Janice M. Chau

In the next week, I'm working with the Compton Initiative. A lot of planning, drawing, coloring, tracing and painting will be going on in prep for the workday on July 30th, 2011.  If your interested in volunteering: check out what they are about:   The Initiative  and sign up. I've been working with the Initiative for about a year and a half now. This will be my first time leading the mural department with a friend of mind Adelle Nieves. It's anticipatory to know you'll have like a hundred volunteers under your umbrella. This is what all of the buildings look like. It's pretty grey and white everywhere! Not the best learning environment for kids The concept for Anderson Elementary School is about Going Places...and Getting Somewhere. We are designing murals to encourage and inspire education, imagination, and innovation. We want the kids to think, feel, acknowledge, and live their dreams, not just daydream about it. It's one thing to...

Unrestrained, graphite on velum, 5.5" by 8"' July 11, 2011 Just so happens today I was feeling kind of tied down, controlled by several situations in life, I've been having these visions of flying paper cranes, so I thought I'd sketch it out.   I was listening to this song Unrestrained , and this is what I was feeling and always hope for: to fly freely. Story behind the piece Listen-Unrestrained, We Cry Out Jeremy Camp