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Include Local Food System as a Creative Economy Strategy 

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Include Local Food System as a Creative Economy Strategy 

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Our local food system is intimately connected to equity, economy, environment and culture. Integrating artistic and cultural practices with food and agriculture enables creative and inclusive processes and ensures community members see their identities, histories, and interests reflected in the work. This integration is a uniquely effective and inclusive way to: bridge and heal divides, transform community spaces and celebrate identity, ignite creative and community-led processes, and preserve and reclaim food & farming traditions. Please include Local Food System as a component of the overall narrative and strategy for the Cultural Plan and the Creative Economy.

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SD NEEDS A FORMAL  DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, NOT A COMISSION .

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SD NEEDS A FORMAL  DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, NOT A COMISSION .

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In order to be considered seriously as a City interested in develop cultural life at the level of other cities nationwide and worldwide, SD needs a dedicated branch of the city government with it’s own Director, Budget, and a Permanent Plan with constant active participation of the People and Organization that actually makes the cultural life of the city.

In proportion , Tijuana has a more efficient and constant cultual life than SD.

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The landscape,  human diversity,  rich colorful history and warm weather makes sandiego a one of a kind.  I want more affordable activities for the people who make this city the place to live in,  after all we pay the bills for it all after the tourists have gone home. 

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The landscape,  human diversity,  rich colorful history and warm weather makes sandiego a one of a kind.  I want more affordable activities for the people who make this city the place to live in,  after all we pay the bills for it all after the tourists have gone home. 

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I took one look at that form and ran away!! And we have some in really bad shape and so many artists that would leap at the opportunity to create and promote themselves and beautify the city. -XO Roberta Sutton

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I dream of building a network of teaching artists who teach art classes to the public in these amazing cultural facilities, libraries, recreation centers, and parks. Have a central art supply lending library, collaborate with artists on syllabi for optimized teaching, pay artists, and enrich lives of San Diegans with the creative process. Art belongs to everyone. "Making" is good for the mind and furthers art appreciation. Such a program would encapsulate everything in the creative plan. - Roberta Sutton

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Many small places struggle with rent, requirements, and overall funding support to keep afloat. I've seen lots having to shut down activities as they're not sustainable and their staff is stretched out. The new generation of artists need these places as stepping stones to their careers, and the community a place to gather and enjoy artistic creations.

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Funded Artists Residencies for Local Artists

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Funded Artists Residencies for Local Artists

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San Diego is lacking in opportunities for local artists, hence the migration to LA/ SF, etc. Major cities have funding opportunities in place to support residency programs and grants for local artists, where the funding is paid to the artists directly, without performative requirements- simply to support their existing practice.. What this means is that we value the work of local artists and see the value of supporting them here in SD.

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City funding to support the establishment of artist-run galleries is a huge opportunity that would make an incredible impact on the creative community in San Diego. Other major cities (Portland for example) have had great success with these initiatives. The cost of renting space in San Diego is the obstacle, but one that can be overcome with financial support.

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I'd like to see collaboration between working artists— writers, filmmakers, sculptors, dancers, musicians— and schools, i.e. classroom visits, internships for art teachers and artists, art advisors to school boards. The arts always get the axe first in school budgets! Make them matter as much as math and science!

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So many communities have roundabouts to curb car related deaths. They are super cool too.

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The city could look at the medians in the poorest communities and plant TREES. The pollution here is so bad on Market street. I'm sure the trees would help, though.

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The Gondolas in Colombia,

specifically Medallin are amazing. It would be so cool if we had these to places like the airport, Petco park, Snapdragon and the beaches!

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I'd love to see more vacant lots turned into businesses at the bottom and housing on the top.

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Mt hope has always been at the bottom of the list. Give them some love!

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The people of san Diego are pretty cool. I love hearing reggae and sublime everywhere. People surfing and fishing. People grilling.

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I'd love to see parks over our freeways! 

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I'd love to see parks over our freeways! 

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It would be amazing to see parks that connect Jackie Robinson YMCA and Lincoln High school.

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Success is when ALL people are thriving. Not just those in rich white communities.

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IT would be awesome if it wasn't so hard to get housing. SDGE and our CITY make it so hard to build.

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Id like to see parks in the poorest communities get priority over places like Mission bay. 

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Id like to see parks in the poorest communities get priority over places like Mission bay. 

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What if our poorest communities had awesome parks? What if Mt Hope had nice fire pits? Solar paneled picnic tables where you could plug in your radio or phone?

