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Name of Applicant: Heritage Museum of Orange County Award Amount: Category: Average Score: $6,210 Organization 87.4-4 th Organization's description of Project: "Celebrating Santa Ana: History, Heritage, Culture, Art, and Education" project will bring Santa Ana artists, Santa Ana students, and Santa Ana residents together to develop a mural that emphasizes and depicts the rich cultural heritage of the city and workshops that documents the process from conceptualization to final product of the process. The mural will capture two historic milestones of Santa Ana. First, the 150th anniversary of the founding of Santa Ana in 1869 and the 130th anniversary of Santa Ana Unified School District. Organization is based in Santa Ana and proposes to use grant funds to provide arts and culture programming in Ward 6. Organization's proposed use of funds: "Celebrating Santa Ana: History, Heritage, Culture, Art, and Education" project will bring Santa Ana artists, Santa Ana students, and Santa Ana residents together to develop a mural that emphasizes and depicts the rich cultural heritage of the city and workshops that documents the process from conceptualization to final product of the process. Over the past two years, Heritage Museum has collected data and ideas from community residents, museum stakeholders, and community partners of what they envision the mural to represent. The final mural product will be a amalgamation of two Santa Ana celebrations; Santa Ana Unified School District celebrating 130 years (2018) and City of Santa Ana celebrating 150 years (2019). Our theme of History, Heritage, Culture, Art, and Education will weave the mosaic of layers of Santa Ana into a 15' Height X 80' Length mural located at Heritage Museum (Ward 6). The layers will include natural history (plant habitats and wildlife habits), mixed in with cultural history dating back to Indigenous Tongva to present day city cultural life, and incorporating Santa Ana Unified school history profiling landscapes, buildings, and educator and student profiles. The unique location of Heritage Museum is home to many layers of cultural history such as the Pas Benga (Tongva village) to Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana to Gospel Swamp and much more. Utilizing Heritage Museum's educational model, the project will consist of Artist Educators working with Student Artists from Godinez High School visual and graphic design and photography students. This is confirmed through our community partner at Santa Ana Unified School District with Robyn McNair. Robyn has helped organize the Boca de Oro Literacy Festival in downtown Santa Ana the past couple years and turning SAUSD into a premier arts school district in the county. Our mentor artists will be the experienced coalition of muralists from Orange County Fine Arts Studio. The muralists have made their mark around Santa Ana at various locations throughout downtown and Ward 1. The artists will work collaboratively with our students and community residents in the conceptualization process through completion of the mural. Led by a series of 8 workshops by our muralists, students will learn theory and history of murals, composition (large format painting, basic weight lines), and the final workshops focus on creation of the mural including use of materials. Heritage Museum of Orange County 1 of 3