PEOPLE + PURPOSE PROGRAMS > CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS > ACTIVATION PROCESS + UNDERSTANDING CLIENTS + PARTNERS PRESS + MEDIA CONTACT > US HOME > PAGE PROGRAMS/CONSTRUCTION Recovering Equilibrium | Social Studies | Constellation of Cultures In the Eye of the Storm | Voice of the Homeless | Sense of Government | Family Voices/Austin | Strands of History | Chinatown Passages | Scripture Wall | Urban Talismans | Wall of Fame | Westlake Cultural Front WESTLAKE CULTURAL FRONT Institution: Belmont High School---Los Angeles, California Funded by: The Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Located at an inner city high school within a predominately Latino, immigrant community, this public art program is comprised of figurative silhouettes and pedestals that could become public soapboxes. Inscribed on alternate sides en Espa–ol---English, the aspirations and fears of students facing toward the school---the educational imperatives of their teachers facing outward toward the community, they were likely to become lightening rods for the indigenous language of graffiti. Like chess pieces, they were periodically re-deployed on campus, to mark shifting lines of demarcation in the ongoing cultural wars. Constructed of aluminum profiles and underlying structure to support concrete counterweights, with text cast into the surfaces.