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Creative master planning to integrate arts into public spaces

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Creative master planning to integrate arts into public spaces

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Our diversity is our strength and creating a "destination" doesn't have to be through new buildings. An example would be Superkilen Park in Denmark, where community art and recreation spaces are interchangeable.

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Affordable Venue Spaces for Music or Art Shows

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Affordable Venue Spaces for Music or Art Shows

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Keep the DIY culture strong, but also safe :)

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I lose artist friends, and this city loses amazing creative community-builders every year who are forced to move because they can't afford the ridiculous housing prices and b/c artist wages have been stagnant for decades. Housing should be the #1 priority, not just work/live art studios, but keeping in mind that artists are part of and beholden to their households/families.

If we truly care about keeping our artists here and thriving, please help protect their ability to live here with abundant and accessible grants, and please invest in the folks who are already putting in the hard work to build creative community.

I'd also love to see some cross-over to resolve the inequity in access to social services, many of which base eligibility on gross income. But most artists pay 15% self employment tax and don't end up qualifying for assistance based on a technicality.

It's nice to talk about murals and artist lofts, etc. but I'd appreciate a more holistic response to the fact that local artists (particularly BIPOC, queer, parents) are barely getting by in a city/state that deems itself progressive and safe - how progressive and safe can we be here if we can't afford rent, groceries, daycare?

If I sound desperate it's because I'm one of those queer creatives/mothers/community-builders just trying to figure out a way to stay in SD and keep a roof over my daughter's head.

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The City to partner with small arts-based galleries and venues.

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The City to partner with small arts-based galleries and venues.

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I'd love to see the city open up more opportunities to partner with smaller arts galleries and venues. Often these spaces are not NGOs and they need to charge rental fees to host events in their space so they can cover costs of commercial lease and rent. It would be rad if the city partnered and sponsored art showcases, workshops, and events through these partnerships. This would help not only make access to space more equitable, it would also help small arts-based businesses expand their networks and get more publicity. We have got to stop only sharing the wealth with museums and high-end galleries!!

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More funding for individual artists and arts-based businesses. 

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More funding for individual artists and arts-based businesses. 

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Often the majority of all arts funding that is available through the City is earmarked for non-profit organizations only. Or Fiscal sponsors. Fiscal sponsorships are not always so easy to acquire, nor do they always make sense due to the percentage of funding kept by the fiscal sponsor. Please start trusting artists. Non-profits are not the only groups that can take funding and turn it into something impactful. We need to support our arts communities so they have the opportunity to be sustainable with their creative practice. We shouldn't have to seek several jobs and side-gigs and have multiple roommates just to live in San Diego. Open up opportunities for everyone! You may be pleasantly surprised by the impact.

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Sustainability Efforts and Business Development for the arts!

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Sustainability Efforts and Business Development for the arts!

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With inflation, an economy running amok, and the housing crisis, it is imperative that we provide our creative arts community with the economic and business development support necessary to help them be sustainable and build prosperous creative practices. Creative Artists often get devalued. We need to get creative artists to a place where their main source of income isn't solely relying on being a subcontractor or teaching artist for multiple organizations/institutions and other side-hustles. We have an $11.1 Billion Creative economy but it doesn't look like the actual creative artists are reaping the benefits or reward from such wealth. It's time that the community have access to the necessary education to learn about their intellectual property, leveraging contracts and negotiating, and understanding royalties and licensing, from an arts-based lens. Financial literacy, bookkeeping, invoicing, marketing, and portfolio development must be at the forefront of our culture. The world is changing rapidly, art is expanding into digital platforms and globalizing, AI is making its way into every nook and cranny of our lives, we must get the support necessary to learn how to set ourselves up for success, evolve and advance with the changes that are occurring.

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I would love to see more community events!

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I would love to see more community events!

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I feel like there is so much potential in san diego for outdoor art events to create a closer community and invve more people in the art world.

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The brain drain of artists to other areas stops and San Diego gets to benefit from the incredible artists it births. The local community will benefit from stronger arts and culture when artists are grounded in support!

