CHARLES MCGEE.

Rubello meets his friend Charles McGee at Arts & Crafts when he is 15 and McGee is 26.

The Detroit artist and 2008 Kresge eminent artist , born 1924, co-directs New Detroit Inc.'s Living With Art Program in the early 1970s. His lost, 20' x 25' mural, painted on the side of a hair salon at Wyoming and Curtis in 1972, is the first work created under the auspices of Living With Art.10

His untitled downtown geometric mural (commissioned by New Detroit, Inc. in 1974 for an international energy conference), though compromised and fading, remains.

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