THE STOREFRONT PROJECT
Date
1991
Location
Boarded-up storefronts and construction barricades along Pine St. (between 1st and 7th streets)
Long Beach
Media Notes
Acrylic on plywood
Description
The following ten portable murals were created by 12 artists and installed in downtown Long Beach as part of the Beautification of Downtown Project. Each mural will be removed as the space it fronts is leased, sold or torn down. The art works will then either be relocated elsewhere in the city or returned to the artist.
CHARLIE PARKER'S FORTY ACRES
Broadway at Promenade North
140 square feet
Ben Valenzuela
The title refers to the "40 acres and a mule" promised each freed slave after the Civil War. The mural depicts a mule and jazz great Charlie Parker separated by a pre-Columbian arch.
UNTITLED (SILHOUETTED MUSICIANS)
Promenade North, just north of Broadway
Elliott Pinkney
Silhouetted musicians.
THE JAZZ MEN
Pine Ave. and 3rd St., southeast corner
Joseph Giri
Untitled
Broadway at Promenade North
Jaye Whitworth and Jen Grey, assisted by Kamran Assadi, Rob Gadient, Madora Takada.
IN ALL THIS REDEVELOPMENT DON'T FORGET THE YOUTH
Pine Ave. near 3rd St.
Keith Williams
Eight squares of things relevant to kids a bowl of Fruit Loops cereal, a football, sneakers, boy wearing a mouseketeer hat, and someone reading.
UNTITLED (PALM TREES)
Promenade North, just north of Broadway
Heather Green with students
Palm trees in a circle, surrounded by zigs and zags in electric colors.
WHAT CAN WE TRUST?
Pine Ave. between 6th and 7th streets
Nova Color acrylic, 8' x 75'
Karena Massengill and Mayde Herberg
While the mural was being painted, passersby were invited to write their answers to the question, "What Can We Trust?" inside a silhouette of someone reading a newspaper. The mural is located across the street from the office of the Long Beach Press-Telegram newspaper.
THE MUSE WALL
Pine and Broadway
Jorge Sicre
Four colossal human heads, each 6-7 feet tall.
UNTITLED (TROPICAL LANDSCAPE)
Pine and Broadway
Jill L. Truair
Tropical landscape with flamingoes and sailboats.
UNTITLED (SHAKING HANDS)
Promenade North, just north of Broadway
Kenny Leach, with Vue Her, Adrian Hernandez, Trace Fukuhara, Heather Green.
An African-American and a European-American shaking hands, along with these words by Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is no longer a choice, my friend, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
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