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Two
CCHE projects now open to public: Discovery Science
Center, Delta III Rocket and Stanton McDonald Wright
historic mural at Santa Monica Public Library
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The
California
Cultural and Historical Endowment (CCHE), the
cultural grant program hosted by the California
State Library, helped fund two projects during its
2004 round one cycle that are now open and
available for Californians to experience: the
Delta lll rocket in Santa
Ana’s Discovery Science Center, and the
mural at the Santa
Monica Public Library. Both of these
astounding exhibits illustrate the diverse capital
projects the CCHE supports.
Delta
III rocket
The
CCHE board awarded $262,000 toward the restoration
of the Delta III rocket that has been permanently
installed at the Discovery Science Center in Santa
Ana. The 85-foot Delta III, within sight of Orange
County’s busy I-5 corridor, is a visual reminder
of what Southern California companies and
individuals have contributed toward the conquest
of space.
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Delta
III Rocket
[Photo courtesy Discovery Science Center]
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During
its active service for NASA, the Delta III
launched more than 300 spacecraft and satellites,
including the Mars Rovers, Deep Impact and many of
the satellites now in orbit. The more than 300,000
people who visit the Science Center each year will
gain hands-on knowledge about the rocket’s
history and effect on California culture through
educational and interpretive activities connected
to the exhibit.
For
more information about the Delta III exhibit at
the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana please
visit the Discovery Science Center website
or call 714-542-CUBE.
Santa
Monica Public Library mural
The
CCHE board awarded $113,241 to the Santa
Monica Public Library to restore and reinstall
one of the largest and most vibrant murals
completed during the New Deal period, Stanton
McDonald Wright’s "Technical and
Imaginative Pursuits of Early Man.”
Stanton
McDonald Wright's "Technical and Imaginative
Pursuits of Early Man" at
Santa Monica Public Library.
[Photo
courtesy Diane Matsuda]
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Panel
detail from restored New Deal mural at
Santa Monica Public Library.
[Photo
courtesy Diane Matsuda]
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The
mural panels, originally designed for the former
public library, now on display on the new
Santa Monica Public Library’s second floor, are
an extraordinary example of Modernist public art.
Since the old Santa Monica Library was demolished
in the 1960’s, the mural’s 2,000 square feet
and more than 160 figures have been stored at the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and in
Los Angeles. Now, thanks to the 2004 CCHE grant,
and the City of Santa Monica, people who visit the
new Santa Monica Public Library can enjoy this
lush Deco depiction of primitive man through
1930’s Hollywood while they enjoy their library.
For
more information on the Santa Monica Public
Library murals please call (310) 458-8600; or
visit the library’s web site www.smpl.org.
About
the California Cultural and Historical Endowment
In
2002, the California Cultural and Historical
Endowment (CCHE) was created to support the
“acquisition, development, preservation, and
interpretation of buildings, structures, sites,
places, and artifacts that preserve and
demonstrate culturally significant aspects of
California's history and for grants for these
purposes.” The CCHE Endowment is responsible for
distributing $122 million in Proposition 40 funds.
Seventy-eight million has been allocated and the
remaining $43 million will be allocated in 2007.
For
more information about the California Cultural and
Historical Endowment, please contact Executive
Officer Diane Matsuda at (916) 651-8768 or email
at dmatsuda@library.ca.gov.
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