Hispanic muralists
Artists adorn LA walls with their colorful creations.
Hispanic muralists
"Decolonize" by artist Kristy Sandoval decorates a wall in the Pacoima section of Los Angeles. The mural took advantage of an existing barred window and parasol to show a woman freeing Monarch butterflies and parrots from a cage. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Hispanic muralists
Muralist Levi Ponce poses next to his mural, an adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, in the Pacoima section of Los Angeles. Ponce is noted for his public murals throughout Southern California's San Fernando Valley. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Kristy Sandoval
Muralist Kristy Sandoval works on a painting at the Pacoima Community Youth Culture Center in Los Angeles. Sandoval one of the Hispanic muralists who began to emerge after the end of a regulation prohibiting murals on private properties in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Hispanic muralists
This mural of actor Danny Trejo, painted by muralist Levi Ponce, is in the Pacoima section of Los Angeles know as the Mural Mile. The young Hispanic muralists are in many ways a continuation of the generation of Hispanic artists who contributed to the development of the Chicano movement in the early '70s when Los Angeles was the capital of American muralists. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Hispanic muralists
Muralist Kristy Sandoval, top left, is helped by volunteers on her mural at the Pacoima Community Youth Culture Center. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Levi Ponce
Muralist Levi Ponce paints a portrait of Mexican artist Diego Rivera in the Pacoima section of Los Angeles. Ponce is noted for his public murals throughout Southern California's San Fernando Valley. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Hispanic muralists
Levi Ponce's mural "The Day the Music Died," is a tribute to Pacoima's residents Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly, who were killed in a plane accident, in the Pacoima section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Levi Ponce
DJs play music near a mural of Salvador Dali, painted by Levi Ponce, at a community event of muralists and hip-hop artists in the Pacoima section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Hispanic muralists
This mural of late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was painted by Los Angeles muralist Levi Ponce in the Pacoima section of Los Angeles known as the Mural Mile.(AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Hispanic muralists
“Luminaries of Pantheism,” by artist Levi Ponce, is in the Venice Beach section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)