SANTA ANA UNIDOS/YOUTH ARTS COLLABORATIVE/FACES OF SANTA ANA - 2017

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California Arts and Leadership 24 project and OC Department of Education ACCESS. Inspyr Arts is dedicated to providing and creating art, designing arts programs and curriculum that foster positive personal growth for youth. Inspyr Arts serves an average of 3600 youth a year through school-based fine and modern arts education and helps develop art programs for various groups an non -profits. Joey Linnert is an ecological earth artist/land steward with Santa Ana's New Earth Life and with a mission to empower through creative organic projects our community to live a self-reliant, healthy life. As a new earth artist, Joey provides mentor -based arts, educational, and vocational programs that empower juvenile justice and system involved youth ages 13-25 to transform their lives, move toward positive, healthier life choices, and realize their full potential as contributing members of our community. Joey lives in Santa Ana and teaches the community to develop community farms and change the local food system to prevent hunger and connect communities to health nurturing lifestyles. Joey was one of the artists that participated in the Incarceration Crisis Project at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) in February 2017. He was part of a panel during the Boca de Oro: Art & Literature Festival Incarceration Crisis: "Overcoming Recidivism" and Fluent Words of Love. Joey works with incarcerated youth and create organic art food sculptures and garden. Narrative for proposed use of funds:: We accomplish this by providing tools, resources, and place to work with artists who share their inspiration, knowledge and artistic gifts with the community. A total of $'10,000 is requested for the Youth Arts Collaborative for contracted artists, personnel and artist supplies and materials, and rental space for the final presentation event. $2,000 will be allocated in funds to contract artist Brian Peterson of Faces of Santa Ana to paint five 30"x40" oil portraits of Santa Ana faces. Funds will also be used for artists supplies and materials. $2,000 will be allocated in funds to contract with Vicky Otero and Inspyr Art Studio to purchase artists supplies and materials to create six community murals on 5' x 9' primed canvas rolls $65 qty. 7 = $500. artist Paint = $ 450, Tarps= $ 50, and Paint brushes = $0 donated by inspyr arts. Staffing for mural events and pre and post prep: $ 1000 and time to do post work that we do on the murals to ready them for public display going back over what the kids painted and do touch ups and clean ups. $2,000 will be allocated in funds to Joey Linnert and New Earth Life Funds for personnel and material to create a living art piece. $3,000 will be allocated to Unidos to organize six community art events in different neighborhoods and to organize the final presentation event. Unidos will also conduct mask making at the events. Uidos will photograph and videotape the events. Funds will be use staffing, artistic supplies and equipment for the events. $1,000 will be allocated to rent space at the Delhi Community Center to hold the final presentation event. See budget. Supplemental Question 1: Please describe any additional City of Santa Ana resources required for your project (permits, public space, licenses etc.)?: We do not anticipate that we will need permits. We are planning on using private and public facilities that are accessible to the public. We also checked with property owners and city park personnel. We also discussed this with the Director of the Artwalk who endorses our project. For the living art creation project using organic materials, we will use existing community gardens at Jerome Park, EI Salvador Park, Angels Park, and Madison Park. The final presentation will be held at Delhi Community Center in October. We will rent the facility for the final event and they have appropriate licenses and permits. The fee is included in our budget. The project is