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1. Support artists directly
2. Make culture/art a priority across the city/county

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Subsidized Art Studios and Art Galleries 

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Subsidized Art Studios and Art Galleries 

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Most of the art galleries in San Diego are either private businesses or non-profits. It would be incredible for the city to have more galleries across the county for artists to display their work and for the city to showcase its collection of art works. That also being said it would be incredible to see art studios facilities made and run by the city with subsidized space for artist (NOT HOBBYISTS) to make bodies of work. Many of the artist studio spaces in SD are run by private businesses. The cost for these private studios is very high so artists often sell work out of their studios splitting their time between making work and selling to the public. The studio spaces the city offers in Balboa Park are over-run by a mafia of hobbyists who make and sell kitsch (a kind of tourist trap). Where are the affordable subsidized studios for talented local artists to build bodies of work? Many artists leave San Diego for cities that can provide affordable studio space. We loose so many artists because the private institutions locally are too expensive and because the little public space is over-run by hobbyists. If these problems are solved I think the landscape for local arts and programming could flourish!

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I love this push I am seeing across arts communities in San Diego to offer free public programming to the community. I am inspired by the generosity of artists. Artists often have so much less resources to offer than institutions and I am inspired by the artists who are generous with the resources they have!

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One of the many things that inspired me in san Ysidro is people who work hard for there families just like my mom.

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San Diego is a naturally beautiful city and I love how certain neighborhoods work with the surrounding canyons. North park, normal heights, Kensington are all areas with cute, unique homes that work well with the natural environment. But I am especially inspired by the culture of San Diego, which I believe is Chicano culture and areas like barrio Logan and city heights that really lean into the culture and make it come to life with public art, architecture, and events like low rider shows. These are two separate things that I want to see continuing to work together with more public art and real Spanish architecture

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More outdoor and arts spaces that are accessible for disabled people and their caregivers

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Resources like arts in the classroom or connecting arts communities does nothing if there are no places for work to be seen//heard//experienced. The current community spaces available in San Diego are inadequate for gallery level work (performances, music, screenings), and galleries are either expensive to rent or are closed off to outside curators (where interesting discoveries await).

With more opportunities for exhibition there will be natural spaces for communities to engage with each other.

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we have so many art districts and creative hubs (barrio logan, liberty station, north park, La Jolla) and that is just metro San Diego. La mesa, El Cajon, Escondido, oceanside, Solana Beach, are also house art districts as well, and they also contribute to a creative San Diego. community support is everything

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we have so many wonderful arts programs that seem to fly under the radar- it would be nice to see an emphasis on connecting community with cultural and creative events

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every neighborhood in San Diego has something unique to offer- restaurants, public art, small business, and parks. It would be cool to eventually take a trolley from City Heights to Convoy

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the desert landscape of San Diego is so beautiful and mystifying, we are lucky to have such a diverse eco system in our backyard

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At least one art piece in every park in San Diego. At least one mural or painted court in every elementary and middle school.

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More of the work of local, san diegan artists like Celeste Byers, Mark Warren Jacques, Nicolas Danger just to name a few. Their collabs as well as works outside of North Park. It would be also great to see public art from California natives who had residencies/college teaching experience from the Bay Area to LA like Ink Dwell (nature inspired murals).

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I want to see more of both!!

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light, air, ocean, green after rain,

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"Fourth plinth" in London is a widely successful public art project with regularly changing artists showcasing their work in a prominent location. A tourist attraction + locally discussed project that a wide variety of citizens are aware of.

We'd like to see something that touches a lot of people, could be relevant to a wide range of people, interactive, educational.

It would be a success if every park in the city would have an art piece/sculpture/installation or painting.

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Environmentally conscious, interactive public art, especially around schools

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Environmentally conscious, interactive public art, especially around schools

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>School yards and walls should be used for public/interactive art, also could be involving students when creating them. Would greatly mitigate the "prison" like appearance.
>Interactive/eco conscious art by local artists (eg.: in London we have the Hive by Wolfgang Buttress or in Palo alto by Patric Dougherty)
>Involvement of local galleries and colleges in public art
>Spaces that keep people hanging around, benches, trees, sculptures that reflect seasonal change
>Awareness of how, we citizens can make our voice heard to move things forward

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https://sparcinla.org/programs/greatwallinstitute/

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The Great Wall of Los Angeles is one of Los Angeles' true cultural landmarks and one of the country's most respected and largest monuments to inter-racial harmony. SPARC's first public art project and its true signature piece, the Great Wall is a landmark pictorial representation of the history of ethnic peoples of California from prehistoric times to the 1950's, conceived by SPARC'S artistic director and founder Judith F. Baca. Begun in 1974 and completed over five summers, the Great Wall employed over 400 youth and their families from diverse social and economic backgrounds working with artists, oral historians, ethnologists, scholars, and hundreds of community members.

