Our People

Item Overview

Title

Our People

Creator

Yepes, George (American muralist and painter, 1955)
Valadez, John (American muralist, born 1951)
Sakai, Rod
Callejo, Carlos (American muralist, born 1930)
Limón, Leo
Carrasco, Barbara, 1955-
Avila, Glenna Boltuch (American muralist, born 1953)

Photographer

Tovar, Nancy

Date Created

1978

Collection

Nancy Tovar Murals of East L.A. Collection

Notes

Description

This mural is the second to occupy this same wall. In about 1974 Frank Romero covered 200 square feet with a whimsical spray can heart. In 1978 the Citywide Mural Project brought together several artists to paint OUR PEOPLE (70' x 16'). Among those involved were John Valadez, Barbara Carrasco, Glenna Boltuch (Avila), Carlos Callejo, Leo Lim¢n, George Yepes, and Rod Sakai. In the early 1980s that mural was destroyed when new earthquake codes required Payless Shoes to add steel H-beams and make other improvements to its unreinforced masonry building.

Physical Description

Extent

1 slide

Keywords

Genre

slides (photographs)

Subjects

photography -- California -- Los Angeles
photography -- Mexican American
photography -- Chicano
Chicano archives
documentary photography
Chicano artists--California--Los Angeles County

Longitude

34.046655

Latitude

-118.207984

Resource type

still image