Public Art Archive

From Chicano murals to the Wide Open Walls festival, Sacramento, California has a vibrant public art scene. Students in the ART 118C: Public Art course at California State University-Sacramento interviewed the artists behind some of the murals and sculptures across the city. Their work makes up the “Sacramento Public Art Archive,” a growing repository of video interviews that records, preserves, and protects the history and artistic visions behind beloved works of public art across the city.

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Public art banner — Banner artworks by (L to R): Lauren YS, Lin Fei Fei, Shonna McDaniels, Brandon Alexander, David Puck, Miles Toland, and Shonna McDaniels

Artist Interviews

Note: automatic captions within video may contain inaccuracies.

Aik Brown Interview

Fei Fei Lin Interview

Complete list of interviewees

Narrator	Link
Alexander, Brandon	View
Brown, Aik	View
Fei Fei, Lin	View
Garcia, Christian	View
Garcia-Nakata, Lorraine	View
Kaltenbach, Stephen	View
King, Jaya	View
McDaniels, Shonna	View
Ponci, Jenn	View

Narrator	Link
Puck, David	View
Reinertson, Lisa	View
Silva, Eliseo	View
Taylor, Stephanie	View
Templeton, Madelyne Joan	View
Toland, Miles	View
Valenzuela, Bryan	View
Vicente, Mabel	View
YS, Lauren	View

Inquiry

For questions about the Project or access to recordings, send email to: dosch@csus.edu.