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Community Pushback Intensifies Against Plan to Remove Murals at Santa Barbara's Ortega Park | Local News


Community Pushback Intensifies Against Plan to Remove Murals at Santa Barbara’s Ortega Park
Activists, artists and others hold a forum and call on city leaders to reconsider the plan, saying the artwork is central to the area s culture and history
Santa Barbara City Councilwoman Alejandra Gutierrez is among a group of residents who want the city to preserve the murals at Ortega Park. “It’s one of the parks that really represents the Mexican-American culture,” she says. “It’s history.” (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo)
By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
February 6, 2021
| 10:03 p.m.
The effort to save the murals at Santa Barbara s Ortega Park intensified on Saturday when a group of activists, educators and artists spoke at a virtual forum and called on the city to listen to the community instead of barging ahead with its controversial plan. ....

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Community Members Speak Up to Save Murals at Santa Barbara's Ortega Park | Local News


Community Members Speak Up to Save Murals at Santa Barbara’s Ortega Park
After hearing from artists, activists and others, the city s Historic Landmarks Commission votes to indefinitely continue the proposal
A mural titled “Campesinos” is one of several murals at Ortega Park in Santa Barbara that are at the center of a debate over how and whether to preserve them during a planned renovation of the park. (Courtesy photo)
By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
February 3, 2021
| 10:13 p.m.
The city s Parks & Recreation Department has resisted requests to preserve the murals. Instead, it commissioned a report that suggested that seven of the murals could be re-created at the park. ....

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Ortega Park mural evaluation goes before Historic Landmarks Commission Wednesday


Historic Landmarks Commission requests more community input on Ortega Park murals
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Wednesday s two hour long Zoom session debating the cultural and historical merit of more than a dozen murals in Ortega Park ended without a final decision and a push for more community input.
Staff with the Parks and Recreation Department presented their Mural Evaluation Report to the City s Historic Landmarks Commission (HLC), which broke down costs to relocate, demolish and reproduce the artwork.
The report was prepared by Site and Studio Conservation, LLC (S&S) based in Ventura. 
The commission received letters against the destruction of the murals and public comments echoing to the commission not to accept the City s recommendations. A major theme was more community input, said Mark Alvarado, in an email. ....

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