Monday Mural

  I'm linking up at Monday Mural 

WE ARE TRAVLLING UNTIL DEC 22, I WILL LINK UP IF POSSIBLE. BUT I EXPECT LIMITED INTERNET/WI-FI.

February 2025 - Cathedral City CA

The Agnes Pelton Murals Path is a grassroots Public Art installation of murals and mosaics by artists commissioned by the Agnes Pelton Society. Mosaics and painted murals are visible to the public on Chuparosa (hummingbird) Lane and F Street in the Cathedral City Cove. The murals are on walls of private homes.

Agnes Lawrence Pelton (August 22, 1881 – March 13, 1961) was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least three distinct themes: her early "Imaginative Paintings," art of the American Southwest people and landscape, and abstract art that reflected her spiritual beliefs. She was a first cousin of American sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser.

 “Agnes and Friends,” is a mural depicting Agnes Pelton and other artists who lived in the Cathedral City Cove from the 1930s to ’60s. 

I knew nothing about Agnes Pelton when I found these murals. Since then I have read about her and found this great video.

Agnes has the blue scarf around her neck.

Lalo and Five Mariachis is a painted portrait mural by Luiz Castro.  It is a tribute to former Cathedral Cove resident Lalo Guerrero who is widely known as the Father of Chicano Music.

We had seen a sculpture of Lalo last week in Cathedral City.

It took some manipulating for John to get these photos as the mural was behind a wall.

Simeon Den wrote this on Facebook about this mural.

Most of us in our four-to-five blocks of neighborhood know each other, at least by face, and many of us by names.  We are a multi-cultural, cross generational, interdenominational, mixed ‘hood of whites, blacks, Mexicans, (at least) one Asian (me), who wave at each other as we drive by or walk our dogs. We have at least five STVRs (short term vacation rentals) in our ‘hood and if ever there was something worth complaining about, before calling the cops to complain  we would no doubt politely walk over to the offending house to talk to our neighbors and problem solved! 
On another note, last year we commissioned a neighborhood Latina artist to paint images of our neighborhood elders. (There are many residents who raised their families in the houses they grew up in and  now are visited by  their grandchildren in those homes.) Our elders mural “@Las Mayores de Cathedral City Cove.”

 8-Bit Frida, painted ceramic tile mosaic by Marnie Navarro is a tribute to the Surrealist painter and political activist Frida Kahlo.

Our Lady of Chuparrosa, a  mosaic composed of broken pottery by Peter Palladino. Lady of Chuparrosa is fictitious saint referencing the popular  Lady of Guadalupe. Nevertheless, locals often leave lit candles and flowers at her feet. 

I couldn't find anything on this one.