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April 26, 2021 To: Frank J. Gutierrez, Chair, Art and Culture Commission, Tram Le, City of Santa Ana Art Specialist Members of the Arts Commission and the City Council of (Santa Ana/Orange County cities) Anaheim; Garden Grove; Fountain Valley; Irvine; Costa Mesa; Tustin; Orange; Huntington Beach, From: Eva@georgeyepes.com - Academia de Arte Yepes Re: FREE ART CLASSES FOR SANTA ANA AREA SPECIAL PROJECT PARTICIPANTS: Responding to recent requests from numerous (Santa Ana/Orange County) government and community members for George Yepes and the Academia de Arte Yepes (Yepes/Academia Yepes) to provide Free Professional Development Interdisciplinary Cultural Arts classes (Free Classes) for local (Santa Ana/Orange County) area inner-city youth and young adults that have been disproportionally affected by the 2020/2021 pandemic. This Special Arts Project (The Project) is not only timely but essential for the healing, social rebuilding, and community beautification, of the (Santa Ana/Orange County cities) Special Project area. The large artworks created through (The Project) will depict (Santa Ana/Orange County cities) positive themes. GEOGRAPHICAL TARGET AREA: (Santa Ana/Orange County cities) LOCATION OF FREE CLASSES: (City and location to be determined) (Santa Ana/Orange County cities) SANTA ANA SPECIAL PROJECT TIMELINE - SUMMER 2021: (June 1, 2021 through September 1, 2021) PROJECT HISTORY: In 1993, the Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) declared imperative a national mandate to generate renewed interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The national mandate directed NASA employees to reach out to communities nationwide to cultivate projects that would inspire the next generations of space explorers. Responding to this national mandate, (Yepes/Academia Yepes), through innovation, combined their high - standards based interdisciplinary curriculum with the engineering of large scale Space murals, to excite, challenge, and inspire students to excel in their school studies: The result was the first Free Professional Development Interdisciplinary Cultural Arts Program for youth titled: "'Phe Marriage of Art, Science, and Technology". Beginning with the Cassini Mission to Saturn, and the Pathfinder/Global Surveyor Missions to Mars, and in partnership with NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Agenzia Spaziale Italians, (Yepes/Academia Yepes) completed 10 large science and space murals for NASA, including several murals for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA; and another mural for the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, FL. Later, (Yepes/Academia Yepes) embarked on a 14-year journey to provide free high -standard based interdisciplinary Mural Painting classes that challenged inner-city youth. Since 1993, (Yepes/Academia Yepes) have successfully completed interdisciplinary cultural arts projects for numerous cities including: Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and San Antonio. These constructive civic projects have merged diversity, education, healing, social rebuilding, innovation, and community beautification. (Images attached below). More images at: http5://www.georgeyepes.com/academia-de-ante-yepes/photo-gallery/