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

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mobile and can be installed where are invited for an exhibition. Supplemental Question 2: Is this a new or existing program/project?: YAC is proposing that this is a new collaborative comprised of established Santa Ana artists who use different mediums that includes public gatherings with audience participation. The artists and organizations are supported by other funding but lack resources for this project. The artists and organizations create art and engage the community in the creative process. We decided to work together to bring art out into neighborhoods instead having residents having to venture into the artist village which at times make the neighborhoods feel no connectivity with the art community. YAC wanted take art out into the community and have the community look at their neighborhood through the eyes of artists and see the hidden beauty. This changes the neighborhood's relationship with themselves, their families and their neighborhood. We want residents to work with our artists to reveal the beauty in our underserved neighborhoods. Supplemental Question 3: How will the proposed project be presented or shared with the public? Will the art display, event or performance be free and accessible to the public?: The project will be free and shared with the community. We contacted neighborhood associations and youth programs to work as community partners such as: Artesia Pilar, Delhi, Riverview West, Santa Nita, Lacy/Garfield, & Cambodian Family are just a few of or partners. They are very excited about the project. The YAC creative and artistic community engagement process will be similar to this one specific example with minor modifications tailored to the neighborhood: YAC will work with The MIX Academy at Newsong operated by Lambert Lo. It's a large gathering of about 300 students from Santa Ana. Volunteers teach free classes where youth can sign up. Classes includes art. Brian will work with Lambert to identify a youth to be painted. Inspyr will assist the youths to create a mural with a topic they chose. It will be stored and reused again and again. It will be shared and presented to the public during and after the creation process. The public will be encouraged to engage and co -create the project. The results will be shown at the final event and will also be accessible to the public at the final viewing and presentation where all the neighborhood participants will gather for a celebration and unveiling of all the neighborhood murals, living art, portraits, and masks. We will invite musicians from the community to perform. We will invite other artists to reflect and talk about the result, art and community. We anticipate and working on finding a space where it can be view more for longer periods later. We have several places for one time showing. We have several options for the living organic art piece. For example, the Blue Lot (old Cadillac Property) could be made into living art piece. It is also an ideal venue at which the murals could be presented. We have connected with Ruben Salazar, the curator of the Blue Lot, who is open to this idea. Parke Familias Corazones Verdes on 4th St. is also another possible venue. I am connected with Laura Pantoja, the director of the location. Delhi Community Center is our fall back. Supplemental Question 4: How will this project enrich the Santa Ana arts and culture community?: The project is experiential and embraces Henri -Robert -Marcel Duchamp and the Da Da movement. The exhibition will be an active and interactive piece of art that explores and captures the faces of Santa Ana where they live, work and play. The city reveals itself through paintings, murals and photographs and video. The project will impact not only the Santa Ana art and cultural community but it will grow out from its community roots embracing the art and making it theirs. Everyone benefits. It will demonstrate the power art carries in storytelling and demonstrate that we can use our gifts to give back to others. The "Connected" portion of the Rose in the Concrete event will