from Antonio Pedro Ruiz Co-Founder of The Creativity Network Graffiti has been with us since the Romans. Today’s graffiti is a representation of contemporary urban hip-hop culture, often practiced by people who know no other form of artistic expression. When a spray can is used to scribble gang symbols on a wall it is called [...]
The Press Telegram covered the meeting between Phil Hester, Director of the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department, and the community served by the Homeland Cultural Center. Orlando Greenhill, who teaches an improvised music class at the center, speaks passionately about the impact Zoot Velasco has had on every person at the center. I’m not sure, [...]
If you are as outraged as many in the community over the dismissal of Zoot Velasco, Cultural Program Supervisor at Homeland Cultural Center and Macarthur Park, then this is a CALL TO ACTION. You, The Friends of Homeland and the community want to know what this means for the future of the Art and Cultural [...]
Yesterday, I received this e-mail from Zoot Velasco, the soon to be ex-Cultural Program Supervisor at the Homeland Cultural Center at McArthur Park. During the past 16 months that I have visited Homeland, I have witnessed a scene unlike any other in a neighborhood and city that is often fractured by racial and ethnic tensions [...]