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NEW MURALS HAVE POPPED UP IN SANTA ANA, HUNTINGTON BEACH & LAGUNA BEACH
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Brian Peterson, a designer for KIA Motors and a resident of Santa Ana, created a mural adorning the entire back of The Orchard, the new housing for chronically homeless, as part of the development project depicting actual residents' images and comments (with their permission). Peterson also created a nonprofit group, Faces of Santa Ana, that aspires to help the homeless through art. Read more here.
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Huntington Beach residents Dan McNab and Hector "HEK" Valdez, tattoo artists at the Tattoo Gallery on Beach Boulevard, created their first mural, an 8-foot-tall, 16-foot-wide Great White Shark on a temporary construction wall, with the permission of the property owner. They hope it will inspire more landlords to allow artists to add murals to their properties.
Read more here.
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In Laguna Beach, one artist seems to have tested the old adage that "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission. The fate of "Main Beach Mandala," created by Jeff Lavinsky, however, is in the hands of the Laguna Beach Arts Commission, which will meet on February 12 to decide its fate. It was created on private property before obtaining permission from the owner and learning of the permit process, but a permit was then filed, and the owner, who likes the work, has been assured that the artist will take responsibility for maintaining it.
Read more here.
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Scott Mitchell has been hired to manage the $20 million planetarium slated to open later this year at Orange Coast College, scheduled to open in September. He previously served as the acting director and assistant director at the Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium, part of the Emera Astronomy Center at the University of Maine. The 12,000-square-foot structure will boast an array of features, including a Foucault pendulum, which demonstrates the earth's rotation, and a six-foot-diameter globe that will illustrate climate change, ocean temperature, atmospheric systems and weather in real time. Other amenities include a 125-seat immersion theater, a science exhibit hall and a telescope farm.
More here.
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A new novella by Kevin Staniec, founder and director of the new
1888 Center, a literary arts center in downtown Orange, has been published. Staniec was honored by ArtsOC at the OC Arts Awards as Emerging Arts Leader back in October 2017. Details about the book and a live podcast recording on February 11 at the 1888 Center
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California taxpayers can directly contribute to the Keep Arts in Schools Fund through their California 2017 Individual Tax Returns (due by April 17, 2018). Find out how to do it here.
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