Art Center Workshop Set to Design Garden

The Social and Public Art Resource Center is sponsoring the first of a series of studio workshops Saturday on designing a Korean-style garden in Ardmore Park.

The garden will surround a cultural monument: a large sculpture of four folding screens, which will be built as part of the “Cultural Explainers: Portals, Bridges and Gateways,” a project of the arts organization.

Three monuments are set to be constructed in parks across the city, each reflecting a minority community affected by the 1992 riots in Los Angeles--Korean American, Latino and African American.

The first workshop, to be held at 1 p.m. at Radio Korea, 624 Kingsley Ave., will be an introduction to the Koreatown garden project.

Subsequent meetings will involve building models of ideas for the garden. Landscape artist Shannon Shapiro said she hopes to showcase all the models once the garden is completed.