Its half-mile length (2,754 ft) in the Tujunga Flood Control Channel of the San Fernando Valley with accompanying park and bike trail hosts thousands of visitors every year, providing a vibrant and lasting tribute to the working people of California who have truly shaped its history. In 2000 and 2001 SPARC received acknowledgement and support from the distinguished Ford Foundation Animating Democracy: The Role of Civic Dialogue in the Arts initiative and from the Rockefeller Foundation Partnerships Affirming Community Transformation initiative. As well a $90,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, in 2013, to continue work on the Great Wall; to hold civic dialogue sessions and ultimately design the remaining four decades of the century (1960s-1990s).

The mural's restoration, a critical need, and continuation with future panels produced by the next generation of children of the Great wall remains a vital on going program of SPARC. We are currently initiating a major fundraising campaign to restore, extend and create a full use park at the Great Wall thereby establishing the site as an international educational and cultural destination.

Restoration

"The restoration of the Great Wall of Los Angeles is a massive undertaking. Every segment of the 2,750ft is cleaned, examined and treated to bring it back to its original state of brilliant color. Within the three-month dry season in the Los Angeles River the work must be completed racing against a clock that is determined by the difficult conditions of heat, water flow, rain and other factors of the unique site in the Los Angeles flood control channel. The site channels the main water flow through the San Fernando Valley to the ocean and becomes extremely perilous in a rain storm so weather watches and evacuation methods are a constant worry for the 30 members of the restoration team composed of professional muralist, interns from universities around the country, local volunteers and past participants of the Great Wall productions."

- Message from UCLA Professor Judy Baca, Creator of the Great Wall of Los Angeles and SPARC's Founder/Artistic Director

Read the Complete History of The Great Wall

A Personal Message from Judy Baca

"In 1975 when the Great Wall was still a dream, I never imagined it would lead me, the more than 400 young "Mural Makers" and the 35 other artists on my team through such a moving set of experiences. Nor could I have imagined that 27years from the date the first paint was applied to the wall that it would still be a work in progress.

When I first saw the wall, I envisioned a long narrative of another history of California; one which included ethnic peoples, women and minorities who were so invisible in conventional text book accounts. The discovery of the history of California's multi‑cultured peoples was a revelation to me as well as to the members of my teams. We learned each new decade of history in summer installments; the 20′s in 1978, the 30′s in 1980, the 40′s in 1981, and the 50′s in 1983. Each year our visions expanded as the images traveled down the wall. While our sense of our individual families' places in history took form, we became family to one another. Working toward the achievement of a difficult common goal shifted our understandings of each other and most importantly of ourselves.

I designed this project as an artist concerned not only with the physical aesthetic considerations of a space, but the social, environmental and cultural issues affecting the site as well. I am not a social worker, though people mistakenly call me one and I am not a teacher although I have teaching skills. I draw on skills not normally used by artists. I've learned as much as I've taught from the youth I've had the good fortune to know by working alongside of them. They've taught me among other things how to laugh at myself, how to put play into hard work, and how not to be afraid to believe in something. I am extremely grateful.

Perhaps most overwhelming to me about the Great Wall experience has been learning of the courage of individuals in history who endured, spoke out, and overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It was true both of the people we painted about and of ourselves the Mural Makers."

- Judith F. Baca

Selected Testimonials

On the last day of the 1983 summer project, each of the Mural Makers sat down to write about his/her experiences of working on the mural. The following are excerpts from their thoughts.

Testimonials featured on KCET, click here.

Selected Public Reviews

To see more reviews on YELP

Green Bridge Proposal

Begun in 1976 and completed over five summers, the Great Wall employed over 400 youth and their families from diverse, social and economic backgrounds working with artists, oral historians, ethnologists, scholars, and hundreds of community members. "The Great Wall" is painted on the concrete retaining wall of the Tujunga Wash in the San Fernando Valley. In addition to restoring the mural between 2009-2011, SPARC will also be constructing a new solar-lit "green" bridge with interpretive stations, and constructing five additional stations along the wall to provide access to the historical content of the mural.

