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
Lpuis Cameron and David Burke, with 4th and 5th graders. Space scene with cartooni characters. Inspired by the school-sponsored 1997 trip to Space Camp in San Jose by the school's 115 5th graders. Photo © Robin Dunitz
Northeast LA, Highland Park
Religious and Gang Imagery, low rider, Virgin of Guadalupe. Photo © Robin Dunitz
Mid City
Old low-rider car and truck, Jesus, and Gothic lettering (i.e. "Cruising it low, Cruising it slow") Photo © Robin Dunitz
Hollywood, Silverlake, Echo Park
Five different pieces with different themes. There's a religious memorial, a gloomy scene of a castle, a forest landscape with an Olmec head and a Mayan pyramid, some wildstyle writing, and three classic trucks. Photo...
San Fernando Valley
Portrait of the first building at this site, painted in celebration of the school's 100th anniversary. In 1984 Rodriguez did two other exterior murals on campus around themes related to Mexican American history. Photo...
Northeast LA, Highland Park
Artists: Juan Hector Ponce, Mute, Sesor, Rank, and Sloth. Photo © Ian Robertson-Salt
San Fernando Valley
Daniel Dodd, artist and associate director of Art Share, began this three mural project in 2002 and executed one mural a year until finishing in 2004. Art Share is a community based afterschool arts...
Downtown LA
From left to right: "Fire In My Mind" by Axa (Axayacati Arturo Nevarez), "Darwin" by Man One, "Chew On It" by Vyal, "In Tune with The Sun and The Moon" by Vyal.
1. Fire in My Mind: "This piece to me is a...
Northeast LA, Highland Park