Title supplied by cataloger. In 1981 Wolken was commissioned by the Downtown Women's Center (refuge for the women of Skid Row) to create a 12 by 80 foot mural on the exterior brick wall of the Center. When one of the area's periodic earthquakes destroyed that mural, she replaced it with a new one, acrylic on masonry, 2 panels, 6' x 100'. The Downtown Women's Center building was condemned in 1987 by the Whittier earthquake. The building has since been torn down and the mural was demolished. A portion of the 80 foot acrylic on brick mural painted by Ann Alexandra Wolken on the Women's Center building at 325 South Los Angeles Street. The mural is an "x-ray" of the activities that go on inside the center and was based on a sketchbook that Wolken produced about the women. The women of the Center also participated in the process of painting the mural.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Public art--California--Los Angeles Urban beautification--California--Los Angeles Women in art Murals--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Wolken, Ann Alexandra,1947-
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