LJWorld: In his murals honoring Lawrence’s La Yarda community, artist Javy Ortiz sees reflections of his own immigrant story

By Bremen Keasey

While he was planning the public art project that will soon adorn part of the Lawrence Loop trail at Eighth and Delaware streets, Ortiz, a Mexican-born artist based in Lawrence, got to sit down with some former residents of the La Yarda complex, which was built in the 1920s and destroyed by a flood in 1951.