Public Art- Jazmine Garcia

 Art Within our Surroundings

Public Art is beautiful and is what brings life into the community. Art is creative inspiration that is painted and marked on our walls. Through the eyes of many talented locals we can see stories of the community, the history of the building along with learning about what different cultures are in the community. Art comes in many forms such as graffiti/murals/and sculptures. Within the city of East Los Angeles there are several pieces of art that standout and represent the community and the diversity within it. 


“We Believe”

                                    Location: N Marianna Ave Los Angeles CA 90063 

                                        Artist: Paul Botello

                                        Theme: Chican@/Diversity/Union


In this mural placed on the front side of the school of Esteban Torres High School, lies a detailed piece that captures the struggles and dreams of immigrant parents and children along with protesters of the Black Lives Matter protest and graduates. This piece sends a very powerful message full message being in an area where most of the community is Hispanic and are immigrants this piece demonstrates and represents the students and many families. Connecting their own background stories to the mural above. It shows a timeline where the students became defenders and used their voice to protect the ones they love, through protesting and the there studies. Being from low class and middle class families,  graduating and making it into bigger things in this big city. 

                                                        “East Los Angeles”
                                Location: S Ditman Ave Los Angeles CA 90063

                                Artist: Tapia.323 on Instagram

                                Theme: Chicano background/religion

This is a new mural that the artist Tapia.323 has been working on for the past month and a half. Capturing all the small significant places that you can see throughout the community such as 1st Street Burgers, lost of LA Dodger fans, a tourist spot where you can find boots, pottery, clothing and lots of Hispanic goodies called ‘El Mercado De Los Angeles’ also know as ‘El Mercadito’. Growing up in East LA and seeing that there are artists that love and are very connected to my community makes me happy. The man with the churro cart in the image has been a part of the community as long as I can remember. Since when i was a student in Belvedere Elementary the ‘ Churro Guy’ has been around selling churros 4 for 1$. Within East LA majority of the population carries a religious background, where you will see lots of images of our ‘Lady of Guadalupe’ and ‘Jesus Christ’. 

Proposal:

From all the murals that I saw in my community, they all have a similar connection as it mainly involves the Chicano/hispanic community. Having a bit of an Aztec part of art that you normally see in Hispanic house holds. I liked to see that I am able to connect to the murals around my community just like everybody else. I believe that there can be more murals placed on the side of small business going down on 1st Street in Los Angeles. As new buildings are being reconstructed I believe this is a great opportunity to use the new buildings as canvases to create new inspiration for the future generations. 


                                        


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