Reading The City: Compton Off the Wall

 A conversation with Kency Cornejo, Mel Depaz, Anthony Lee Pittman, and Isabel Rojas-Williams

Reading the City: Compton Off the Wall engaged a discussion about public art, policies and possibilities for Compton and South L.A. artists. Compton mural artists Mel Depaz and Anthony Pittman join Isabel Rojas-Williams, Art Historian curator and Former Executive Director of the LA Mural Conservancy and Dr. Kency Cornejo, Professor of Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of New Mexico engage in a broader discussion on the future of Compton and South Los Angeles artists and communities. 

The conversation was originally livecasted on July 8, 2021.