Balmy Alley

The first paintings date from 1972, when Mia Galivez worked in the alley with children from a local childcare centre. In 1973 Patricia Rodriguez and Graciela Carrillo painted a jungle-and-underwater scene there, the beginning of Las Mujeres Muralistas. Ray Patlan led the PLACA project, which produced twenty-seven murals in the summer of 1985 with a 2,500 dollar grant from the Zellerbach Foundation. The alley was restored in 2014. Artists with work here include Juana Alicia, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Marta Ayala, Miranda Bergman, Xochitl Nevel-Guerrero, Sirron Norris and Irene Perez.