East Palo Alto youth development center creates job opportunities for local artists [Video]

With the support of the California Arts Council and the San Francisco Foundation, young people in East Palo Alto are using their artistic skills to serve the community and prepare themselves for careers in art and design.

“El Concilio serves the community and a lot of them have immigrated here from parts of South America, so we wanted this landscape to kind of mimic that,” said Artist Olivia Herlihy. 

Starting at the front and continuing down the side of the building, interns from the East Palo Alto Creative Youth Development center, better known as EPACENTER, spent over three months creating a mural at El Concilio of San Mateo County. Herlihy was one of the people chosen to work on the project.

“Public art is something I’m really passionate about. I love the community aspect. Like partnering and learning about the community with nonprofits in the community. So, after EPACENTER, I’d love to continue doing murals around …