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Inner-City Arts, the nonprofit organization in downtown L.A.’s Skid Row that provides free arts education to disadvantaged youth, has named Joseph A. Collins as its new president and chief executive officer. Collins replaces Cynthia Harnisch Breunig, who left the organization in July after more than 12 years to become chief executive of the Girl Scouts […]

It’s that time of year again. Mailboxes and e-mail inboxes are full of sentimental appeals fordonations to help America’s most needy. Here’s a fact they usually don’t tell you. Tax attorneys who set up many of these charities charge $650 an hour and often make over a million dollars a year. Their rates and administrative […]

Why Kate Middleton chose to patronise The Art Room, an art therapy charity that helps children with emotional difficulties It is remarkable that, out of the four charitable patronages that The Duchess of Cambridge announced on the 5 January, two were dedicated to art. The National Portrait Gallery, of course, makes sense: it is a […]

This past week, I had the privilege to interview one of directors of the non-profit arts organization Inner-City Arts. It is located in the heart of Skid Row. To date, it has been one of the most overwhelming and amazing experiences I’ve had as a UCLA student. As part of my class assignment, my group […]

Schools in the UK have been working with partners in South Africa, India and the US on an international Shakespeare project run by the British Council in the build-up to Festival 2012. – Read more at BBC

It’s safe to say that without a robust education in the arts, many of our city’s best and brightest people would have never found success. Even beyond the movie stars, visual artists and musicians that call Los Angeles home, have proven that arts education improves literacy, spatial reasoning, and every other conceivable metric of early […]

An audience of over 100 grade school students at Los Angeles’s Inner City Arts got a big treat recently when world famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with locally-based dancer Charles Riley for a rendition of “The Dying Swan.” In the performance, Ma uses his high-brow style of performance to provide the soundtrack for Riley’s […]

In reviewing the over 60 blogs I’ve posted in this past year on The Huffington Post, I wondered if there was a pattern in my series of observations that I could present as the “messages” for the year. If there are any, they would be in my critiques of some of the mistaken ideas about […]

With ever-increasing budget cuts negatively affecting US schools, it has been up to independent nonprofits to step in and make up for the deficit in arts programming. Across the country, arts education programs are teaching kids to draw, act, dance and, most importantly, gain an appreciation for the arts. We aren’t sure where we’d be […]

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) welcomed Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-31) and Congresswomen Laura Richardson (CA-37), Maxine Waters (CA-35) and Diane Watson (CA-33) to Inner-City Arts for a dialogue on arts education, the cultural economy and civic engagement. Inner-City Arts is a non-profit arts education center on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry, 9th […]

At a recent panel hosted by GOOD and the University of Phoenix, I had the honor to join Jan Kirsch from Inner City Arts, Cynthia Campoy-Brophy from The HeArt Project, and Sophia Klatzker from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. We discussed the changing environment of schools and how our programs are working to help […]