{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Through music, Vijay Gupta brings healing community to LA's Skid Row","publication_date":"January 04, 2019","summary":"Vijay Gupta is a Juilliard-trained violinist who's been using music as a way to connect with L.A.'s homeless and incarcerated and promote healing. A movement that began with one Skid Row occupant has now evolved into a group of 80 musicians who perform in shelters, jails and treatment facilities. Jeffrey Brown talks to Gupta about abuse, dysfunction and how art became his \"lifeline.\"","author_name":"By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2019\/01\/1c9ae63b58fec006eef56132fcea4315-street2-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}