{"id":13244,"date":"2020-08-13T12:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/desi-mundo-2\/"},"modified":"2020-08-13T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T13:22:53","slug":"desi-mundo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/desi-mundo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Desi Mundo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10194 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Vertical-Profile-200x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Vertical-Profile-200x300-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Vertical-Profile-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Vertical-Profile.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Desi Mundo was <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/desi-mundo\/\">interviewed last year<\/a>, and is an Oakland-based spray paint educator, hip-hop cultural diplomat and the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/crpbayarea.org\/\">Community Rejuvenation Project<\/a>, a pavement to policy mural organization that has produced more than 250 murals, throughout the Bay Area as well as nationally and internationally. His mural with Pancho Peskador, 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 acclaimed documentary film &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alicestreetfilm.com\/\">Alice Street<\/a>.&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. Desi recently completed &ldquo;AscenDance,&rdquo; a 91 ft. tall acrylic mural on Oakland&rsquo;s Greenlining Institute, with an all-woman all-star team of brush painters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10568\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-1024x684-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-1024x684-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-1068x713.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EKA_7433-629x420.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10569\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7777-1-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7777-1-768x1024-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7777-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7777-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7777-1-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7777-1-1068x1424.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7777-1-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7777-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desi Mundo was interviewed last year, and 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 mural with Pancho Peskador, the &ldquo;Universal Language&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13267,"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-13244","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\/13244","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=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13268,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}