Artists, community come together to welcome World Cup to Inglewood with murals and more
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A lot has changed since Jacori Perry attended Morningside High School.Perry is now a renowned artist who goes by the names Mr.Ace and AiseBorn.The school is now known as Inglewood High School United.And the lecture hall on that campus now features a large, ornate mural of a soccer ball being grasped by the hands of two people — freshly painted by the 2004 Morningside graduate as the city of Inglewood prepares to host eight World Cup games at SoFi Stadium starting next month.“If you told me that I would be back here painting one of the walls on this campus when I was in high school, I don’t think that I necessarily would have foreseen it,” Mr.
Ace said as he was putting the finishing touches on his mural last week.“So I’m a little in amazement about just the way life works in that sense.”He was one of several Los Angeles-based artists to participate in a Road to World Cup Community Day last month at Inglewood High United.
Many of the artists — including Juan Pablo Reyes (“JP murals”), Michelle Ruby Guerrero (“Mr.B Baby”) and Angel Acordagoitia — sketched designs on portable panels (12-feet by 8-feet) and picnic tables for community members to paint.The picnic tables will remain at the high school in front of Mr.
Ace’s mural.The mobile murals will be placed throughout LAX to welcome visitors arriving for the World Cup.
Kathryn Schloessman, CEO of the Los Angeles World Cup 2026 Host Committee, said in a news release that the event was “just one example of how the energy of the World Cup can be felt in neighborhoods across our region.” Food Inglewood’s historic Market Street gets an $8.5 million boost as local restaurants receive grants to renovate storefronts and revitalize the city’s corridor.“Students, artists, and volunteers came together to create a work of art that will live on well beyond the end of the tournament,” Schloessman said....