Los Paseos Mural Pilot Project
What is the Mural Pilot Program?
As part of the implementation of the Historic Whittier Boulevard Revitalization Plan, The City identified 15 low-cost, high-benefit early implementation quick-build projects to catalyze the transformation of the area. As one of those projects, the Mural Pilot Project will contract professional artists with strong experience in managing community art programs to help recruit, train, and mentor locally based artists. Together, the professional and local artists will develop conceptual themes, solicit, capture, and integrate stakeholder input, refine alternatives, paint the final murals, produce media content and support a public unveiling event.
Where will the murals be located?
The initial phase of this project has targeted the following City-owned facilities. The project will beautify Speedway Alley and two City-owned surface parking lots by including drought resistant landscaping, pedestrian lighting, road resurfacing, wayfinding and informational signage, hydration stations, and bicycle repair stations and parking. Combined, the Mural Project and Paseos will transform the alleys into lively neighborhood paseos that enable community-oriented programing and promote economic development by offering outdoor dining and recreation opportunities for local businesses.
- The IDEA Lab building – 9201 E Whittier Boulevard
- Public Parking Lot – 4944 Lindsey Avenue
- Public Parking Lot – 4944 Deland Avenue
Featured Artists
Man One’s art is comprised of his trademark bold, colorful art strokes and has been featured in ten solo shows, countless group exhibitions, and curated well over a hundred. His work has been exhibited in many museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The Getty, Pasadena Museum of California Art, LACMA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, Parco Museum in Tokyo and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Learn more on his website: https://manone.com/
Magallanes is a Los Angeles-based artist working with painting, sculpture, and mixed media. His artwork is informed by the cultural and social elements of his upbringing in a Mexican-American barrio east of downtown Los Angeles.
Magallanes’ work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Museo CEART de Baja California Mexicali, Mexico, the National Museum of Mexican American Art in Chicago, Illinois, the McNay Museum in San Antonio, Texas, Las Cruces Museum of Art in Las Cruces, New Mexico and is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California. Read more on his website: https://oscarmagallanes.com/blog/arte
More information on this project coming soon!
