Art Along the Valley: The Home Savings Bank Art Project

This Sunday, October 23 at 11:00 a.m. at the Autry National Center will be showing the murals and mosaics that Millard Sheets created for Home Savings banks in the 1950s through the 1970s present snapshots of California’s multiethnic history. Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, who has written extensively about Sheets’s work, will lead a bus tour to six locations in the San Fernando Valley with murals that feature portrayals of Mexican Americans. The tour will include a box lunch. For tickets, visit the Autry website. Information about Arenson’s project to preserve Sheets’s work is available on the author’s blog.