Judy Baca and SPARC have collaborated with wHY Architecture to complete the designs for the "Green Bridge" which will be solar lit and composed in part from the debris of the Los Angeles River with interpretive panels along the expanse of the Bridge from which the public can view the River and the ½ mile of mural along its banks. A site plan, elevations for the bridge, materials, budget, schedule of construction have been completed for the bridge. A full model of the bridge has been built reviewed by County and City department representatives. The new Great Wall Interpretive "Green" Bridge will replace the former bridge which crossed the Tujunga Wash Flood control Channel between Miranda Street and Hatteras Street on the west side of Coldwater Canyon Blvd. The new bridge will function not only as a point to cross the Tujunga wash but also as a viewing station and interpretive center to view the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural and the Los Angeles River.

The structure of the bridge will consist of prefabricated built-up plate steel girders, steel framing and new poured concrete footings. The finishing material will consist of prefabricated textured fiberglass concrete panels on the sides of the footbridge and canopy, and composite plastic impregnated wood decking on walk able surfaces. End panels will be troweled stone face plaster over steel framing with guardrails constructed of powder-coated steel for durability. The look will be one of layered sediment with broken glass, and other plastic debris common to the river. The roof of the canopy will consist of aluminum framed, clear glass panels with thin film photovoltaic strips. Photovoltaic cells will collect solar energy and distribute back to the department of water and power, monitored by PV meters. On the underside of the canopy will be a clear skylight finished with two layers of laminated polycarbonate panels with images of the River and the Great Wall silk screened on film and sandwiched between them. Light will filter through this skylight during the day illuminating the images. The total impact of the bridge will be that it will be an instructional site about the river and the history of the diverse people of Los Angeles while it reconnects the two sides of the channel.

New Segments of the Great Wall

Students enrolled in Prof. Baca's "Beyond the Mexican Mural" course for the 2006-2007 academic quarter used the Great Wall methodology to record and conceptualize various historical events of the 1960s for the extension of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. Students focused on events between 1956 and 1972 as references for drawing imagery.

During the first phase of the mural process, students collected imagery and read books in order to familiarize themselves with events of great importance that represent the era of the 1960s. Students were encouraged to imagine and conceptualize metaphors for the Great Wall's new segment through historical prisms representing multiple perspectives of living in the 60s. Research was based upon gathering information from a wide spectrum of sources ranging from books, image archives, and lived experience interviews. Students contributed their research to a timeline of culturally relevant content until they filled in the years with events they felt were significant.

Once the timeline was filled in, students began discussing the organization of the mural. In this stage, students roughly drew in events that they interpreted as important to the decade. Some students drew while others wrote notes to describe their ideas of the imagery and how it best represented the decade as a symbol or metaphor. After the mural was mapped out on vellum, the conceptualized piece was digitized and worked on with digital imaging programs. Students incorporated both hand drawn and historical photographs into the vellum drawing on the computer. The digital piece was then reevaluated, and refined until the group decided they had reached the most desirable representation of the decade.

The following is a result of 30 weeks of research and development for the creation of the first draft of the 1960's segment of the Great Wall of Los Angeles extension.

Read the full first draft concept sketches here.

The Great Wall of Los Angeles is located in the Tujunga Wash Flood Control Channel (LA River) in the San Fernando Valley - Studio City / Valley Glen. Near LA Valley College and Grant High School. North of the Ventura Freeway (101), between the 405 and 170. From the 101, Exit on Coldwater Canyon Ave. and head North.

The Great Wall is on Coldwater Canyon Avenue between Burbank Blvd. and Oxnard St. Park along the street and walk the 1/2 mile mural and enjoy!

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Great Wall Institute - SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER

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The Great Wall Institute The Great Wall of Los Angeles is one of Los Angeles' true cultural landmarks and one of the country's most respected and largest monuments to inter-racial...

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Community Parks outfitted... handwashing/ (dry) toilets

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Community Parks outfitted... handwashing/ (dry) toilets

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Joint use parks require bathrooms & handwashing facilities, to optimize the breadth of cultural exchanges, that makes San Diego so great.

(Sadly, even if half of our population can "Bio-Break" while standing, it's unsanitary if facilities are absent. Please help expedite an inclusive culture that wisely manages basic human bodily functions? Thank you.)

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Living shorelines, creeks, wetlands, and swimming in rivers, should be a human right; Climate Justice is Social Justice is Cultura.

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Connect people... [with the] outdoors through food and farming to build community.

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Connect people... [with the] outdoors through food and farming to build community.

