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Jun 07, 2017 Fifth-grade art show and noise jam at Wirtz Elementary with members of the Big Boys, Minutemen, No Age…

by Martin Wong

My friend Erik Caruso is a fifth-grade teacher at Wirtz Elementary who thinks that art and music are as important to kids' educations as reading, writing, arithmetic, and everything else. And since there isn't time or budget for it in his classroom, for the last eight years he has organized an after-school art program for...

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Jun 07, 2016 Mural painting and art show at Wirtz Elementary 2016

by Martin Wong

This is the time of year when my friend Erik Caruso and I gush about each other's work. He tells me how much he digs Save Music in Chinatown, our efforts to raise money for music education at my daughter's school, Castelar Elementary, by channeling the historic neighborhood's punk rock past. I say that what...

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Jun 03, 2014 New Mural at Wirtz Elementary School

by Martin Wong

I'm super proud of my friend Erik Caruso, who teaches fifth grade at Wirtz Elementary in Paramount. In response to the lack of funding for the arts in public education, he has approached and engaged some of his favorite contemporary artists to start a very cool tradition at his school. For five years, students have...