1999 BUS TOURS POSTPONED
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| The Tour Committee, which has run the successful and highly regarded Mural Bus Tours for years, has talked about doing a video featuring some of the best murals and muralists that riders have been seeing for nearly as many years. So, for a change, the group, headed by Robin Dunitz and Jim Kenney, will take the first half of 1999 off of the usual schedule of tours in order to work on the long dreamt of tape. The volunteers have been developing a shooting script, and are making arrangements to produce sample footage in order to generate financial backing for the project. The goal is to produce about a 30-minute documentary that will be of broadcast quality and that mural fans will be proud to add to their libraries (and which will become another in the every-growing catalogue of gift items offered by the Mural Conservancy). No, this does not spell the beginning of the end of the tours. The abbreviated schedule will be announced in the Spring, 1999 Newsletter. While occasionally the tours have failed to sell out--usually, to be honest, when a tour is more innovative and less tried and true--they remain a popular, and important, part of MCLA’s efforts to aid public appreciation of the Southland’s public murals. While no decision has been made, one concern being wrestled with by the Committee is the increasing cost of the bus rentals. But the central thought has been to bring some semblance of the experience enjoyed by participants on the road for a day of mural art and muralist talk. If you think you may have something worthwhile to contribute to the Tour Committee’s work please contact volunteer coordinator Al Gorsky by calling MCLA at (213) 481-1186 or completing and sending the volunteers’ form that appears on page 7 of the Newsletter. If you might be interested in becoming and angel for the video project please give Robin Dunita a call direct at (310) 470-8864. |
NEW CAC, L.A. COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION GRANTS
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| Grants from the California Arts Council [CAC] and the L.A. County Arts Commission will aid the Mural Conservancy’s Mural Rescue Program [MRP] and Web site respectively. The modest CAC help increases from the usual $2,000 to $4,000 for 1998/99. We’ll take what we can get to add an extra mural to the MRP! The County Arts Commission kicks in with a two-year grant in excess of $3,000 per year that will help us continue to add content to http://www.lamurals.org, most visibly at least doubling the number of images accompanying the mural pages. |
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FROM MURAL ARTISTS
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Send packets to: Arts and Business Council of Santa Paula c/o Howard Bolton 1401 E. Main Street Santa Paula, CA 93060 For more information call 805-525-5868. |
