Staff Spotlight: Dena Cheng
Meet Dena Cheng (she/her), Development and Communications Manager at LA Commons! Dena is from North Hills in the San Fernando Valley and...
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LA Commons Staff
- Jan 12
About My Fellowship At the Getty!
In the first three months of 2023, I’ll have the extraordinary honor of serving as a Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute...
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LA Commons Staff
- Dec 8, 2022
A Karen becomes Mayor of LA
Lately, I have had a twinge of embarrassment at having the name Karen. Doing a Google search, you can understand why as the first thing...
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LA Commons Staff
- Nov 24, 2022
Join Us in Sustaining Strong, Vibrant Los Angeles Communities
Giving Tuesday is next week on November 29! We invite you to partner with us to fund the leadership of artists and youth as we...
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LA Commons Staff
- Nov 10, 2022
Art vs Hate
October 2022 was truly a scary month. Yeah there are all those creepy decorations, people dressed in spooky costumes and terrifying...
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LA Commons Staff
- Oct 27, 2022
A Recap: Creating Our Next LA Takeover of The Music Center’s Jerry Moss Plaza
As part of the first Grand Ave Arts Access celebration in 3 years, LA Commons partnered with the Music Center and several organizations...
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LA Commons Staff
- Oct 19, 2022
Join us for Creating Our Next LA: A Celebration of Our Collective Vision
This Saturday, LA Commons will be taking over The Music Center for a day of artmaking, poetry, dance, and community building to...
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LA Commons Staff
- Oct 12, 2022
There is a Silver Lining
Power to the people!!! Protesters gathered outside Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday. Credit: Lauren Justice for The New York Times. We...
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LA Commons Staff
- Sep 29, 2022
The Intersection of Arts and Health
Promoting community wellness through the Fremont Healthy Culture Hub. Los Angeles County Arts and Health Week Summit on June 15, 2022....
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LA Commons Staff
- Sep 15, 2022
Uplifting the Cultural Treasures of South LA
Featuring the California African American Museum, Adé Neff, and Ben Caldwell. Vison Theater, Leimert Park Cultural Treasures of South LA...
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LA Commons Staff
- Aug 18, 2022
Introducing our 2022 Summer Interns
We have been blessed this summer to have an incredible group of interns through the Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program. Hailing...
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LA Commons Staff
- Aug 11, 2022
Working Together to Capture Crenshaw
Meet the photographers behind our new Getty 25 Celebrates Crenshaw exhibition: Crenshaw Remembers: Cultural Treasures of the District...
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LA Commons Staff
- Jul 7, 2022
Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks at the Leimert Park Artwalk 2022
Clockwise from top left: Lula Washington Dancers perform in honor of Lark Galloway-Gilliam, Veronica Mayes-Jackson and Loretta Jones;...
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LA Commons Staff
- Jun 26, 2022
2022 Festival of Masks Program UNITY + LEGACY = HEALING
12th Annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks at the Leimert Park Art Walk Sunday, June 26, 2022 Welcome to our 12th installment of...
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LA Commons Staff
- Jun 9, 2022
Share your vision for LA with a song
Attendees at the Music Center Plaza's Dance DTLA event In Spring of 2020, as the pandemic took hold, LA Commons devised the idea of...
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LA Commons Staff
- Apr 28, 2022
Leading with Cultural Equity
In order of appearance: Janice Hahn, Hilda Solis, Holly J. Mitchell, Sheila Kuehl, and Kathryn Barger Highlighting Holly J. Mitchell,...
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Karen Mack
- Jan 31, 2022
Noni Olabisi - On Becoming
Noni Olabisi had the perfect opportunity during this time, a residency at South LA based Arts at Blue Roof. A solo show culled from the...
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Karen Mack
- Jan 24, 2022
WHAT DOES CULTURAL EQUITY LOOK LIKE TO YOU?
Last year I became a co-chair of the Advisory Committee for LA County’s Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative (CEII). It’s a role I...
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Karen Mack
- Dec 13, 2021
Donor Spotlight: Ethnic Studies Leader Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona
Our donor Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona just celebrated a great victory. In November, California became the first state in the nation to...
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Karen Mack
- Nov 1, 2021
Board Member Nominated to Chair National Endowment for the Arts.
Maria Rosario Jackson was recently nominated to chair the National Endowment for the Arts!! She joined our board of directors 5 years...
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