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A fully multi-media report on "All the Saints," created by reporter Skye Rohde and web designer Heather Murphy: Audio report, Slide show, Two recordings of JMW reading works, links, and an interactive map of LA
Skye Rohde,
All Things Considered, 29 Aug 2008
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"...a Sam Spade of saints, tracking down the histories of the city’s saintly drives... and, more than occasionally, unearthing contemporary symbolism."
Patricia Leigh Brown,
New York Times, 9 March 2008
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"...a meditation on L.A.'s past, the ghosts that pass over this land... where the present and past meet seamlessly."
Lynell George,
LA Times, 24 Feb 2008
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Three minute video piece by Rebecca Ma, on "All the Saints of the City of the Angels"
Rebecca Ma,
Vimeo Online, Nov 2008
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"Walker’s work is a unique fusion of rural Mexican and American art, and All the Saints of the City of the Angels comprises huge, vibrant paintings originally commissioned as prints to decorate L.A. bus shelters."
Ericka Zora Wrightson,
LA Weekly 100 People Issue, 13 May 2008
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"There's no shortage of interesting people in Los Angeles, but I knew the moment I first heard about J. Michael Walker's exhibit at the Autry National Center that I wanted to do a story about him.... I've never seen anyone approach a city the way J. Michael Walker does."
Skye Rohde, NPR PRoducer,
NPR Day to Day Blog, 29 Aug 2008
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"I've been waiting for this project to come to fruition, and now that it has you should check it out."
Kevin Roderick,
LA Observed (online), 11 March 2008
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"The project sprang initially from his years in rural Mexico, where small saints' images, or retablos, adorned walls in nearly every room... [and] kept watch over the rituals of people's lives."
Deborah Schoch,
Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct 2007
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"La gente de nuestro alrededor tiene una fachada sagrada y nunca sabremos cuánto estarán sufriendo. Para algunas personas poder llegar a su casa sin que nada les pase es una hazaña."
Sofia Puerta,
Vida Nueva, 10 March 2008
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For the past eight years, artist J. Michael Walker has researched and traveled to each and every one of them. What he found were parallel stories and lives of the saints and the people now living on streets named after them.
The California Report from NPR (online), 21 Mar 2008
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"Walker had a brilliant idea: he found all the L.A. streets named for saints, retrieved their stories and illustrated them in works that draw from Goya and folk art and 1920s real estate ads."
Peter Fish,
Sunset Magazine (online), 25 Feb 2008
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"Needless to say, the show is great and once again gives great insight the the city of Los Angeles."
Two entries posted: 1 Apr 09 and 17 Mar 2008
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Reporter Ben McCain and Cameraman Gino Salerno profile artist, J. Michael Walker, about his exhibition "All the Saints of the City of Angels."
SoCal Shooter,
Posted on Youtube, 22 July 2008
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"a glorious and seamless tapestry that weaves California history, the stories of the saints, and the triumph of the human spirit... J. Michael Walker portrays the dignity of all our city’s inhabitants- mothers, children, homeless, fathers- and helps us to see the face of God."
Leticia Marie Sanchez,
CulturalCocktail Hour (online), 24 June 2008
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