ART SHARE LA – LET’S PAINT THE TOWN
When the City of LA locked down indefinitely on a Friday the 13th in March 2020 for COVID-19 quarantine, many artists and business owners found themselves out of work.
Art Share LA utilized its extensive network and decades-long history for creative initiatives to connect them to one another, launching Let’s Paint the Town, a quarantine mural project and fundraiser hiring muralists of various career levels to beautify boarded up buildings. These temporal works across the city got artists paid as studies were released stating that as many as 42% of jobs will never come back. By June 2020, over 50 murals were painted by 20 artists stretching from DTLA to Studio City. The project was created and curated alongside muralist Jeremy Novy.
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