A local artist works with youth to create their first mural. The project is not only changing the community, it is changing the lives of the youth.

Perhaps it was the abundance of concrete, or the year-round painting season, or the city full of Mexican workers that made Los Angeles the place where murals began to be a predominant art form.

Students in Crnjaks’ painting class, in collaboration with Lit Youngstown, finished the first phase of the mural in November ... of Dramatic and Visual Arts collaborated with Lit Youngstown ...