The Project
As part of the Vision Zero initiative, Clement was placed in the Policies for Livable Active Communities and Environments (PLACE) program at the Department of Public Health. His residency focused on Vision Zero, an initiative to reduce traffic fatalities and severe injuries while increasing safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for all. During his residency, Hanami collaborated with County staff and community members to develop artistic interventions, strategies, and community engagement plans to raise awareness about traffic safety and Vision Zero.
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Through a series of workshops with seniors and youth and their families in the Collision Concentration Corridors (areas in unincorporated LA County with the highest incidences of pedestrian fatalities and injuries) of East Los Angeles, Walnut Park, and Westmont/West Athens, Clement developed temporary and permanent public art works, including a bike rack, billboards, and bus shelter posters.
Learn more about the Vision Zero Initiative, which aims to reduce traffic fatalities and severe injuries while increasing safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for all.
Clement Hanami is a Japanese-American visual artist who grew up in East Los Angeles. He received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in Studio Art with a specialization in New Genres. His work has been exhibited in California, New York, and Mexico, and has been seen at the Geffen Contemporary, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Armory Center for the Arts, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, California Museum of Photography, Long Beach Museum of Art, AFI National Video Festival, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Mr. Hanami is currently the Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director at the Japanese American National Museum and his most recent projects include curating the exhibitions Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 and Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo. He taught New Genres at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts for 20 years. He was a Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of Culver City from 2004 to 2010. He received a Getty Visual Arts Fellowship in 2000 and a COLA Artist Award in 2007 given by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.
Vision Zero is a traffic safety initiative to eliminate traffic-related fatalities. It is an international movement that emphasizes a new approach to traffic safety, acknowledging that people make mistakes and focusing on system-wide practices policies, and designs to lessen the severity of collisions. Agencies that adopt a Vision Zero initiative commit to the systematic elimination of traffic deaths and severe injuries for all roadway users. To achieve success, this approach requires data driven decision making, an understanding of health equity, multi-disciplinary collaboration within and outside of government, and regular communication with the public.