A powerful new piece of public art is transforming South Los Angeles — not just as a landmark but as a living space for community, culture and remembrance. <\/p>\n
The massive sculpted figures along with towering pillars and echoing Egyptian monuments were created by Lauren Halsey, an artist born in South LA’s Gramercy Park.<\/p>\n
Halsey said the monuments are dedicated to the people in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Her creation is on display in an outdoor sculpture park called Sister Dreamer, which honors Halsey’s local heroes, neighbors and family. One artwork even features the face of her mother. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo many of our genius gets overlooked, in my opinion, gets devalued, don\u2019t get their flowers,” Halsey said. <\/p>\n
Alongside blooming flowers and native plants and water fountains, Halsey literally has put the people on pedestals. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s Robin, one of the founders of the Sisters of Watts,” Halsey while discussing the creation dedicated to the grassroots community nonprofit.<\/p>\n
Kara Gomez, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than seven decades, said the sculptures not only capture what she remembers but gives her hope for the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s beautiful. It\u2019s really amazing. It\u2019s history,” Gomez said. \u201cThis, I think, it a lot of people come and see it will give them pride on what we have accomplished and what we can accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n
The park will also host live events for the neighborhood with a focus on youth. In fact, the community will be trying to break the world record for the longest soul train dance line on Juneteenth this year.<\/p>\n
Everyone is invited, Halsey said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A powerful new piece of public art is transforming South Los Angeles — not just as a landmark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,2088],"class_list":{"0":"post-282905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-south-los-angeles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}