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https://veggielution.org/our-farm

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Our 2-acre community farm and gathering space is located in Emma Prusch Farm Park in the Mayfair neighborhood, one of the most impoverished areas in Silicon Valley. Mayfair residents suffer from conditions that affect many immigrant and working-class populations, including higher rates of obesity and diabetes, significant education and earning gaps, lack of access to safe, well-maintained outdoor spaces, and limited options for fresh, healthy food. We believe that building social capital--the network of social connections that exist between people, which enable and encourage social cooperation and civic engagement--is the key to addressing these issues.

We follow this approach in our three areas of impact - Community Engagement, Youth Education, and Leadership Development.

Through food-centered programs for all ages, we connect residents to each other and to people and resources from outside their community that will enable them to make change. Our farm provides a critical platform for these programs. Many East San José residents have deep and meaningful connections to agriculture. We seek to use our farm as a safe, accessible and well-maintained gathering space for the East San José community to reconnect to the land and to each other.

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Our 2-acre community farm and gathering space is located in Emma Prusch Farm Park in the Mayfair neighborhood, one of the most impoverished areas in Silicon Valley. Mayfair residents suffer from conditions that affect many immigrant and working-class populations, including higher rates of obesity and diabetes, significant education and earning gaps, lack of access to safe, well-maintained outdoor spaces, and limited options for fresh, healthy food.

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Tidelands Park in Barrio Logan = (Equitable) Disaster Preparedness for ALL SD Region

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Tidelands Park in Barrio Logan = (Equitable) Disaster Preparedness for ALL SD Region

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Might our families & neighbors enjoy a "Tidelands Park" off of Barrio Logan?  (Please prioritize mental health and overall wellness & resiliency, for our tourist's and residents? What our communities are doing at the mouth of our rivers & watershed systems, determines our preventative maintenance at our headwaters & snowcaps.)

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Underwater park (& trails) off of Barrio Logan: Equitable access to carbon sequestration (from kelp forests, oyster farming, aquaculture, etc.). If we can rotate our crops, could we kindly rotate our water-vehicle-parking-spots?  

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Underwater park (& trails) off of Barrio Logan: Equitable access to carbon sequestration (from kelp forests, oyster farming, aquaculture, etc.). If we can rotate our crops, could we kindly rotate our water-vehicle-parking-spots?  

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https://veggielution.org/our-farm
"...connect people from diverse backgrounds outdoors through food and farming to build community..."

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Our 2-acre community farm and gathering space is located in Emma Prusch Farm Park in the Mayfair neighborhood, one of the most impoverished areas in Silicon Valley. Mayfair residents suffer from conditions that affect many immigrant and working-class populations, including higher rates of obesity and diabetes, significant education and earning gaps, lack of access to safe, well-maintained outdoor spaces, and limited options for fresh, healthy food. We believe that building social capital--the network of social connections that exist between people, which enable and encourage social cooperation and civic engagement--is the key to addressing these issues.

We follow this approach in our three areas of impact - Community Engagement, Youth Education, and Leadership Development.

Through food-centered programs for all ages, we connect residents to each other and to people and resources from outside their community that will enable them to make change. Our farm provides a critical platform for these programs. Many East San José residents have deep and meaningful connections to agriculture. We seek to use our farm as a safe, accessible and well-maintained gathering space for the East San José community to reconnect to the land and to each other.

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Our 2-acre community farm and gathering space is located in Emma Prusch Farm Park in the Mayfair neighborhood, one of the most impoverished areas in Silicon Valley. Mayfair residents suffer from conditions that affect many immigrant and working-class populations, including higher rates of obesity and diabetes, significant education and earning gaps, lack of access to safe, well-maintained outdoor spaces, and limited options for fresh, healthy food.

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Community Gardens on riverbanks, "Changing the way we grow food, move food, share food, and think about food ultimately changes the way we treat the planet and each other. These goals are linked. We cannot achieve one without achieving the others."  (Food Vision 2030)   Food forests are not novel ideas for large citys.

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Community Gardens on riverbanks, "Changing the way we grow food, move food, share food, and think about food ultimately changes the way we treat the planet and each other. These goals are linked. We cannot achieve one without achieving the others."  (Food Vision 2030)   Food forests are not novel ideas for large citys.

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Kumeyaay Walking River PATH in Old Town is divine. The smells, and the signs/ plant details, are transcendant. It'd be so cool to see that throughout each SD watershed route.

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Kumeyaay Walking River PATH in Old Town is divine. The smells, and the signs/ plant details, are transcendant. It'd be so cool to see that throughout each SD watershed route.

