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Changing Murals
View two changing murals on Art Is Everywhere. One vanishes as another is resurrected with a new design.
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Robert Dafford
Robert Dafford, born in 1951, has been doing murals for more than 30 years. He studied art at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and interrupted his art work to serve three years as a naval illustrator and draftsman during the Vietnam War. His first mural was a rainbow trout painted in 1969 for a fish market. He now has painted nearly 300 murals around the world. Several are in New Orleans. One prominent location is on the corner of Girod and Magazine streets. This depicts a horse-drawn coffee wagon of the Reilly Coffee Company. Another striking mural is the 150 foot tall clarinet on the side of the Holiday…