Hello.

I'm Bonnie Boswell.

Now, during the pandemic, many frontline workers faced immeasurable hardships.

But showcasing beauty and strength is the goal behind Creative Resilience in downtown Los Angeles.

Today, you'll meet two artists from Creative Resilience.

First is Quetzal Flores, guitarist and founder of the rock group Quetzal.

I grew up in social movement and I inherited a relentless sort of passion and and will to fight, to fight and to also celebrate.

And so this is exactly that sort of intersection of that Creative Resilience.

Where we as people of color have so much by way of cultural resource that can be leveraged to both seek justice, demand justice.

An artist, Danie Carsino, used e materials like notebook paper to make her art accessible.

The art that's here is it's a ballpoint pen drawing.

It's called La Escalada.

And so the ballpoint drawing depicts somebody's hands crossed in front of another person as if they're going to give them a boost.

It's universal gesture in implying that they need help and need help to be lifted.

Someone's wearing Cortezes, Nike Cortezes.

So it fits really easily into chain link fences.

It's indexable to my upbringing in East L.A. Everybody had Cortezes.

I mean, all the cool kids out Cortezes.

I don't think my my mom or dad ever went to an art gallery before they saw my work in one.

So it was really important for me to see a space that the whole community could come out to.

Representing Los Angeles and representing Latinx culture and resilience.

For KCET, I'm Bonnie Boswell.