The community center sports a brightly painted metal sculpture over its entrance by glass artist Ginny Ruffner, who also embedded bronze signs and symbols into the sidewalk for the children to decode, thanks to a One Percent for Art grant administered by the Seattle Arts Commission. The P-patch has a broken ceramic and colored glass mosaic flooring at its entry and lurid sunflowers painted on its shed. Beside the Cloverdale Street bridge is the tiny Cesar Chavez Park, a recently landscaped triangle with bunches of grass, golden flowers and large stones for seating. Neighborhood development manager Valdez hopes to get grant money for artwork in the park. Art helps create character in a neighborhood, something people can remember about their hometown and identify with on a deep level.
South Park is a multiethnic community living by the river in an industrial zone.
There's poverty there, but also a lot of hope.