohibited from interfering with editorial or programming decisions. You may wish to provide feedback to American Masters directly: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/feedback/
As you noted, in September 2020, Siqueiros: Walls of Passion premiered on WORLD Channel, a public television broadcast channel that is also available to stream online. The film is a co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB). The WORLD Channel, ITVS and LPB all receive direct funding support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. These and other CPB-funded initiatives help the public media system reflect the diversity of our nation and stations' local communities through the content they develop and the voices and stories they feature. For more information about CPB’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please visit our website:
https://www.cpb.org/diverseaudiences