Reframe: City Hall Mural - What do you see you here?

Reservations for this online event are required and can be made here.

Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s controversial mural in Santa Monica’s City Hall uses images and text to tell one perspective on the origin story of Santa Monica and its notable events and people. What do these images say? Is there anything missing? How could they be reinterpreted for 2023? What other stories do we need to tell about this place?

This workshop introduces a feedback activity sheet: a tool to reflect on the images in the mural and imagine potential responses. We will also share resources for learning more about the mural and Santa Monica history for a variety of audiences and age groups. The program is geared toward educators, parents and community groups, who are invited to use the interactive worksheet and visioning tool to spark discussion with groups of all ages.

Note: not an all-ages event - focused on adult participants.

This event is brought to you by the Santa Monica Public Library in partnership with Santa Monica Cultural Affairs and Meztli Projects.

Zoom registration here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82442027365?pwd=TmZZUythRS9Zd3d4c1Iza2JDZjR4UT09

This activity is part of the Reframe: City Hall Mural project event series organized by Meztli Projects, an Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative centering Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles by using arts-based strategies to support, advocate for, and organize to highlight Native and Indigenous Artists and systems-impacted peoples. Meztli Projects’ facilitation team is Joel Garcia, Robin Garcia Ph.D., Susannah Laramee Kidd Ph.D., and Rosten Woo.

As part of its Acknowledge and Reframe Together (Reframe) initiative, the City of Santa Monica has embarked on a public process to consider the meaning, impact and potential responses to the WPA-era mural by Stanton Macdonald-Wright in the lobby of historic City Hall. The Reframe: City Hall Mural project offers a series of civic memory conversations and activities to connect Santa Monicans' diverse histories and contemporary experiences. This process explores representation in public art and how community stories are told so that we can develop creative ideas for future events, public art, and policy updates. Each event will offer a different way to engage with the process of considering the mural. The whole arc of learning events will provide community members with the tools to help amend and celebrate Santa Monica history and take part in Reframe! More information on the City Hall Mural project here.