The mission of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is to advance arts, culture, and creativity throughout LA County. We fulfill our mission by providing services and support in areas including grants and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations; professional development opportunities; commissioning civic artworks and managing the County’s civic art collection; implementing countywide arts education initiatives; research and evaluation; career pathways in the creative economy; free community programs; and cross sector creative strategies that address civic issues. This work is framed by the County’s Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative and a longstanding commitment to fostering access to the arts.
Artwork Site:
Los Nietos Community and Senior Center
Supervisorial District:
4
Current Status:
On view
About the Artwork:
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.Show Less
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 ... Show More
About the Artist:
Laura Vazquez Rodriguez was born in Los Angeles and raised in the small community of Pico Rivera. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specializing in Illustration, from California State University, Long Beach. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas and carved wood panels, Rodriguez is best known for using strong and continuous lines to construct graphic images centered on themes of spirituality, life and death, love and healing, and mother and child. Her artwork has been showcased on book covers, educational posters, documentaries and periodicals, and is included in numerous private and public art collections. She has created art for CABE (California Association of Bilingual Education) and AMAE (Association of Mexican American Educators). Her most recent works include a logo for the City of Los Angeles and the cover art for Roberto Rodriguez’s book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas.
To learn more visit: https://lauravrodriguez.net/Show Less
Laura Vazquez Rodriguez was born in Los Angeles and raised in the small community of Pico Rivera. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specializing in Illustration, from California State University, Long Beach. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas and carved wood panels, Rodriguez is best known for using strong and continuous lines to construct graphic images centered on themes of spirituality, life and death, love and healing, and mother and child. Her artwork has been showcased o... Show More
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