Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Los Angeles looking a murals- more deeply- Hearing on city policy today

Today January 10th, 2012 at Los Angeles City Hall, United Painters And Public Artists, UPPA will join the community in an open hearing to look at the role murals and mural makers have in the city's history and future.

The LA City Council has calendared the hearing on a new ordinance at 1 pm, at LA City Hall, Room 1020, in 200 N. Spring St., Los Angeles CA 90012. Visitors can take public transportation or drive down and use affordable city parking lots nearby.

After meeting last Friday to help people learn about the proposed ordinance, at Tia Chucha's at 7 pm, 13197 Gladstone Avenue in Sylmar. Organizers to learn about UPPA and the ordinance can text 310-490-0012.

The issues are swirling- with no funding for California Digital Studio Arts Partnerships to create learning centers, closing art classes, past policies from mayors and cultural development committees that supported LA's role as a leader in fine arts murals and in independent artists, there is a need to protect muralists and fine arts and make distinctions about vandalism, art commissions, signage, and super signage-advertising, and property.

Mayor Riordan encouraged children to use design as a path to careers. Dr. Susan Sheridan would say that scribbling is a direct route to brain development. Professors David Cuatt teaches about fonts, type, printing history and bookmaking at Pasadena City College. Whatever the result of tonight's meeting, many industries converge between a mark on a page and reports on the role of design, print chemistry, computer software, games, animation, large format printing, textile and clothing innovation, fine art, signage, and music, video, book, and commercial design. LAEDC has done many reports about the role cultural tourism produces in the LA Economy and the role Design plays historically in California from the scribbles that became Disney Hall to the characters that became Mickey Mouse.

Claudia Walde in her book about "Street Fonts from Around the World- Graffitti Alphabets" by Thames & Hudson features artists from New York, Paris, Munich, Toulouse, Basel, Prague, Moscow, Koblenz, Rio De Janiero, Pirna, Shanghai, Zwolle, Inowroclaw, Wiesbaden, Valladolid, Melbourne, London, Dresden, Atlanta, Zurich, Adelaide, Auckland, Seoul, Sofia, Copenhagen, Halle, Strasbourg, Tokyo, Los Angeles are included. Clearly the discussion of LA Valley College's History Wall Mural to public art are vital to younger tourists and to remembering the role that the arts have played in creating colorful neighborhoods, in remodeling open spaces, in technology development, the backgrounds behind the scenes that have created many options such as crew jobs, theater jobs, and small production company and costume rental jobs.

2-D art decorates clothing, and has evolved into new 3 D autocad and ncics careers that connect math, science, and the massive calculations that render concepts into prototypes or finished goods. These applications have led to new products, technologies, and services for theater and show business and event promoters, caterers, churches and synagogues, and have facilitated jewelry, boat and car, food, and cuisine design, as well as clothed actors, artists, models. With microprocessors, hand-held peripherals, new cameras and scanners and other office and industrial equipment, hobbyists can go to tradeschools, universities, and community colleges to learn how they can take part in Los Angeles' new economic recovery. Women are putting their hands into the new processes in chemical and manufacturing, photography, type, and innovations in new greener processes for screen printing, lithography, and even cake printing. The SBA has new programs for contracts that arise for design, manufacturing, printing, and publishing activities.

It is too easy to forget that the Verdugo One Stop, VEDC, a community art program, and drawing can lead to businesses that design wallets to wall designs. Muralists, patrons, teachers, young artists, and lifestyle industries welcome some deeper looks into clean up v.s. criminalisation when it comes to renegade to commissioned art. Gentrification and city contracts can corrupt the ideas of small and themed neighborhoods that City Planner, Robert Scott encouraged. Cities like London have suffered as well as the San Fernando Valley for cutting art classes and allowing community centers to fail during tough times.

Perhaps the City can look at creating entrepreneurial and sales options for foster youth like mural postcards or neighborhood council tee shirts in tandem with PCC. Perhaps in the process of building a new ordinance, high school ROP students could use their vocational arts skills and develop their student portfolios?

Graffitti needs a place for community self-expression in a metropolis. Some localities have allowed an open wall painting area near their skateboarding areas.

Process doesn't happen all at once and young people need places to hone their craft, be mentored by teachers and colleagues, this ordinance that focuses on visual and fine artists and their contributions to LA's graphic design history. This echos in a city wide exhibition now featured at the Getty named Pacific Standard Time, Art in LA 1945-1980. This battle between developers, agencies, artists, and buyers is important, because who are we if we don't support art? Just another city, certainly not the famous megacity that brought us musicals, animation, records, studios, dolby, pixar/disney and the like. A little competition is flattery. Vision to allow new businesses to sprout and create ateliers, mentorships, and new products may just be the right prescription. Please come to City Hall to express your opinion. Public Art in the depression created jobs and made our libraries and post offices more beautiful. The bigger question is how to use public space and how to make it supportive of the whole community, not just contract holders, but leave room for innovation. Hopefully, the group gathering will be eloquent in describing everything from decorative art to political murals and how they engage the spirit, inspire visitors, and keep working artists eating. Get there and put your name on the speakers list. From Kathleen Milnes "Dancing Digits" to LA Creates and the nitty gritty of today's discussion, there's a lot of catching up to do. Let's keep making LA, the place that innovates and inspires the world.

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http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html

Cynthyny Lebo

Director

New Education Options, Inc

Sherman Oaks, CA

First Url: art is part of la's culture

Second Url: otis report on creative culture