Ed Fuentes
Ed Fuentes is a cultural journalist who has been covering the Inland Empire, the High Desert, and downtown Los Angeles for KCET since 2010. He lived in downtown Los Angeles for 13 years before moving to Las Vegas, where he covers regional art, including murals and street art, at painthisdesert.com. He tweets at @viewfromaloft.
The proposed ordinance would allow murals to be created legally on private property.
Artists are becoming writers as they overlay image with bold type that allows the environment to say something with the brevity of a tweet.
In a determined and continued burst to revamp murals commissioned during the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, the Mural Conservancy announced today restoration on "Galileo, Jupiter, Apollo" has begun.
Collector Ed Sweeney collaborated with the Getty to assemble a monumental "piece-book" that represents the works of regional graffiti artists.
Ed Fuentes tells his personal stories of Casa Blanca, a 16-block barrio in Riverside, where he grew up, through digital mural works that are now on display at the Riverside Art Museum.
Here are a few mural- and public art-related stories we like to tag in our Monthly Mural Wrap up for June, 2013.
Sheets' public art projects can be seen throughout the country.
A group of educators attending a conference wanted to see Los Angeles through its murals.
The ordinance's main purpose: to move art out from under the rules of signs, and be administered in Cultural Affairs, not Building and Safety.
The summer public tour will be held on the first Thursdays of July, August, and September.
If the stage production of "Zoot Suit" made El Pachuco the flag bearer of identity, its poster became the garrison flag.
May 2013 saw more murals coming, then going. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.