By Brittny Mejia – LATimes.com – Image: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times.
Image: Joan Zamora, shown last year, works on an art project at Self-Help Graphics and Art in Boyle Heights.
Amid concerns about displacement that at one point roped it into an ongoing battle over gentrification, a venerable Eastside art institution got closer to securing its future through a planned purchase of its longtime headquarters in Boyle Heights. The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to approve an $825,000 funding commitment proposed by Councilman Jose Huizar to help Self Help Graphics and Art purchase the property along East 1st Street.
