Untitled, 1972 by Billy Al Bengston — Los Angeles Confidential magazine’s featured cover artist — is featured in a special auction. All net proceeds from the piece will benefit Inner-City Arts. “To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his acclaimed canvas Riders of Destiny, Bengston’s mysterious, ethereal work graces the cover of our annual arts issue. In […]
Since its Downtown LA opening in fall of last year, The Broad Museum has become a key arts education tool for our city — making contemporary art accessible to all Angelenos, our students included. We recently wrapped up another session in partnership with The Broad, where our teaching artists utilized the museum’s featured collection as […]
A Stop Motion Rotoscope Animation by Commonwealth Elementary 5th Grade Students at Inner-City Arts with Teaching Artists Joannza Lo and Ivan Lopez A class of fifth graders utilized over 1,000 still frames to create this animated video. The animation–a collaborative effort–was produced by printing sliced footage of students dancing. Together, the classroom hand-painted and illustrated 30 […]
Eliot Arts Magnet teaching faculty, classroom support staff, and administrators recently participated in an extraordinary professional development day led by Inner City Arts, one of the foremost arts and arts-integration education providers in the United States. Read more at Pasadena Now.
Los Angeles-based arts education provider, Inner-City Arts, announced Monday The DreamWorks Animation Charitable Foundation has donated a grant in the amount of $250,000 over five years in continued support of theDreamWorks Animation Academy at Inner-City Arts. Inner-City Arts provides instruction in digital media, film-making and graphic design to Los Angeles area students… Read more at Below the […]
The British Council is excited to announce a new children’s theatre project in Los Angeles, in partnership with the UK theatre group Gob Squad and Inner-City Arts, an L.A. arts non-profit serving young people from low-income backgrounds, which was visited by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their L.A. visit last year. The British […]
United States Chief of Protocol Capricia Penavic Marshall will lead the Obama Administration’s latest Experience America trip to Los Angeles with members of the Diplomatic Corps and their spouses from February 28th – March 2nd, 2012. Nearly 50 ambassadors representing countries spanning five continents will spend three days learning about the history, economy, and people […]
Before celebrities grab up their Golden Globes trophies Sunday, they’ll have the chance to learn about anti-bullying, homeless and arts charities. While organizers lay out the hottest, new products at the Golden Globes Gift Lounge and the Awards Gifting Suite, they’ll also tout their charities of choice,NeonTommy.com reports. Stars will learn about Gobble, Gobble Give, […]
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 […]