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Bridge academic gaps for all students & at all schools by making space for cultural exchanges. Holistic learning requires nature  coexisting with community. Bio-sequestration is not only necessary for humanities existence; Plants are cultural perpetuity.  

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Bridge academic gaps for all students & at all schools by making space for cultural exchanges. Holistic learning requires nature  coexisting with community. Bio-sequestration is not only necessary for humanities existence; Plants are cultural perpetuity.  

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Universal afterschool enrichment SPACES, for our community. (Sadly we've had a system in place that perpetuates isolation.  We need to do better, not only for our communities multi-generational health, moreover for our SAFETY.)

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Universal afterschool enrichment SPACES, for our community. (Sadly we've had a system in place that perpetuates isolation.  We need to do better, not only for our communities multi-generational health, moreover for our SAFETY.)

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Gardens harvest seasonal rains, thus creating nature observation learning enrichment (cooling-zen) spots.

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Gardens harvest seasonal rains, thus creating nature observation learning enrichment (cooling-zen) spots.

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- Clean parks, streets, beaches.
- High-concept bars, nightclubs, restaurants and hotels.
- A market for fine art.
- Curated lighting scheme for downtown architecture at night.
- Artist-conceived parties, experiences, events.

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The light, the air, the sea. It’s pure pleasure to live here.

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Enable nature to enable Creativity. Schools are crippled with blacktops, (& expired abrasive rubber mats,) exacerbating hot atmospheric currents.  Parents (for decades) need help expediting natural schoolyards, to create space for community arts (storytelling, dance, cooking, gardening, singing, etc).  Empower creativity for all learners, of all ages to benefit from the wellness of nature.  We are part of a holistic system; Our microclimates in schools (& joint use parks) are a highest priority i.e. Natural Playgrounds.
Thank you!

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Medically speaking we all need to play, and we all need nature. Let's expedite Natural playgrounds in our elementary schools & joint use parks to enrich multi-sensory experiences EVERYWHERE. Thanks!

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Acknowledging the stewards of land, since time imemmoral, is fortifying. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) everyone can celebrate and uplift our wealth of diversity; We're all native from somewhere.

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It is San Diego a creative city

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Affordable or county funded art classes at affordable housing properties...

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Affordable or county funded art classes at affordable housing properties...

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Hi again! I attended the event last night and woke up with a more developed idea this am. There are many affordable housing apartment communities in my neighborhood (Pacific Highlands Ranch, Carmel Valley) and I live in one. I raised my son's as a single parent and was never able to have my children attend enrichment programs or summer camps but the wealthier kids in the surrounding neighborhoods did. I feel like it really put those kids at an advantage. I would love to see affordable or county funded art programs hosted at the affordable housing communities in my neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods. I work for the Poway Unified School District with kids with special needs and I am also an artist. I supplement my low pay by teaching children and sometimes adults art classes after school and during the summer months. This summer Gateways summer camp had to cut it's class offering because they could not afford the rent on the building they were using. I was teaching 6 classes a day and now I am only teaching 1. Anyway, I would love to teach the kids and adults in the communities who really need it most )after school and in the summer). Most complexes have a recreational room or suitable outdoor space that would work for this purpose. Over the last few years I have taught comics class where I focus on teaching not only how to make a comic book but to also to become familiar with different art mediums including chalk pastels, colored pencils, crayons and markers. The children also learn the basic elements of story writing, beginning, middle, end etc. While having fun expressing themselves artistically. During the school year I had been teaching mixed media classes but parents could not afford to pay the extra money at the after school program I worked at to keep the classes going.

I posted this on social media today after teaching my summer camp comic class...Today we worked on stylized lettering and drawing settings for our comic book backgrounds...on my way out to my car I ran into a student from last year and he told me that this year he is taking a writing class because he loved writing his comic book story so much last year with me but he wished that I was his teacher this year too and he gave me a big hug and told me he misses me ❤️ that totally made my day! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏 Feeling grateful ☺️

This brought a tear to my eye...to know that I am not only teaching skills but that I am INSPIRING others along their journeys to be their best selves. I would love for everyone to have that opportunity. I also would like to add that these kiddos and adults in the affordable housing communities are often migrants from countries around the world, it's a gathering place, a melting pot, a starting point for so many lives...I'd like to give them a leg up so to speak because that's what I would have wanted for my boys. ❤️🙏🌺

Warmly,

Ginger Lou
858-248-1786

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Being able to freely create for and entertain tourist with people who understand and experience busking rather than have people who know nothing about it regulate it. 

