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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LA Commons Staff
Oct 7, 2021
Yo-Yo Ma Day of Action
Los Angeles Day of Action with Yo-Yo Ma
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leslie5632
Jun 27, 2021
2021 Festival of Masks PROGRAM
11TH ANNUAL LEIMERT PARK DAY OF THE ANCESTORS: FESTIVAL OF MASKS Thiossane: Looking Back, Moving Forward SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2021, 12PM PT...
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LA Commons Staff
Jun 10, 2021
Artist Spotlight: Noni Olabisi
Noni Olabisi is one of LA's most well regarded visual artists. Artist and muralist with over 25 years experience, receiving many awards...
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LA Commons Staff
Apr 22, 2021
The Art of Well-Being: Now on a Bus Bench Near You
Last year, the Mayor’s Office and the City’s Cultural Affairs and Emergency Management Departments came together to envision a wonderful...
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LA Commons Staff
Apr 8, 2021
2021 Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks at the Leimert Park Artwalk Kick-Off
The Mask Festival Season is almost here! This year at Day of the Ancestors, experience Thiossane, the Senegalese way of taking cues from...
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LA Commons Staff
Mar 25, 2021
Nobuko Miyamoto
"I sometimes feel like I’m a bull in the china shop in the JA community. But I just have to talk about this. These stories comes from...
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LA Commons Staff
Jan 28, 2021
John O’Neal
"John O’Neal, co-founder of FST and founding Artistic Director of Junebug Productions has centered his work on stories because, as he...
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LA Commons Staff
Jan 14, 2021
An Influential Legacy
John Outterbridge For details about the life of John Outterbridge who died late last year, visit these links: https://www.latimes.com/obi...
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LA Commons Staff
Nov 24, 2020
Giving Tuesday: Support Small Businesses this Holiday Season
Gail Hawkins, Owner, Cultural Interiors Photo by Jason Lewis Los Angeles Standard Newspaper At the top of the hill, where Slauson and...
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LA Commons Staff
Nov 11, 2020
Bruce Lemon Jr.
We have had a love/love relationship with Bruce Lemon for years. One of our programming partners in his native Watts and a beloved emcee...
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LA Commons Staff
Oct 29, 2020
Artist Spotlight: Aram Han Sifuentes
Aram Han Sifuentes is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist working in fiber, performance, and social practice art. In anticipation of...
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LA Commons Staff
Oct 22, 2020
Bridging Divides: Art, Culture & Immigration
This just in, a new report published by Artplace America and Welcoming America, Bridging Divides, Creating Community: Arts, Culture, and...
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LA Commons Staff
Oct 22, 2020
Self-Help Graphics & Art
Official Self Help Graphics Dia De Los Muertos Design by Sandy Rodriguez At the height of the Chicano Civil Rights movement in 1970,...
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LA Commons Staff
Sep 22, 2020
Liliflor Ramirez
Liliflor Ramirez Liliflor Ramirez, Cihuatlzin Mujer Guerrera, Acrylic on canvas, 12” x 120”, 2017 What is your approach to artmaking? My...
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LA Commons Staff
Sep 10, 2020
Grace Lynne Haynes
Grace Lynne Haynes CONGRATULATIONS GRACE! A lead artist on several LA Commons’ projects, Grace’s art recently graced (haha!) a second...
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LA Commons Staff
Sep 10, 2020
Tamica Washington Miller
Tamica Washington Miller Tamica is a member of the legendary Washington family of artists in Los Angeles which includes the illustrious...
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LA Commons Staff
Sep 10, 2020
Artivists promoting Covid-19 Safety
This summer, seven artists came together under the auspices of LA’s Department of Cultural Affairs and LA Commons to create images to...
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