Photo credit: Craig Johnson Photography [for more photos] “My dance is home! A place where I can let go of all my fear and show the world who I truly am and the power I have within.” — Giselle Barrios, 2018 Inner-City Arts Repertory Dance Company This month, the Inner-City Arts Repertory Dance Company not […]
“I spent most of my life doing what you are doing right now—exploring and discovering,” said former NFL football player and current CEO of The Imagination Agency Martellus Bennett to a theater filled with middle school students. “Creativity is something you can never discover enough of, so you always have to find new ways to […]
New Board Chair Jonathan Schreter volunteers in the Ceramics Studio, supporting middle school students enrolled in summer programming. Photo credit: Kenzie Kate Floyd Inner-City Arts is thrilled to announce the appointment of longstanding board member and supporter Jonathan Schreter to Board Chair. “Inner-City Arts has spent the past 29 years deepening and strengthening their impact […]
Photo credit: Andrey Andreev [ VIEW MORE PHOTOS ] This month, we celebrated the 2018 Work of Art graduating class, sending the cadre of 17 students off to pursue their creative career or college endeavors. The graduation program–attended by family, friends and supporters–highlighted student artwork and performances. Students heard from Inner-City Arts alumnus Kenneth Chancey and […]
Year after year, Summer on Seventh continues to be an amazing celebration that brings together people from all over Los Angeles to experience the fun and transformational power of creativity, but this year seemed especially memorable! We welcomed hundreds of Angelenos to our campus to enjoy musical performances from Mark Ronson, Mayer Hawthorne, Travis Holcombe, […]
At the start of this Winter’s Learning and Achieving Through the Arts session, our teaching artists and program staff collaborated to develop new programming tailored to meet and support the unique social, cognitive and creative developmental needs of our middle school youth. Over the course of 4 months and 16 weekly meetings, middle school students and their […]
Last year, LIFEWTR connected with Inner-City Arts and asked us to nominate students to consider for their latest design bottle series. The new Series 4 artwork highlights the work of three emerging artists who discovered a more inspired future through arts education programs available to them in their communities. We’re proud to share with you […]
We aim to do more in 2018! But, we can’t do it without you. Thanks to you and this very vibrant community of Inner-City Arts supporters, we were able to positively impact the lives of thousands of students through the arts this year. But there’s so much more to be done in […]
We could not have asked for a more beautiful morning in Downtown Los Angeles this past Saturday, when we welcomed in hundreds of new students from the LAUSD Partnership for Los Angeles Schools to our campus for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to paint with world-renowned Panamanian artist, and friend of Inner-City Arts, Olga Sinclair! [VIEW MORE […]
At the start of Fall Session 1, we launched a new partnership with Children’s Institute, Inc.(CII), one of LA’s largest child welfare agencies, to offer arts opportunities to more students living in areas neighboring the CII Otis Booth campus just west of Downtown. Through four new visual and media arts studio classes taught by our […]
Photo Credit: Anthony Tran | Video Credit: Velo Films On Wednesday, August 16, 2017, Inner-City Arts was honored to welcome Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, to the campus for a great day of conversation with staff and Inner-City Arts supporters about the importance of arts education. Special thanks to our guests: Senator Michael […]
VIEW MORE PHOTOS HERE “We, the people, create history, dream of our future, build bridges, condemn fear, inspire hope, unite in love and equality. We, the people, must come together.” Last week, the Inner-City Arts Repertory Dance Company wrapped another successful student dance production in The Rosenthal Theater. Titled COME TOGETHER, the production centered around […]
