In 2022, Community Engagement launched an art exchange program that provides funding to bring artists from around the world to Santa Ana, CA. The two-week residency provides a unique opportunity for the visiting artists to create murals and engage with the local art community.
Special thanks to Ruben Salazar of the Blue Lot, Pastor Mario Reyes of The Sound Church, and Aries Ramirez of The Spectrum Apartments for working with Community Engagement to provide walls for our muralists.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SANTA ANA EXCHANGE ARTISTS
Andrés Byeck
Mexico
2023
Andrés Byeck grew up in the state of Oaxaca where his passions were drawing and playing with clay. Surrounded by artisans and farmers, he began to forge ideology and concept of life. In 2010, he entered the School of Fine Arts in the city of Oaxaca, and simultaneously carried out several illustration and editing workshops at the Centro De Artes San Agustín. He now lives in the city of Chihuahua and makes illustrations, murals, paintings, and interventions in objects and public roads.
Adriana Delfin
Mexico
2023
Adriana Delfin participated in her first collective exhibition in Mexico City at the age of 10. She studied at the Faculty of Arts and Design, UNAM and focused on painting, graphics, murals, object art, installation, and intervention in urban space. She worked in production design for cinema and theater, and participated in the production of films, series, and plays. She gained a perception of space that was later reflected in her pictorial work, involving the viewer in a sensory dialogue with her pieces.
Jim Vision
United Kingdom
2022
Jim Vision is an artist and painter of large-scale murals and graffiti. A leading protagonist of London's contemporary street art culture, his talent has taken him across the globe, from Buenos Aires to Tahiti, Miami to Mexico. In addition, Jim and his partner Matilda have created EndoftheLine, a community driven organization dedicated to an on-going public art mission in London to bring color to the streets and promote street and graffiti art on an engaging public platform.