PETER QUEZADA
Biographical Information
Quezada graduated from John Marshall High School and attended Los Angeles City College. For ten years he worked as a senior customer service representative at a local bank. In 1978 he began painting out graffiti in his spare time just because he couldn't stand looking at it every day as he drove to and from work. In 1986 he formed Neighborhoods for Peace, a youth counseling program of which he is the director. In 1988 Quezada began teaching himself to draw and doing simple murals. He was a supervisor and graffiti removal coordinator for the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. Since 1996 he has been a youth counselor through several local city council offices. Art has been his weapon in the struggle to keep kids away from gangs, tagging crews, drugs, violence, etc.
Mural Credits
Betty Boop
Clinica Medica Familiar (Untitled)
Cruising It Low (photo)
Death as a Skeleton (Untitled) (photo)
The Dodger Mural
Don't Shed the Tears of a Clown (photo)
Emiliano Zapata (Untitled)
Fanciful Landscape (Untitled)
Get High on Life (photo)
If You Wanna Dance, You've Got to Pay the Fiddler (photo)
In Loving Memory of Robert F. Kennedy God Bless (photo)
Jesus Kneeling (Untitled) (photo)
A Little Bit of Art Never Hurt Anybody (Untitled) (photo)
Memorial of a Fallen Gang Member (Untitled)
Mexican Legend of the Sleeping Woman (Untitled)
Operation Desert Storm (Untitled)
Panther
To End Gang Violence (Photos)
Welcome 2 Hollywood
Year of the Tiger
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