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    Echo Park Film Center celebrates 10 years of cinema and love

    Paolo Davanzo was looking for a place to teach affordable film and media arts classes to youth when he came across an Echo Park storefront on Alvarado near Sunset Boulevard.  Here, a decade ago, Davanzo co-founded  the Echo Park Film Center, where students are taught how to tell stories using film and video, and a [...]

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    Highland Park art project falls into foreclosure

    Earlier this year artists and residents gathered to celebrate the transformation of a worn out Highland Park bungalow into a giant canvas covered with colorful images of birds and volcanoes.  The colorful  images painted as part of an international art project reflected the Nicaraguan homeland of the Zuniga family, who lived in the  110-year-old Marmion [...]

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    Hermon Dog Park may have finally found its artistic mascot

    The Friends of Hermon Dog Park have been trying for several years now to build a dog-centric sculpture for the freeway-adjacent dog park. But, after watching two previously approved projects fall through, the group has high hopes for its third selection, an approximately five-foot-high sculpture called “Hermon the Ball” (pictured). Renderings of the proposed sculpture [...]

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    Rain did not dampen enthusiasm for Northeast L.A.’s arts tour

    Photos by Martha Benedict Despite a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon, an estimated 650 people attended this year’s Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour, according to the L.A. Times.  Arts and crafts were displayed at about 60 locations, ranging from the Audubon Center at Debs Park to private homes and artist’s studios.  Martha Benedict was there [...]

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    Dinosaurs strike a pose for Eagle Rock’s painter of light

    Eagle Rock graphic artist and photographer Darren Pearson has combined his fascination with prehistoric creatures  and a relatively new art form called light painting to create images of  dinosaurs posed across modern-day Los Angeles.  The 28-year-old Pearson uses the LED light emitted by a key chain to “paint” or “draw” lines in the air as [...]

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    Day of the Dead celebrated at East L.A. College

    What better place to hold a Día de los Muretos celebration than at a museum named after horror movie star Vincent Price?   Students from a Chicano Studies class presented 13 altars as part of the annual celebration and exhibition at the Vincent Price Museum at East Los Angeles College.   The altars, including one which [...]

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    Artist returns to revive an Eagle Rock mural

    Story and photos by Nate Nickels Artist Roger Dolin spent much of last week under a scorching sun, working to restore the graffiti-scarred mural he had painted seven years ago on an Eagle Rock stairway off Figueroa Street. If things go as planned, Dolin will today finish repairing and repainting the mural depicting people practicing [...]

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    At least it’s not New York: Museum director says Eastside rents are still a bargain for artists

    Rising rents over the years have pushed out many Echo Park and Silver Lake artists, some of whom have migrated north to Cypress Park and Highland Park or east to Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights in search of affordable places to live and work.  But Jeffrey Deitch, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art [...]

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    Cal State L.A. honors Chicano artist and alum who took 50 years to earn his degree

    An aspiring Boyle Heights artist named Frank Romero began his college education in 1959 as part  of the first freshman class at the newly built Cal State L.A. campus on the edge of El Sereno. But Romero was not present when the Class of 1963 graduated. Instead, Romero left school to become a pioneering Chicano [...]

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    Echo Park artist draws attention to the Eastside music scene

    By Lea Lion It’s no mystery why Echo Park is a favorite setting for detective novels. There is something about ramshackle Victorian and Craftsman-era architecture combined with the soundtrack of modern-day gang battles that just screams whodunit.  But while Echo Park has its share of squats, hideouts and business fronts, the pint-size chocolate brown structure [...]

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    Highland Park blacksmith nails it

    When it came time to restore the imposing front doors of  the Lummis Home, the century-old Highland Park residence of author Charles Fletcher Lummis,  one of the many jobs included replacing damaged or missing iron nails that had been hammered into the doors cut from yellow pine and red birch.  The need to be historically [...]

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    Eagle Rock artist’s paintings ignite collector and police interest

    Eagle Rock plein artist Alex Schaefer is accustomed to having passersby take a peak at this canvas as he paints outdoors. But last month the visitors included a pair of LAPD officers who showed up as Schaefer stood on a Van Nuys sidewalk with easel and brushes painting a depiction of the local  Chase bank [...]

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    Eagle Rock musician rocks to a global Spanish beat

    Eagle Rock resident Jose Hernandez came to Los Angeles from Spain nearly a decade ago to study electric guitar and pursue his dream of a career in the music business. The guitarist and singer eventually joined and became the lead singer for Sonsoles, a “global musical” ensemble  with members hailing from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, [...]

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    Bands and venues prepare for a weekend without Sunset Junction festival*

    The failure of Sunset Junction festival organizers to get city permits to hold this weekend’s massive street and music fair has left bands, ticket sellers and other scrambling to figure out what to do if the event is officially cancelled.”We are still waiting to hear the official word,” said Neil Schield of Echo Park’s Origami [...]

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    Former TV anchorman turns camera on Frogtown artists

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    Remembering a Chicano artist named Magú

    His real name was Gilbert Lujan, a pioneering Chicano artist and muralist from East L.A. who was among the first Chicano artists to be exhibited at the L.A. County Museum of Art in a 1974 show titled “Los Four.”  Lujan died last month at age 70 after a long career as an artist, educator and [...]

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