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Active ProjectsSan Pedro Service CenterArtist:
Carlos Callejo
Date:
TBD
Region:
Port of LA/San Pedro
District:
Fourth
Location:
San Pedro Service Center
769 W. 3rd Street San Pedro, CA 90731 Department:
Community & Senior Services
 
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Project DescriptionThe San Pedro Service Center has provided educational, social, and recreational services for its surrounding community for over three decades. These services include emergency food distribution, computer training classes, a nutrition program, and assistance for seniors to obtain social security, health care, and affordable housing. In order to help continue the Center’s mission, it will be renovated and expanded beginning in late 2009. A new senior/multipurpose room and two new daycare/classrooms will be added. As part of this project, artist Carlos Callejo has been commissioned to create a mural for the Center’s exterior. The artist will hand paint the mural over several months while the Center is fully operational such that users and visitors to the Center will be able to observe the artist’s process. The artwork will be fully installed when the renovation is complete, in summer 2010.
About the ArtistCarlos Callejo, who lives and works in San Pedro, has over thirty years experience designing, directing, and coordinating public art projects. He has created dozens of public artworks, including murals he painted for the Smithsonian Institution’s Festival of American Folk Life in Washington, D.C., the Silver City Tourist and Visitors’ Bureau, and the El Paso County Courthouse’s atrium. His work takes inspiration from the great muralists of post-revolutionary Mexico and he frequently creates art that combines historical and mythic imagery. Carlos studied art at California State University and the Otis Art Institute, and he received a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund Arts International grant to study the history and production of murals in Italy. |
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