File:Tricia Ward La Culebra 1992-present.JPG

Public environmental work by Tricia Ward/ACLA, La Tierra de la Culebra (1992–present, Highland Park Neighborhood, Los Angeles). The image illustrates a key practice in Tricia Ward's career beginning in the early 1990s when she formed the nonprofit arts and education organization, ARTScorpLA and undertook collaborative community projects to physically transform derelict urban sites into "pocket parks" and cultural spaces. This image shows her first such project, La Tierra de la Culebra and its most striking feature, a 450-foot, winding sculpture made of brick and stone. Over time the site was developed into a multi-level community park, with olive trees, herb, vegetable and flower gardens, quirky statues, furniture, and a pond; it has served as a place of recreation, education, ecological work and celebration for nearly three decades. This work has been widely discussed in major daily press publications.

Artist Tricia Ward. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work in Tricia Ward's career beginning in the early 1990s: her public and social practice art, which involved collaborations with underserved youth and urban groups to physically transform derelict urban sites into community spaces. This work combined three-dimensional artmaking, neighborhood and community revitalization, urban land use, cultural and educational programming, and civic engagement. Most of this work was undertaken through the nonprofit arts and education organization, ARTScorpLA, later renamed ACLA (Art Community Land Activism) that she formed in 1992. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this major stage and body of work, which brought Ward recognition in mainstream media outlets and publications. Ward's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other work of this type by Tricia Ward, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.