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Lucila Villaseñor Grijalva
Lucila Villaseñor Grijalva is a Chicana muralist who was born in Los Angeles, California. Her art style is inspired by graffiti art. Background Lucila Villaseñor Grijalva was born in Los Angeles, California. She was in a Mexican Catholic household in the Maravilla Housing Projects neighborhood. In 1953, after graduating from Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights, she started a year-long art apprenticeship with Fred Giglioli, an Italian American artist. In 1961, se earned an associate degree from East Los Angeles City College. She attended the Otis Art Institute with other prominent Chicanx artists such as Carlos Almaraz and Judithe Hernandez. Eventually, she earned a bachelor's degree from California State University, Fullerton. Throughout her academic education pursuits, Villaseñor Grijalva was married and raising a family. At first, she studied art, then decided to pursue art education and eventually, she decided to be a social worker and a public artist. Art Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
