the street is our gallery

Posted: 07/14/2018

Expiring: 31/12/2018

who calls: Jason Saboury

contact email: [email protected]

contact number: 8188762907

website: @santeepublicgallery

location: Los Angeles

the prize: Voluntary

Street Art project curated by Santee Gallery on Santee st / 18th in Los Angeles. Hi, my name is Jason Saboury. For the past two months I have been curating a public gallery located on the corner of Santee St/18th St. in Los Angeles. This is a passion project aimed to provide public art to an at risk population, clean up and maintain surrounding areas, as well as provide educational opportunities in art for youth at a local High School just across the street (while expanding to other school districts).

This started off as five art friends coming together to begin creating art that pushes our boundaries but also of the public consciousness. Every artist has their respective crafts, and are unique to themselves, but how all 30 have come together in unity is by embodying the meaning of humanity by always giving back selflessly, this is our way, for this neighborhood. This projects placement is unique in the sense that it lies on two district lines in the county. I feel that there can be a strong bond in the arts if these two districts join us in the overall goal of setting up a paint legal zone for the space.

Once every square foot of available space is filled I’d like to move forward with getting the murals thickly covered in anti graffiti coating and petition the city in this direction.

I am on the constant hunt for artists, even though it seems they are hunting me now. The project will be ongoing and spreading to the direction of the Ktownwallz project with the artist ESPY and the Alley Project with Jason Ostro, the city is too large for any one person to color it, I strongly believe that building alliances with these two local projects will allow us to expand further and with more prominence together combating a cleaner more beautiful city. Thank you for your time.