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The Los Nietos Community Senior Center, formerly Los Nietos Library, was rededicated as a Community and Senior Center in 2017. As part of the renovation plans for Los Nietos Community Senior Center, the Civic Art Division selected four artists, Wayne Healy, Pola Lopez, Andrea Ramirez, and Laura Vasquez Rodriguez, to provide artworks for the newly renovated facility. The artworks include twelve paintings and limited-edition prints placed in the Center's entrance corridor and community room. They consist of figurative works reflecting a diversity of ages in family friendly depictions of community life and activities consistent with the Center's programming.

Pola Lopez is a self-taught artist working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Early in her career, Lopez was an active member of La Cofradía de Arte y Artesanos, an organization and brotherhood of Hispano artists promoting awareness and opportunities to share their creative cultural work in a market where they were largely underserved and underrecognized. From 2003-2020, Lopez worked in Los Angeles where she cultivated a deep connection to community and established 2 Tracks Studio, a public studio and exhibition space in Highland Park. As a professional muralist and mentor, she has completed several student-assisted murals with at-risk youth, in addition to sixteen of her own community mural projects throughout LA. Today she is recognized as one of the leading contemporary Chicana artists in the U.S., honored as the “official portrait artist” of her native New Mexico to the White House in 2006. Lopez’s vibrant abstract and figurative paintings include an eclectic mix of traditional symbols drawn from her Southwest heritage combined with an Indigenous feminine perspective. To learn more visit: https://www.polalopez.com/