Women Against Gun Violence is excited to announce that its continuing relationship with Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles has resulted in the beautiful and inspiring artwork for its LIGHT LA campaign to be held on December 11, 2014 at 7 pm.
The artwork, designed by Wendy Trinidad, a student in the Communication Arts Department at Otis College, can be seen as the masthead on our website and on our Facebook page and on Twitter. It is being used throughout Los Angeles County as well as in other areas of California, Ohio, and North Carolina.
Wendy’s professor, Kim DeMarco, is an artist and designer with work appearing in and on the covers of The New Yorker Magazine and The New York Times. “My Communication Arts students and I are delighted and inspired to be working with WAGV on the LIGHT LA event. It’s been very meaningful for the students to lend a visual voice and hopefully increase awareness of gun violence.”
This is not the first time that Kim and her students have joined forces with Women Against Gun Violence. This past May, students created several message-related posters for the gun violence prevention organization to auction off at their annual awards brunch.
Otis is L.A.’s first independent professional school of art and design. Since 1918, Otis has trained artists and designers who are in the vanguard of Southern California’s cultural and entrepreneurial life. From Mattel to Pixar to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Otis graduates have made an individual, positive, and lasting mark on the world.