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Primary Artist: Ten 88
Location: Mineshaft
COVID Cover Up
When businesses shut down and boarded up in despair, we painted messages of hope and encouragement for our community’s mental health. This project, birthed in pandemic darkness, called us to arm ourselves with masks and brushes soaked in bright pigments of inspiration to spread light. The arts were critical in paving the road towards recovery and once again artists demonstrated how essential they are to our city.
The Arts Council for Long Beach commissioned artists to paint over boarded-up businesses along Broadway and Fourth Street’s Retro Row as part of its “Keep Arts Working” initiative. The project, COVID Cover-up” featured artists from Long Beach and Los Angeles county who were asked to paint inspiring images that lift up the community.
Photography by: Jose Cordon of Deadend Brigade
Public Art
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Primary Artist: Ms. Yellow
Location: The Brit
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Primary Artist: Duncan Ewington
Location: Broadway Cocktail Lounge
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Primary Artist: Spank Grip
Location: The Falcon
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Primary Artist: Getta Grip
Location: BLACK
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Primary Artist: Corie Mattie
Location: Sweetwater Saloon
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Primary Artist: Ms. Yellow
Location: Thrift & Gift
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Primary Artist: Sparc & Benedetta Chan
Location: The Social List
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Primary Artist: Alepsis Hernandez
Location: Xscape
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Primary Artist: Shark Polansky
Location: Ross
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Primary Artist: Karina Vazquez
Location: PBS Pub & Co.
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Primary Artist: Bash
Location: Goodwill