A few blocks away, the Lamp Community Art Project shines like a beacon of creativity in an otherwise bleak section of Skid Row.\u00a0 Hayk Makhmuryan, the Director, is enthused about his program and the people it serves. The art studio is open 3 days a week for a few hours each afternoon. The small, narrow room is filled with art work, supplies and all kinds of painting paraphernalia. While I was there, three people were working on their paintings and were happy t o show them to me.<\/p>\n
I spent some time talking with Emery who was creating a stylized portrait of Marilyn Monroe.\u00a0 Emery was originally from Phoenix and ended up on Skid Row several years ago. Since then, he has lived in shelters\u00a0 and dealing with his disability. He loves to paint and comes to the studio in his wheel chair whenever he can get there. Emery makes a few dollars selling his paintings, his images of Kobe Bryan and Obama are quite popular.<\/p>\n
Emery Self Portrait<\/p><\/div>\n
I am working with Lillian and Hayk to identify artists who would like to participate in the Hearts Of Fire Project’s new artist sponsor program. We will be matching artists with people who wish to personally support and encourage the artists. We are working on a web site that will profile each artist and allow people to link with them, meet them and get to know each other. This is exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This past week, I had the privilege of visiting with two powerful art programs on Skid Row in Los Angeles that are empowering the people from the neighborhood. The SRO Art Workshop and the Lamp Community Art Project have been working with homeless and low income folks for years, persisting and flourishing despite a lack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[8,27,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}