ONLINE CAMPAIGN CELEBRATION

Did you miss our Zoom call last Friday?

Did you miss the finale of our 28th Anniversary Campaign + Online Auction? Don't fret, we have the Zoom presentation in its entirety here! Watch for student updates, campaign updates, and a preview on the closing of our auction! If you missed a chance to participate, our online campaign is still available for donations or place your AD in our debut Yearbook.

WE GOT THE GRANT!

Thank you to California Arts Council.

We make art, and we make a difference! California Arts Council is supporting our work through their Jump Starts Grant, Reentry Through the Arts Grant, Youth Arts Action Grant, and Artists in Schools Grant program! We’re thankful to the state of California for supporting artworxLA!

ADVP VIRTUAL ART GALLERY

Tomorrow our students' online gallery goes live!

We hope you will join us in celebrating the work of our Advanced Programs students who have continued creating art through distance learning. We are excited to share their work in a virtual exhibition, Can't Stop Us, that will open this Saturday, May 23rd. The exhibition includes works they have been creating virtually during the residency programs, with a culminating final project.

For their final projects, students created album covers as self-portraits. They took inspiration from two incredible bodies of work: Shizu Saldamando's solo exhibition L.A. Intersections at Oxy Arts, and Stephanie Burt's book of poetry, Advice from the Lights. Students visited Saldamando's exhibition during a field trip earlier this Spring, and have been reading and responding to Burt's book both physically and now virtually. They used the process of creating these self-portraits to reflect on their own identities and experiences at this time. The process incorporated poetry, visual language, drawing, and collage. 

Please join us in congratulating them on their excellent work. Visit artworxla.org/advanced-programs to see the exhibition when it goes live this Saturday!

We are grateful to NEA Big Read, Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles, and Oxy Arts for their continued support of our students and engagement with our Advanced Programs Spring Residencies. Huge thank you to teaching artists Daniel Paige (Otis College of Art and Design) and Alan Lawrence (ArtCenter College of Design) for inspiring and guiding our students beginning projects.

WE RISE 2020

Drawing Your Dreams with artworxLA

Tue, May 26, 2020

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT

Draw your dreams into reality. Join artworxLA for an interactive workshop exploring our goals and dreams through drawing at home. We will develop a journey map imagining how you would like to grow towards your goals in the future, along with three action items. This workshop is presented by our amazing Advanced Programs team!

WE RISE 2020: Virtual May is a month-long spotlight on wellbeing and healing through art, music and creative expression to help the entire Los Angeles County community. We are stronger together. And together, we are building a community where everyone feels a sense of belonging, connection, meaning and purpose. WE RISE is a safe space where all are welcome.