Teen Mural Unveiling-Angels Gate Cultural Center

Teen Mural Unveiling: Native Blooms!

Come celebrate the unveiling of our Teen Mural Club’s new mural, Native Blooms! Meet us on the Lawn between Building A and B!

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC), in partnership with Mer Young and local youth, is pleased to announce the public unveiling of a new mural, Native Blooms on Saturday, May 3rd, from 12-1 pm at Angels Gate Cultural Center. The completion of this large-scale artwork marks the conclusion of the Spring 2025 AGCC Teen Mural Club (TMC), a ten-week professional development workshop for San Pedro students ages 13-20 years old.

Native Blooms is the culmination of the Center’s third Teen Mural Club cohort, which included ten weeks of professional training, planning, and painting by San Pedro based students under the mentorship of Indigenous multidisciplinary artist, Mer Young (Chichimeca & Apache). The participants represented students from San Pedro High School’s Olguin and Flagship Campuses, Port of Los Angeles High School, Harbor College, and homeschooling.

The final piece is an impactful vision of California Native plants thriving at Angels Gate Cultural Center, in San Pedro, and across our greater ecosystem. Under the mentorship of Mer Young, TMC students carefully observed and researched the native plants in their environment and selected one to adapt into the mural. The result, Native Blooms, is a colorful collage focusing on native species our young artists selected to bloom on our campus in perpetuity.