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 success, all of which can be translated simply into a better chance at lifelong success in any field. And while arts education in our school system has too often been a victim of impossible budget choices, programs like DTLA’s Inner-City Arts have stepped up, providing free-to-student, professional in-studio arts education to thousands of the city’s most disadvantaged children. And on Saturday night, the patrons, professionals and friends of this outstanding organization were able to come together for Summer On 7th, a night of food, drink, dancing, and of course, art.
