Save LA Murals: USC Graduate Yu Gu PSA Video for SPARC

USC Student Yu Gu produced this video for SPARC and our saveLAmurals.org campaign as part of a class project back in 2008. The story is as relevant today as it was then. The saga continues as we strive to save one mural at a time. Help SPARC by investing in our Mural Maintenance Trust Fund, so we can hire the original artist, hire youth, pay for paints, brushes, scaffolding, etc. and bring back the mural vibrancy that made LA the mural capital of the world.
Contact:
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
685 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291
310/822-9560
http://www.sparcmurals.org
SPARC: Creating Sites of Public Memory Since 1976

SPARC Founder/Artistic Director UCLA Professor Judy Baca writes this about muralism:
· A mural is not an easel painting made large. A mural is a work of art created in "relatedness"
· "Relatedness to the architecture" in which it is placed,
· To the people for whom it is painted,
· Related to those who lift the brushes to help paint it.
· It is a choreographed dance between team members, community residences, and street life.
· At their best, muralists pass brushes between hands in precise poetic marks without individual distinction. Where one hand ends another begins.
· A mural's scale transforms place, immerses the viewer in color, amplifies community voice,
· A mural's compositional lines draw the body of the unsuspecting passerby, into the painting, by the solar plexus, yanking on his heart...
· Murals sing gospel from our streets and.... preach to us about who we can be,
· What we fear, and to what we can aspire.
· In their highest moments, murals can reveal to us what is hidden,
· Challenge the prevailing dialogues,
· Transform people's lives; exercise our most important rights of free speech
· And indeed be the catalysts for change in difficult times.
· Times such as these....

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Education

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• Judy Baca
• SPARC
• Eloy Torrez
• Murals
• Los Angeles Murals
• Tagged Murals

[fruitlooplupe]

how can anybody tag over these murals with meaningless tags? god gives u a gift to draw and create a painting and u throw it away on meaningless tagging. come on young people  have respect 4 those who are truly gifted.