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The "Living Walls Mural Project", founded in Sept. 2004 and directed by Mabel Negrete (Hypersea artist), was a series of community-based mural projects that function as social sculptures. Through a range of processes that encourage discussion and collective authorship, Negrete invites artists and grass roots community organizations to collaborate with her as well as with her fellow Hypersea members, and together designed temporary murals as participatory events that aimed to exercise the First Amendment. Hypersea is a coalition of multidisciplinary artists from the Bay Area, dedicated to integrating art education and artistic production into urban environments.
In these series of mural-making events, the project intended to test understandings toward public engagement and to expand the knowledge of Bay Area social struggles, as well as, they functioned as “sessions of cultural resistance” to preserve community identities within the developments of local and worldwide geopolitics.