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Name of Applicant: Amount Requested: Category: Score: Federico Medina $5,000 Artist 76.2 Brief Description of Project: My proposed project is a social documentary of Santa Ana titled: Life and Culture in the Golden City presented in photography. The goal is to document all aspects of life and culture in Santa Ana. The core topics I plan document via photographs are the following: historic architecture, murals, locations, and residents of Santa Ana to show the diversity of the city as well as living conditions in the variety of neighborhoods. I will incorporate both indoor and outdoor street photography during the day and night to photograph locations that have become iconic in Santa Ana. These locations will vary from places of worship, parks, stores, restaurants, cultural based places of gathering, artist/ musician/ culinary districts (i.e. Downtown Santa Ana). I will document the current socioeconomic state of the city. I feel that once the project is advancing, it will open other aspects of the city that will be documented/ photographed. We live in a time where life and our environment is advancing and transforming at a accelerated rate and I will create a "time- capsule" in the form of photography of the modern /present time (2016- 2017) that we are living in Santa Ana. The final presentation of the proposed social documentary will be presented at the Bowers Museum /John M. Lee Court wing, which has already agreed to be the host of the project with the support of Emily Mahon the Senior Director of Education of Bowers Museum (contact information is in the Letter of Support). The final presentation will include a lecture and slideshow/ video of the experience in documenting and photographing Santa Ana, as well as musical performances of select local artists. The Social Documentary will be a Celebration of Santa Ana located at Bowers Museum. Community Benefit: Inspiration can come in many different forms when put in front of the viewer and this project will present the featured elements from our city in the proposed exhibit. My goal is to inspire others to participate in the growing arts and culture of Santa Ana. I want the viewer to experience the exhibit and know that they too can contribute to any aspect that it presented in the photography. Being born and raised in Santa Ana I know first -hand that some residents choose to not venture out of their neighborhood or comfort zone. Exploring your local surroundings is a crucial part of knowing yourself and the city you call home. An exhibit of this scale, presented at Bowers Museum, Santa Ana's most prestigious museum, will help give the viewer an uplifting sense of honor in themselves and the city they live in. 25J -19