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.
More than a century after its founding in 1909, the California Art Club is still fighting the good fight as part of L.A.'s art history.
With help from Cheech Marin, a university in a traditionally conservative Virginia town looks at the murals of Los Angeles for a lesson in Chicano/a art.
The Echo Park mural has gone through three lives since its original completion in 1991.
Artists have often used Skid Row as source material, using the theme that the status of its residents doesn't change.
Painter and museum educator Sandy Rodriguez shares that experience of creating the interior mural at the The América Tropical Interpretive Center in a guest editorial.
April 2013 is filled with random news of street art, murals, and how they fit in public space. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.
The cross will stay on the stoic hill as an early form of public art that supports the idea that California culture was defined by Father Junipero Serra.
This month, for the first time in thirty years, a Millard Sheets mosaic is being installed.
Eight artists, selected from 400 applicants, will make the rail system a visual engagement between people and place.
When one takes a closer look at murals through a photograph, it shows how they share space with the immediate environment -- and begins to resemble early 20th century photo-montage collage.
Here are a dozen news and notes about street art and murals from the month of March, 2013.
The major work at the L.A. Central Library that has survived grime, two arson fires, and budget cuts, is not getting much attention on its 80th Anniversary.