Hello, I'm Bonnie Boswell.

Well, what is the relationship between art and work?

It's a question that was answered here in downtown Los Angeles.

At an exhibit called Creative Resilience.

Wyatt Closs is the executive producer of Creative Resilience.

Creative Resilience is a large scale pop up art, show music, discussion and community action space.

For many people who come to visit and see the show, it is a sense of seeing themselves represented for the first time in spaces that might otherwise be reserved for wealthy collectors.

Work by Narciso Martinez, who has done an incredible thing in taking Starbucks coffee cups flattened them, turned them into a canvas, and then illustrated over them images of coffee farm workers.

An important part of our marketing was to intentionally market to folks who are often portrayed in the art that we were showing.

This is a series called Dear Frontline.

And the idea was to take works of art that would honor essential workers.

What we are seeing here are 50 different occupations in L.A. County.

If we had nothing but this wall, it would tell a lot about what we're trying to convey.

People who come into the space and want to take a picture by the image of that farm worker because they know somebody who, you know, is still doing that work and want to share with them.

When you see things like that, you know you're onto something.

For KCET, I'm Bonnie Boswell.