EL MURALEANDO

WHAT IS IT?

Its Significance Today

Today, the art project serves mostly for the youth around the area, providing them with free access to art classes and materials. Most of the funds are obtained from art purchasesmadebythepublic.Whenanart piece is sold, fifty percent of the sale goes to the artist, and the remaining fifty percent is placed into the children’s funds, to buy artsuppliesandextramaterialsforthem..

El Muraleando is an art project that transformedawasteland,intoacommunity art center. Indeed, prior to its embellishment, the site used to be a water tank and a garbage deposit lot for the community. However, local artists saw beyond; the potential that the area had pushed them to buy the lot and repurpose it. From almost all the pieces of garbage came a beautiful art piece or furniture. A genuine involvement in the building of the Muraleando brought government attention, becauseoftheingenuityofthecommunity.

Observation

One memorable thing about the Muraleando is the implication of the community. The people that received us each had careers in domains unrelated to art, but they spaced out time to be there, and make art, for the youth’sbenefit.