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Marina Del Rey School Utility Box Workshop

Melissa partnered with after school care program Prime Time's art director to lead a workshop to paint a utility box in Del Rey community. Students learned how to properly paint outdoors being creative, safe, and have fun.

Marina Del Rey School Utility Box Community artist, Melissa " Yher ", lead a workshop with afterschool care program Prime Time.	Students at work All the students who signed up happened to be girls, although the workshop was open to everyone. We ended up leading an all girl student team to paint the utility box.	Work in Progress Students learned to properly setup, lay the base of the design, apply different techniques for different panels, and all while having fun.
Fun Creative Learning

Utility Box Project with Del Rey Community

Melissa is a local to Del Rey Community and partnered with the Del Rey neighborhood council to paint a box herself and distribute a couple other boxes to contributing artists with professional background in the arts and murals. Melissa invited artists who have shared and volunteered their time and materials to these boxes and to workshops within the neighborhood.

Yher Arte Artist Melissa Lopez, Yher Arte utility box that she painted for her community of Del Rey	Yher Arte Utility Box Artist Melissa Lopez, Yher Arte, painted a Japanese Buddhist Temple inspired utility box for her community of Del Rey.	Miranda Villanueva Utility Box Artist "Nana" Utility Box for the community of Del Rey - @blissful_nana
Miranda working on her box Artist "Nana" painting her box for the community of Del Rey.	Artist Miranda Villanueva @blissful_nana	Artist Mrbbaby Diego Rivera inspired utility box by artist Michelle - @Mrbbaby
Artist Mrbbaby Frida Kahlo utility box by artist Michelle - @Mrbbaby

Face painting for Communities in Los Angeles

Melissa "Yher" spends a lot of her time face painting for communities in Los Angeles for different events and festivals. One of her favorite and most known events is the annual Olvera Muertos Art walk loacted in Olvera Street.

COMMUNITY

Marina Del Rey School Utility Box Workshop

Marina Del Rey School Utility Box

Community artist, Melissa " Yher ", lead a workshop with afterschool care program Prime Time.

Students at work

All the students who signed up happened to be girls, although the workshop was open to everyone. We ended up leading an all girl student team to paint the utility box.

Work in Progress

Students learned to properly setup, lay the base of the design, apply different techniques for different panels, and all while having fun.

Fun Creative Learning

Utility Box Project with Del Rey Community

Yher Arte

Artist Melissa Lopez, Yher Arte utility box that she painted for her community of Del Rey

Yher Arte Utility Box

Artist Melissa Lopez, Yher Arte, painted a Japanese Buddhist Temple inspired utility box for her community of Del Rey.

Miranda Villanueva Utility Box

Artist "Nana" Utility Box for the community of Del Rey - @blissful_nana

Miranda working on her box

Artist "Nana" painting her box for the community of Del Rey.

Artist Miranda Villanueva

@blissful_nana

Artist Mrbbaby

Diego Rivera inspired utility box by artist Michelle - @Mrbbaby

Artist Mrbbaby

Frida Kahlo utility box by artist Michelle - @Mrbbaby

Face painting for Communities in Los Angeles