Date
1991
Location
Olive Vista Middle School, exterior auditorium wall
14600 Tyler St. (mural faces Borden)
Sylmar
Media Notes
Acrylic, 14' x 60'
Velazquez and 12 youth assistants
Description
Three talented young athletes, victims of gang violence, are memorialized. Their portraits are at the far right. To their left, as a reminder that it can happen to anyone, are children playing who still live in the neighborhood. This mural project developed out of the anguish of the artist over more than a dozen violent deaths of youth he knew during a recent two-year period. The project was fully embraced by the families of those killed.
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