Beyond the Mexican Mural utilizes Los Angeles Resources as
Mural Capital of the World. This Course Is A Studio Class, Intended To
Explore Muralism As A Method Of Community Education, Development And
Empowerment. Issues Are Explored Through The Development Of A Large
Scale Collaborative painting For Placement In A Community.This course
is taught in a community setting at the SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE
CENTER’S (SPARC) mural studios in Venice California. 10 Minutes from
campus. Students will be researching, designing, working with
community participants, and installing permanent mural which will be
placed on the University Elementary school site.
The UES Mural Gets a Protective Coating - June 6th 2009
The UES Mural Project Installed In Situ - April 30th 2009
Currently Being Installed: The UES Mural Project
Students Visit the UCLA Lab Site to Clean, Restore and Protect Previous Murals
UCLA Students Participate in Shared Experiences Exercise: Building a Mural Team
The Exercise: the intention of the exercise is to take a group of strangers
and facilitate sharing of personal histories, move into affinity groups of common
experience and create an artistic representation of the commonly held
experience. Students wrote 10 moments of epiphany as part of the Shared Experience exercise.
The Students formed groups which then created presentations that interpreted their collective experiences.
Beyond the Mexican Mural Students Begin the UES Hip Hop Mural
On Thursday, January 15, Students in the Beyond the Mexican Mural course visited the UCLA University Elementary School at the invitation of the school as part of research for an on-site mural. The 25 ft mural will be featured at the heart of the school and will focus in on 6th grade students' hip hop dance class as a theme. UES 6th graders performed their hip hop dance routines during the DML students' visit to the site.
The students performed in a cypher, the circular formation that surrounds performers and battlers.
Beyond the Mexican Mural
