Universal City Metro Subway Station Art, Los Angeles, CA 2000
Located at the Campo de Cahuenga historic site
Margaret Garcia was selected by a community consensus for the Metro Station at the Campo de Cahuenga, the location of the Capitulation of Cahuenga, where Mexican California was ceded to the United States after U.S. forces invaded Mexico (California). Margaret’s artwork, titled The Trees of Califa tells the story of California leading unto the Capitulation - basically a history of this part of Mexico and the war with the U.S.
Told on four columns, in handmade ceramic tiles, create a time line of events featuring the principal characters - California Governor Pio Pico, California Army Commander Andres Pico, John C. Fremont, Dona Bernarda Ruiz and a host of assorted U.S. Army commanders. Andres Pico and John C. Fremont signed the agreement authored by Dona Ruiz. John C. Fremont was courtmartialed for going over the heads of the other officers.
The story is told in Spanish and English and Margaret and the station architect Kate Diamond, won a design excellence award from the American Institute of Architects.
Two Blue Whales mural. 1978.
Intersection of Venice Blvd. and Beethoven Street, Los Angeles
The famous image from Agnes Varda’s movie Mur Murs. 1981. Varda filmed iconic scenes here twice — first in Mur Murs (1981) and again nearly 30 years later in The Beaches of Agnès (2008).
Still there after all these years. Thanks to the neighborhood and the building owners.
La Gloria Molina mural. 2024. St. Louis Street,50 feet south of First Street, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.
Gloria Molina (RIP) is a Southern California hero. A politician whose fights for justice, particularly low income and disadvantaged East LOS Angeles. As a State of California Assembly-person, she stopped a prison being built in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, across the Los Angeles River from Downtown Los Angeles. As a County of Los Angeles Supervisor she stopped Los Angeles County hospital from sterilizing immigrant women without their permission. The list of her accomplishments is lengthy. Margaret was commissioned for this work by Boyle Heights theater CASA 0101 and funded by an Eastside Inititative grant.