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Name of Applicant: Amount Requested: Category: Score: <br />Santa Ana $10,000 Organization 81.7 — 4t" <br />Unidos/Youth Arts <br />Collaborative/Faces <br />of Santa Ana <br />Description of Project: <br />The Youth Arts Collaborative is a youth arts organization that works in collaboration with <br />Santa Ana artists and local neighborhood to promote positive social change through the <br />creation of community public art. Working side-by-side with Santa Ana artists, creative <br />youth teams produce engaging works of art/public art events that are meaningful to both <br />the teens and the neighborhood. Our goal is to collaborate, create art and impact <br />community. We empower individuals and communities to create positive change <br />through the visual arts and other art forms that embraces and celebrate communities. <br />The Collaborators are Brian Peterson/Faces of Santa Ana (FOSA), Vicky Otero/Inspyr <br />Arts, Joey Linnert/New Earth Life (NEL), Nellie LeGaspe —First American Arts <br />Foundation (FAAF), and Johnathan Hernandez/Santa Ana Unidos Arts. Other artists will <br />be recruited to work with key collaborators and to engage and inspire community <br />participants. <br />The Youth Art Collaborative (YAC) will facilitate youth and their families to create mural <br />paintings on canvas at community art engagement events. The creative process of <br />creating the murals, masks and portraits are also part of the project. A large canvas roll <br />will be provided for participants to paint in silhouettes and other images <br />connecting/intersecting one another. Participants will use colors, patterns, shapes and <br />lines that represent their pride, roots, experiences, hopes dreams etc. Roses will be <br />adorned around and in the mural to represent the beautiful possibilities of the Santa <br />Ana's youth. Participants will write about their artistic contribution to the mural and it's <br />meaning. The result will be six 5' x 9' youth murals representative of various Santa Ana <br />neighborhoods. The intersecting silhouettes represents our connection with our <br />neighbors and communities. <br />Brian Peterson/Faces of Santa Ana will paint five portraits of faces of Santa Ana. The <br />art carries the power to love, humanize, and share stories that support positive support <br />for our residents. Brian will befriend and paint portraits that will reveal the beauty and <br />underappreciated assets of our city. We draw our inspiration from the Tupac Shakar <br />poem called The Rose that Grew from Concrete, "Did you hear about the rose that grew <br />from a crack in the concrete?... Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one <br />else ever cared." The five portraits will be displayed at our final presentation event with <br />stories. <br />25D-17 <br />