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ART BEAT\Art's on the wall.


Byline: Lori Moody

The Social and Public Art Resource Center
For other things with the acronym "SPARC", see SPARC (disambiguation).
The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) is a non-profit community arts center based in Venice, California.
 (SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill ), and the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles (MCLA MCLA Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
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MCLA Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles
) have announced this year's tour schedule of area murals.

SPARC, a nonprofit arts group founded in 1976, will begin the series Jan. 28 with a trip to "The Great Wall of Los Angeles The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a mural designed by Judith Baca and executed by community youth and artists coordinated by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). " in Tujunga and other murals created in the organization's Neighborhood Pride Program. Other SPARC tours are of graffiti art (March 24); murals by women artists (May 26); West L.A. and Venice murals (July 28); Chicano murals in East L.A. (Sept. 22) and murals and altars in Pico-Union, East and South-Central L.A. and an anniversary procession in honor of La Virgen de Guadalupe (Dec. 8).

MCLA's tours will include a day with muralist Terry Schoonhoven (Feb. 24), Hollywood and Koreatown murals (April 27), historical landmarks of Black L.A. (June 22), Jewish murals (Aug. 24), Lompoc and Ventura murals (Oct. 12-13) and Metro Rail art (Nov. 23).

The tours are $25 per person; $20 for SPARC/MCLA members, students, seniors and groups. For information about SPARC tours, call (310) 822-9560. MCLA can be reached by calling (310) 470-8864 or (213) 257-4544.

Landmark workshop

The Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department is sponsoring a free workshop Jan. 20 to provide information about the city's landmark designation process.

The workshop is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon at the San Antonio Winery The San Antonio Winery is the only remaining winery in the city of Los Angeles, and has operated since 1917. It only produces white wine. However, it does not grow the grapes at its Los Angeles location as its former vineyards have been developed with dense industry. , 737 Lamar St. which was given historical-cultural monument status in 1966. A no-host lunch is planned after the workshop. For reservations, call (213) 485-5343.

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The Service Council of Pacific Asia Museum The Pacific Asia Museum is an Asian art museum located at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California, United States.

The museum was founded by Grace Nicholson who was a dealer in Native American and, later, Asian art and antiques.
 in Pasadena is looking for Looking for

In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with.
 volunteers to work in the museum bookstore, give garden tours, help at special events and in the library and work in various departments.

Interviews are scheduled Jan. 27 and Feb. 3. For information, call Rebekah Gibson at (818) 449-2742, Ext. 14.

In other museum news, a new gallery dedicated to supporters Margot and Hans Ries opens Jan. 24. The gallery will house the couple's recent gift of Southeast Asian ceramics. For information, call (818) 449-2742.
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