The expansion of Virginia Avenue Park will be seen through the eyes of students from Edison, Grant, McKinley and Rogers elementary schools, as well as older teenagers from the Police Activities League and the Pico Youth and Family center.
With the help of artist Ruby Mandanero, the students have produced seven mural panels that depict new aspects of the expanded Virginia Avenue Park. A reception for the youth painters and the volunteer artists will be held at the Edison Elementary School cafeteria on June 17, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Edison Elementary is located at 2425 Kansas Ave.
Ruby Mandanero, a local Santa Monica artist, donated her time to work on the murals. All the students will attend the reception and see each other’s mural panels for the first time.
The seven 5-by-6-foot murals will be installed the following week along the Virginia Avenue Park construction fence. Mural scenes depict the farmers’ market, new park equipment, a music studio scene in the new youth center and other park life.
For more information, contact Betty Macias or Concepcion Rechtjaid at (310) 458-8688.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 11, 2004. Read the original PDF.