Spectrum Mural

Santa Maria Spectrum is a six-part mural unified by a rainbow pattern that stretches across the Social Services building facade. The bright bands of color illuminate various scenes of the region’s histories, cultures, and environments. People and wildlife, music and dance, and natural and agricultural landscapes are featured throughout the mural. Some maps of Santa Barbara County’s land grants listed with their place names and historical dates are also included.

Wayne Alaniz Healy cofounded the mural team East Los Streetscapers in collaboration with David Botello in 1975. The collective emerged from the Chicano Mural Movement to create socially and culturally relevant public art.

Commissioned by the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, this project was made possible by the County of Santa Barbara’s Percent for Arts Program.

Medium: Mural

Wayne Healy

Wayne Healy, born 1946 in Santa Barbara, grew up in East Los Angeles, where political events in the 1960s stimulated his commitment to execute socially and culturally relevant public art. In the third grade he collaborated on a dinosaur mural with David Botello. In 1975, the two ran into each other after many years, and Healy and Botello co-founded what became the mural team known as East Los Streetscapers.
In 1992, Healy and artist Roberto Delgado were awarded a grant by the Joint Spanish/U.S. Committee for Educational and Cultural Cooperation to paint murals in Barcelona, Spain. They have created murals and public art works throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico with traveling exhibitions including “Le Demon des Anges”, “2001: Hispanic Artists’ Odyssey,” and “Chicano Codices,” Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California. Healy’s work was also featured in “Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge” – a traditional art exhibition presenting the works of a wide range of the country’s Chicano and Chicana artists.