{"id":988,"date":"2022-03-30T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/?p=988"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:06:10","slug":"inside-the-art-studio-with-muralist-fabian-debora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/2022\/03\/30\/inside-the-art-studio-with-muralist-fabian-debora\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Art Studio with Muralist Fabian Debora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Debora is a prominent Chicano muralist, with Catholic faith and spirituality playing an important role in his work. Photo courtesy of Fabian Debora<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Inside the Art Studio with Muralist Fabian Debora<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n
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\n\n \n The artist and educator will speak at the IACS event \u201cGuadalupe: Holy Art in the Streets of Los Angeles.\u201d\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n By<\/span>By IACS Staff<\/strong>\n \n March 30, 2022<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Large painted canvases hang from walls. Students huddle around computers, elegant digital graphics leaping from the screens. Artists work at wooden easels, intensely focused on their craft.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all happening inside the Boyle Heights art studio of muralist Fabian Debora, who recently welcomed IACS President Fr. Dorian for a visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cArt should be universal,\u201d Debora said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we create here \u2013 art for the people, by the people and of the people of our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Debora will be speaking at \u201cGuadalupe: Holy Art in the Streets of Los Angeles<\/a><\/span>\u201d on April 10, 2022 at the USC Fisher Museum of Art. The IACS event will also feature a discussion with journalist\u00a0Sam Quinones<\/a><\/span>. Conversations will be moderated by Fr. Dorian and eminent Latina theologian\u00a0\u00a0Prof. Nancy Pineda-Madrid<\/a><\/span>, T. Marie Chilton Chair of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exciting event breaks new ground by exploring the fascinating way spirituality and street art come together in our communities,\u201d Fr. Dorian said. \u201cWe\u2019re honored to welcome two high-profile speakers to USC to discuss the influence of Catholic faith, spirituality and the presence of the Virgin Mary in urban art across Los Angeles and Southern California.\u201d<\/p>\n

A bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times journalist, Quinones has spent the past decade reporting on the opioid and meth crisis in the U.S. As a side project, Quinones traveled across L.A. documenting graffiti and street murals depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe. His book \u201cThe Virgin of the American Dream: Guadalupe on the Walls of Los Angeles\u201d is a photo essay spotlighting that work.<\/p>\n

Quinones is also the author of \u201cThe Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth,\u201d published in November by Bloomsbury Publishing. The book has earned widespread accolades, including being named an Amazon editor\u2019s pick for best nonfiction and a finalist for the 2021 Nonfiction Award from the National Book Critics Circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Art should be universal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n