Artist Hired to Paint Mural in Community
A Sun Valley group has hired an artist to paint a mural of the community’s history on the side of a local hardware store at Sunland Boulevard and San Fernando Road.
The artist, Joe Gonzalez, who has painted several murals in East Los Angeles as well as a commemorative work of the 1984 Summer Olympics, was selected by the Sun Valley Community Venture Council at its monthly meeting Wednesday night, said Jan Liptak, the council’s new chairwoman.
The council, formed by the United Way of the San Fernando Valley, will spend $10,000--half of its annual operating budget--for the project. The mural will be the group’s first major project since it was formed last year to deal with a lack of services in Sun Valley.
No schedule has been set for Gonzalez to start on the mural, which will be painted on the side of Roscoe Hardware. Liptak said it is hoped that high school art students and gang members will be brought into the project.
The mural will be a history of the Sun Valley area told in five panels--from prehistoric times and American Indian habitation to the times of Spanish missionaries, stagecoaches, frontiers and finally the 20th Century, Liptak said.
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