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Being able to freely create for and entertain tourist with people who understand and experience busking rather than have people who know nothing about it regulate it. 

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Creating a clear and concise description on what is free expression and what is protected by free speech in San Diego using the model from the sparks v white 2007 court case for artists,and use the supreme court's definition of protected performances and expressive sales included in the city code along with enforcement against law enforcement who would violate those rights. 

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Creating a clear and concise description on what is free expression and what is protected by free speech in San Diego using the model from the sparks v white 2007 court case for artists,and use the supreme court's definition of protected performances and expressive sales included in the city code along with enforcement against law enforcement who would violate those rights. 

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I would really like to create a council of buskers and artists to work with the city that creates regulations to protect and preserve buskers and street artists. I have a lot of great ideas on how to utilize busking to expand the vibrancy of the city and create a system for busking that not only protects performers and artists but solves a lot of issues we face as creative  street entertainers. 

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I would really like to create a council of buskers and artists to work with the city that creates regulations to protect and preserve buskers and street artists. I have a lot of great ideas on how to utilize busking to expand the vibrancy of the city and create a system for busking that not only protects performers and artists but solves a lot of issues we face as creative  street entertainers. 

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When I first moved to San Diego I experienced buskers and artists on a daily basis. This inspired me to busk and to put my art out there, it caused me to grow creatively and eventually fight for buskers and artists first amendment rights. So definitely busking and art inspired me.

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our melting pot of different cultures and future-driven goals

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sustainable architecture that reflects San Diego’s cultural diversity and future growth

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strong emphasis on arts education, aka STEAM

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strong emphasis on arts education, aka STEAM

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Engaging activities for our children, youth and families

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Transit centers as major arts & culture hubspots

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Inclusion of local established artists and support for emerging artists. More diversity at the arts commission and committees.

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Diversity. Support for local/established artists and making San Diego a destination for artists and creatives

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More support for art programs in schools

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Free access to open studios and spaces to create

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More public art alongside the freeways

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More public art, more grassroots galleries

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The chincanx culture - identity, the amount of spaces for opportunities to express that

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The people and our Mexican culture, being so close to the border.

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More diversity…beyond cultural.
More diversity in….
Arts
Socioeconomic scale
The built environment
The public spaces
Entertainment venues
Political perspectives
Personalities
Etc.

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I really liked this website for Seattle with recommendations from artists. Showed the diversity of the City. 

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I really liked this website for Seattle with recommendations from artists. Showed the diversity of the City. 

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Creative City | Visit Seattle

Discover Seattle and the Puget Sound region through the eyes of some of the musicians, writers, painters, sculptors, directors and other creative artists who live here.

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Discover Seattle and the Puget Sound region through the eyes of some of the musicians, writers, painters, sculptors, directors and other creative artists who live here.

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An interconnected, pedestrian public realm. Starting with our streams and canyons bit extending into our oversized Caltrans ROW. Multi-modal corridors.

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All the small things happening by real people  with a vision. Small scale, diverse, approachable.

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Our people and the uniqueness of our culture influenced by our proximity to Mexico.

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Art in North county I am an artist and I create hangable art, fashion, jewelry and I am also an art teacher ❤️ I live in North County...Carmel Valley and we have zero arts and culture in my community. I would love to see that change and assist with that change ❤️

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Art in North county I am an artist and I create hangable art, fashion, jewelry and I am also an art teacher ❤️ I live in North County...Carmel Valley and we have zero arts and culture in my community. I would love to see that change and assist with that change ❤️

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My name is Ginger Lou
858-248-1786

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More artist housing !!

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Educated artists and resilience in expression

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We should invest in training for the youth to learn about production and what goes on behind the scenes of events and outreach!

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Free tickets were given to see a concert at The Rady Shell. For my family & friends, it was their first time setting foot inside this beautiful venue.

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Accessibility to events and entertainment.

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Affordable artist-run spaces everywhere in city

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Affordable artist-run spaces everywhere in city

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Art and Environmental Justice in south San Diego  

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Art and Environmental Justice in south San Diego  

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AAW Borderlands + San Antonio Midpoint presentation (5)

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Getting to Mission Trails is an easy walk from home. And City leadership has preserved it all as a regional park in perpetuity.