{"id":11707,"date":"2020-03-25T19:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/desi-mundo\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T21:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:14:57","slug":"desi-mundo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/desi-mundo\/","title":{"rendered":"Desi Mundo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10194 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vertical-Profile-200x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vertical-Profile-200x300-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vertical-Profile-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Vertical-Profile.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crpbayarea.org\/\">Desi Mundo<\/a> is an Oakland-based spray paint educator, hip-hop cultural diplomat and the founder of the Community Rejuvenation Project, a pavement to policy mural organization that has produced more than 250 murals, throughout the Bay Area as well as nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>His largest mural, the &ldquo;Universal Language&rdquo; galvanized the Oakland community in the struggle against gentrification resulting in $20 million in community benefits, as documented in the feature documentary film &ldquo;Alice Street.&rdquo; Desi&rsquo;s legacy as an educator and youth worker in K-12 schools spans two decades. He received the &ldquo;Rising Leaders&rdquo; Fellowship from the Youth Leadership Institute in 2005 and has been awarded the Individual Artist grant from the City of Oakland eight times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10195\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-1024x681-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-1068x711.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/murals-slider-gallery-alice-st-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10196\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-683x1024-1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-696x1044.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-1068x1602.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/community-research-gallery-destiny-copy-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desi Mundo is an Oakland-based spray paint educator, hip-hop cultural diplomat and the founder of the Community Rejuvenation Project, a pavement to policy mural organization that has produced more than 250 murals, throughout the Bay Area as well as nationally and internationally. His largest mural, the &ldquo;Universal Language&rdquo; galvanized the Oakland community in the struggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}