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Exhibition Detail

Group Show

HUMBLE BEAUTY: Skid Row Artists, documentary film

Echo Park Film Center

1200 N. Alvarado Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026

May 7th 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Enrique Marquez, Fiesta Fireworks,
unknown, acrylic on canvas
© 2008 by Humble Productions

> ARTISTS

Lillian Abel	Enrique Marquez
Astrid Dahlen	Vachelle McFarland
Darlene Altemeier Dobbs	Vytautas Pliura
Lucille Forester	Joacquin Roebuck
OG Man (Manuel Compito)	Rory White

> QUICK FACTS

EVENT TYPE:

Screening

NEIGHBORHOOD:

silverlake/echo park

EMAIL:

echoparkfilmcenter@hotmail.com

PHONE:

213-484-8846

OPEN HOURS:

call for event times

TAGS:

homeless, mental, illness, rehabilitation, urban, mixed-media, conceptual, realism, drawing, painting, abstract, modern, traditional

COST:

> DESCRIPTION

HUMBLE BEAUTY: Skid Row Artists, a one-hour documentary about talented homeless artists living and creating art in the poorest section of Los Angeles, will be screened at the Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado Blvd., (at Sunset Blvd.), Los Angeles, on Thursday, May 7th at 8 pm.

The film is also about the ubiquity of art. People will strive to make art no matter how difficult or humble the circumstances and art often changes their lives dramatically.

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