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# Touched by an angel
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/touched-by-an-angel/
- Published: 2002-07-22T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:33:32.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Santa Monica Place mall has joined with the Los Angeles-based “Community of Angels” to bring an angel to Santa Monica. The shopping center, located at Third Street and Broadway, will donate space to artist Liz Ryan for a gallery, where she will create a “comic book angel” for charity. Shoppers will be able to view her work in progress from July 8-30 on the second level at suite 237\. Ryan, who lives in Hollywood, is one of 200 artists to take part in the popular art-for-charity project. Shoppers will be able to ask questions as Ryan hand paints the six-foot tall angel.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/55/9f/559f9abc-8372-4a2e-8c2d-27386da4e363/content/images/2026/10/072202-05_01.jpg)

to the Daily Press Artists Liz Ryan, left back, and Tracy Corinne observe artwork of angels by children. (Photo: Franklin Smith/Special)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 22, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/072202.pdf?ref=smdp.com)