Our Pride, 2022

LaToya Peoples

10 x 25 foot hand-painted mural

City Hall, 8300 Santa Monica Boulevard

May 22, 2022 - April 30, 2023

Our Pride features four hands to symbolize aspects of LGBTQ Pride. A fist, symbolizing the fight against oppression throughout history as LGBTQ and also as BIPOC queer people. A painter’s hand, symbolizing our creativity and openness as a community. A hand holding a sunflower, a symbol for self-love and seeking light. And, a hand in a classic peace sign.  The background color is a bright sky, symbolic of the progress we have made and have yet to make. Each hand will be painted realistically representing diverse people. 

LaToya D. Peoples is a BIPOC, queer, multidisciplinary artist, educator, and entrepreneur working in the realms of visual art, public/community arts and design. Her work focuses on figuration, natural elements, color, and pattern, as a way of exploring identity, and history. She carries these themes over to her mural and sculptural installation work, creating transformative pieces guided by youth and community engagement. Her commissioned works live in the collections of University Maryland Medical Center, Denver Urban Arts & Venues, Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts, and Baltimore Department of Parks and Recreation. 

Peoples has also worked as an educator and coordinator for visual arts programming in Pennsylvania and Maryland. She has served youth and adults through teaching partnerships with the Baltimore City Public School System, National Museum of Ceramic Art, Arts Everyday, Jubilee Arts Center, Enoch Pratt Free Library and the McDonogh School.

Installed as part of the WeHo Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival https//pride.weho.org  

For questions or to report a damaged or vandalized artwork, contact Rebecca Ehemann, (323) 848-6846 or rehemann@weho.org. For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, please call, TTY: (323) 848-6496. To learn more information about the City of West Hollywood and its arts programs visit www.weho.org/arts.