Tag: Art
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Artistic Expression: A Method of Peace
My name is Dylan Anderson. My pronouns are he/him and they/them. I identify as a biracial, transgender person of colour, but I mainly identify as an artist. Most times I use paint as well as other kinetic mediums when I create my art, but I also use photography and other digital mediums to express my…
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Mural Artists Partner With City Heights Businesses
The first Mural Walk invited people to view mural art highlighting the beauty and diversity of City Heights artists, residents and businesses. Business owner Tysheen Mosley of Sunset Kava says the murals bring creativity, community and beauty. Artists looking for opportunities to bring something good into the community found business owners that welcomed their creativity.…
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Youth Reclaim Public Space From Gangs With Mural
In partnership with the Karen Organization, The AjA Project ran a nine-month program with young Southeast Asian refugee women called Photographers for Change (P4C). During the program, 15 Karen participants, ages 13 to 18 years old,in City Heights and Los Angeles’ historic Filipinotown used photography to reflect on their experiences of migration and resettlement, explore…
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Family Tradition Survives In Mural Project
The “Community Faces” mural at Market Creek Plaza in southeastern San Diego has come down and will be replaced with a new one showing faces of younger community members. But in one family, the tradition will carry on. | Video Credit: Nic McVicker, KPBS By Claire Trageser The “Community Faces” mural at Market Creek Plaza…
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The AjA Project to Confront Migrant Debate With Airport Mural
The AjA Project interviews and photographs a refugee woman living in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego in this undated photo. | Photo Courtesy of The AjA Project By Megan Burks With the fatal terrorist attack in San Bernardino Wednesday and the massacre in Paris earlier this month, Americans are taking a hard look…