 East Los Streetscapers grew out of the Chicano Mural Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a strand of muralism that "began as an arm of struggle of claiming urban space" for Chicanos.It was founded by Wayne Alaniz Healy and David Rivas Botello in 1975.Alaniz and Botello met in elementary school, and when in the third grade, collaborated on a mural.