MCLA maintains a FREE database of Los Angeles' Mural History linking artists, murals and neighborhoods. The foundation of this database was shaped by Robin Dunitz' book "Street Gallery", the first true compilation of Los Angeles public murals. The MCLA website allows submissions of murals created recently in Los Angeles, forming an ever growing archive joining the historic with the new.
To email your submissions, please send high resolution digital images along with the name of artist(s), location, year size and medium to: muralconservancyLA@gmail.com
Trace Tres Fukuhara, assisted by Michelle Saucedo, Andrew Gulmatico, Guillermo Avalos, Dareth Morm. Two larger-than-life musicians on each end with past and present Long Beach in the background. Photo © Rich Puchalsky.
Long Beach
Artists: Carlos Callejo and Raúl Gonzalez. A juxtaposition of concepts revolving around education, community, and natural beauty. Photo © Ian Robertson-Salt
South Central LA
The mural uses the life cycle of the butterfly as a metaphor for the role of education in a child's life.
"Born in the world a larva child.
Into the chrysalis of education i go.
Shrouded with knowledge I spread my...
San Fernando Valley
A blending of Aztec, Mayan, Native American, African and other cultural iconography represents indigenous cultures in unity with each other. Quetzalcoatl, the ancient Mexican's mystical feathered serpent god, winds his...
Northeast LA, Highland Park
"This mural was a collaborative design with youth from the Mayor's GRYD program. It reflects the culture and activity that youth today are a part of, from Mykes cafe to Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural and Bookstore....
San Fernando Valley
The diversity of people infected with the AIDS virus is depicted through five silhouetted figures, plus an African American mother holding her young child, and a black and Latino man embracing. The Minority AIDS Project...
South Central LA
A scene of the Spanish arrival on Mexican shores, including a confrontation between the Spanish and the Aztecs. Moctezuma was the emporer of the Aztecs at the time if the Spanish Conquest. Photo: © Robin Dunitz
East LA
Commissioned by auto repair station it was on. The right hand side of the mural is a self-portrait of the artist. Painting brushing is singing his drawing. The building was an auto shape near General Hospital and 5 FWY...
East LA
A cruise through space and time by ancient Mayan Astronomers as well as modern-day scientists such as Albert Einstein. In 1986 they added a memorial to the Challenger astronauts, killed when the shuttle blew up just...
West LA, Santa Monica, Venice