Call for Artists – Plaza Santa Ana Community Mural

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• They can thank the Chase family, Downtown Inc., East End Partners for the wall space, the agreement with the city for the permit and seed money. Now it's become a stupid political game of who gets control and how they can make money off of a what once was a simple community mural to have been completed in a weekend. What a joke. It will only be about one community, the Hispanic community. It's going to just blend in with all the awesome new changes! Welcome 4th Street Market! Goodbye Fiesta Marketplace.

  • Anonymous, You claim that that this is all about the Hispanic Community having a weekend for a community mural. Glad to see that you think Santa Ana's Hispanic Community is deserving of a singular weekend in the East End. After that, Bye Bye.

• When all is said and done. The former Latinos will have one "Community Mural" and perhaps one or two Latino themed Restaurant/Bars. In a year the "temporary" mural as ordered by interim City Manager O' Roarke will be erased.
  Good Bye former "Community" of Latinos of East End Fourth Street. The joke was on you!
  That's why some of us refuse to participate in these obnoxious gestures towards "The Community"
  They insult our intelligence!

• Nothing says "artist" like going to the city and begging the council to get involved. Remember when artists used to just paint?

  • We are not begging. We are requesting and with the law on our side (sunshine ordinance). And artists having involved in politics since the 1930's in the US... Around the world? ALWAYS!! http://www.artbusiness.com/art-artist-activism-protest-history-demonstration.html

  • There was no begging going on and no king sitting on his thrown giving table scraps as a gesture of kindness to the people. The city own the plaza and East End Properties own the building. The artists are not tagging the wall. Ya gotta do it right. Oh Lord Mateo, do show us the way. We are just a simple people from the village and want to be as you most certainly are. Your self-fluffing, too good for the community, don't even hand him a paint brush, attitude is so dull. The property owners did not come up with the idea, they were approached. Obnoxious gestures? You could use a vacation. You have so much responsibility to protect the artists and the community, you must be exhausted.

• It is Tiring.
  Having to serve the community where everybody else falls short. But I am not Gilgamesh. That is Mayor Pulido. He has to step up and actually assume responsibility where everybody else runs away. The Downtown Creative Community that brought many back to Santa Ana (A,K.A. Artist Village) is his to loose or save.

  The East End is no Artist Village!
  it is the parasitic Co-Option of the Artist Village.
  Using Artists and "Community" enthusiasts at vain to control and consume masses of consumers. Uncreative, Unimaginative, urban consumers. "Brave New Urbanists" as G. calls them. Or have we passed that point in our gentrification model all ready? New Urbanistas devoid of bravery? creativity?
  Heartbreaking.

  • Well, no more mural to discuss now. Thanks to those darn film fiesta, wanna be just like a real film festival but are far from it, don't even live in Santa Ana, cry-baby, whiny, lying, creepy fetish, bugged out eyes, gangster tattooed, nasty duo. They should have kept their huge elephant noses out of it. Jerks.

• It appears you are thinking of Andrew Galvan and his Huntington Beach girlfriend, who works for WCA.

• There are other walls in the city that do not serve as temporary distraction for East End culture make over.

  • And we would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!

  • The interview w/tag team mean regarding why they stuck their noses in the business is funny. Funny that they prove over and over again by their own words how ridiculous they are. What they did to help squash the mural moving forward was so mean. I guess their invitation to paint was no in the mail and they got their feelings hurt. They suck!

    • The only group that stopped the mural was WCA, by misrepresenting the project, backroom deals, having no implementation plan, lack of experience and attacking artists and community members who asked real questions about transparency and public process. Now their Anonymous supporters are viciously bullying and bashing those that stood up to defend me. Thank you, Interim City Manager Rojas for protecting me and the City's public assets! I look forward to having a great mural on me that we can all be proud of!

      • If these walls could talk.
        Stop the antagonism on all sides please.
        Or paint a Mural image of two Heads with blindfolds beating each other over the Head and noose attached to neck and capitalistas kicking the chairs out from underneath them and calling it "Art".
        Not you Pedroza, the other kind.

• Got away with what Old Man?