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
Artists: Ben Valenzuela and Trace Tres Fukuhara, and 29 youth assistants. Photo-realist depiction of commerce, industry, and recreation in West Long Beach.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Long Beach
Susan Sirl and local youth. A long series of patterns and designs adjacent to Stephens Junior High School. The artist was also a teacher at the school.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Long Beach
Blue Whales. Photo © Ian Robertson-Salt
West LA, Santa Monica, Venice
Completed in 11 days, this giant mural of migrating whales includes nine life-size gray whales, the artist's first blue whale (100 feet long), plus bottlenose dolphins and kelp forests 70 feet high. Southern...
South Bay
Three life-size California Gray whales. Painted in three days.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Hollywood, Silverlake, Echo Park
Two life-size blue whales.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Hollywood, Silverlake, Echo Park
Artists: Five local high schools and the assistance of teachers/artists Joann Carrabbio and Marco Elliott. These images integrate the so-called "high art" forms of Cubism and Pop Art with HipHop street art, while...
West LA, Santa Monica, Venice
A delicate work about religion and pachucos on a pair of old garage doors.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
East LA
A segment of skyline viewed through a tunnel. Above the buildings a flat human silhouette hangs, frozen in space from a metal frame.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Long Beach
Painted to decry gang violence, the Wilhall mural at the Wilmington Recreation Center has been a symbol of peace in the Wilmington community for the past 28 years. In 1996 I was asked to restore (repaint) the mural by a...
Long Beach