Sat June 25, 2016
MCCLA and The Mural Puentes Project: MCCLA Mural Restoration Benefit Exhibition
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"La Puerta en el Puente del Tiempo" A benefit Exhibition for The Puentes Project: MCCLA Mural Restoration with paintings by Carlos Loarca & Betsie Miller-Kusz, founders of the mural. The opening reception is
scheduled for Friday, May 20th from 6:30pm-9:30pm, general admission is $5, in the Inti Raymi Gallery on the 2nd floor.
The iconic Mission Cultural Center Mural was painted in 1982 by three artists, led by Carlos Loarca, and assisted by Manuel Villamor and Betsie Miller-Kisz. The mural of 3700 square fee, covers the front and side façade of the building at 2868 Mission St, near 24th St. It was one of the first murals to feature the symbolism of the Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations. The theme also included representations of the many artistic activities inside the center, all visually united within the huge body of an ancestral Indian figure crossing both facades. The mural is still intact, even in a time of great economic change in the Mission District. The creation of the mural was documented in Anatomy of a Mural, an award winning documentary film by Rick Goldsmith.
The Puentes Project would focus on the restoration of this mural, now badly deteriorated over 30 year's time The project is visualized as a means to build contemporary bridges in the midst of great division and displacement in the Mission. The bridges would be built between past and present, between generations young and older, between the changing Mission populations. The mural restoration would be directed by the original muralists, but would include a younger generation of artists as well. The muralists believe this huge painting project would begin to heal some of the Mission District wounds, as the first mural did back in the 1980's. Puentes would seek to accomplish this with mural paint, not politics.
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scheduled for Friday, May 20th from 6:30pm-9:30pm, general admission is $5, in the Inti Raymi Gallery on the 2nd floor.
The iconic Mission Cultural Center Mural was painted in 1982 by three artists, led by Carlos Loarca, and assisted by Manuel Villamor and Betsie Miller-Kisz. The mural of 3700 square fee, covers the front and side façade of the building at 2868 Mission St, near 24th St. It was one of the first murals to feature the symbolism of the Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations. The theme also included representations of the many artistic activities inside the center, all visually united within the huge body of an ancestral Indian figure crossing both facades. The mural is still intact, even in a time of great economic change in the Mission District. The creation of the mural was documented in Anatomy of a Mural, an award winning documentary film by Rick Goldsmith.
The Puentes Project would focus on the restoration of this mural, now badly deteriorated over 30 year's time The project is visualized as a means to build contemporary bridges in the midst of great division and displacement in the Mission. The bridges would be built between past and present, between generations young and older, between the changing Mission populations. The mural restoration would be directed by the original muralists, but would include a younger generation of artists as well. The muralists believe this huge painting project would begin to heal some of the Mission District wounds, as the first mural did back in the 1980's. Puentes would seek to accomplish this with mural paint, not politics.
"La Puerta en el Puente del Tiempo" A benefit Exhibition for The Puentes Project: MCCLA Mural Restoration with paintings by Carlos Loarca & Betsie Miller-Kusz, founders of the mural. The opening reception is
scheduled for Friday, May 20th from 6:30pm-9:30pm, general admission is $5, in the Inti Raymi Gallery on the 2nd floor.
The iconic Mission Cultural Center Mural was painted in 1982 by three artists, led by Carlos Loarca, and assisted by Manuel Villamor and Betsie Miller-Kisz. The mural of 3700 square fee, covers the front and side façade of the building at 2868 Mission St, near 24th St. It was one of the first murals to feature the symbolism of the Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations. The theme also included representations of the many artistic activities inside the center, all visually united within the huge body of an ancestral Indian figure crossing both facades. The mural is still intact, even in a time of great economic change in the Mission District. The creation of the mural was documented in Anatomy of a Mural, an award winning documentary film by Rick Goldsmith.
The Puentes Project would focus on the restoration of this mural, now badly deteriorated over 30 year's time The project is visualized as a means to build contemporary bridges in the midst of great division and displacement in the Mission. The bridges would be built between past and present, between generations young and older, between the changing Mission populations. The mural restoration would be directed by the original muralists, but would include a younger generation of artists as well. The muralists believe this huge painting project would begin to heal some of the Mission District wounds, as the first mural did back in the 1980's. Puentes would seek to accomplish this with mural paint, not politics.
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scheduled for Friday, May 20th from 6:30pm-9:30pm, general admission is $5, in the Inti Raymi Gallery on the 2nd floor.
The iconic Mission Cultural Center Mural was painted in 1982 by three artists, led by Carlos Loarca, and assisted by Manuel Villamor and Betsie Miller-Kisz. The mural of 3700 square fee, covers the front and side façade of the building at 2868 Mission St, near 24th St. It was one of the first murals to feature the symbolism of the Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations. The theme also included representations of the many artistic activities inside the center, all visually united within the huge body of an ancestral Indian figure crossing both facades. The mural is still intact, even in a time of great economic change in the Mission District. The creation of the mural was documented in Anatomy of a Mural, an award winning documentary film by Rick Goldsmith.
The Puentes Project would focus on the restoration of this mural, now badly deteriorated over 30 year's time The project is visualized as a means to build contemporary bridges in the midst of great division and displacement in the Mission. The bridges would be built between past and present, between generations young and older, between the changing Mission populations. The mural restoration would be directed by the original muralists, but would include a younger generation of artists as well. The muralists believe this huge painting project would begin to heal some of the Mission District wounds, as the first mural did back in the 1980's. Puentes would seek to accomplish this with mural paint, not politics.
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