"San Jose Walls celebrates the role of artists in transforming San Jose's landscape through public art installations, uniting the community around creativity and collaboration."
"The mural showed people making soap which was a huge industry in Toronto - it employed generations of Torontonians," said Leslie Barnes, a member of the Toronto and East York Community Preservation Panel (TEYCPP), which has been trying to find organizations willing to display the mural.
The Seaglass Carousel has been a dream of ours since it was first talked about back in 2005 as a sense of light. I was sitting in this area talking about how to draw people into the park. And they said, 'We need a light source.' And one of the landscape artists says, 'Warrie, what about a carousel?'
Critics of a proposed Chicano-themed mural in San Jose's northside sparked heated debates at a community meeting, underscoring cultural tensions and artistic representation.