Partners
Artbound teams with forward-thinking institutions, non-profits, and organizations that investigate how art should be experienced in the 21st century.
18th Street Arts Center is an artists’ residency program that provokes public dialogue through contemporary art-making.
ARID: A Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology is a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal focusing on cross-disciplinary explorations of desert arts, design, culture, and the environment for both scholarly and new audiences.
Arts for LA helps communities throughout Los Angeles County advocate for greater investment in the arts.
Boom: A Journal of California is a new, cross-disciplinary publication that explores the history, culture, arts, politics, and society of California.
Big City Forum is an interdisciplinary project that facilitates the exchange of ideas through gatherings, symposiums, exhibitions, and special events that provide access to forward-thinking creative projects.
Classical KUSC, one of the largest classical stations in the nation, is a listener-supported, nonprofit public radio station broadcasting from downtown Los Angeles.
Freewaves is dedicated to the creative exhibition of the most innovative and culturally relevant independent new media art from around the world.
Friends of Friends Music is a record label and creative marketing hub
based in Los Angeles linking like minded artists, labels, brands and
media outlets in unique and forward thinking ways.
MOCAtv is a new, contemporary art video channel, developed as a digital extension of the education and exhibition programming of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Mexicali Rose is a grass roots communitarian organization dedicated to providing free access to artistic media for the community youth of Mexicali, Baja California.
Panther Productions is the professional broadcast and digital media studio at Chapman University in Orange, CA.
Proximal Records is a Los Angeles based independent record label with a mission of supporting and promoting vibrant new voices in the local electronic music community.
A series of discussions around LA about Socially Engaged Art, September to November 2012. Instigated by Anne Bray of Freewaves.org
The Skid Row Freewalls Project, a collaboration between the Skid Row Housing Trust and LALA Arts, is a large-scale public art mural project dedicated to infusing life and hope into a community of residents, workers, and commuters in the Skid Row area.
The Luckman Fine Arts Complex is the home of professional visual and performing arts on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles.
ARTSblock's mission is to provide a cultural presence, educational resource, community center and intellectual meeting ground for the university and the community.
Engine30 is an outgrowth of USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism's Master's program in arts journalism that experiments with digital media practices, systems and tools, using L.A. as a living laboratory.
The Libraries at the University of Southern California house several archival collections pertaining to Southern California architects, which include office files, drawings, slides, photographs, and architectural models.
Filmmakers Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari are creating haunting portraits of California residents in a series of web videos called "California Is a Place."
"Area 51: A Sound Installation" by Venzha Christ is a new site-specific, sound installation at UCR ARTSblock's Culver Center of the Arts.
The writer meditates on Alexandra Grant's "Fôret Interieure/Interior Forest" and introduces an original work of fiction around the central theme of the exhibition, the "perfect other."
Noah Purifoy spent the final years of his life in Joshua Tree creating the monumental "Outdoor Desert Art Museum of Assemblage Sculpture" made from tons of discarded materials.
The Cixous Reading Group, a newly formed collaboration of Los Angeles-based artists and writers, is a kind of pop-up seminar, trying to reframe what it means to be a feminist today.
Alexandra Grant speaks with French writer Hélène Cixous to discuss how her book, "Philippines," was the genesis of Grant's exhibition "Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest."
Nepalese artist Hit Man Gurung's residency at 18th Street Arts Center offers a unique perspective on
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The Pacific Conservatory of the Arts is a professional resident theater company and a two-year vocat
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It is a little-known fact that some of the silver and chemicals to produce the films that made Holly
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Melrose Avenue has served as a center for local graffiti artists, including MEAR ONE, AXIS, DYTCH, a
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Architecture/ Design
California becomes an international export by redefining the concept of city and home.
Community Arts
Through workshops, education and placed based projects, art is the connective tissue of a community.
Cultural Politics
Funding bubbles, cultural deserts and the politics of access to the arts in the 21st century.
Film & Media Arts
At the shadow of the entertainment industry, video artists and underground filmmakers take a stand.
Literature
Noir, sunshine and dystopia create a multi-ethnic narrative that is read, watched and admired around the globe.
Multi-Disciplinary
Multi-hyphenate works that combine disciplines, remix dogmas, and reinvent the wheel.
Music
A dialogue between cultures, the music of our state serves up the California dream like no other artform.
Visual Arts
Breaking away from the European and New York vanguard, California reinvents the art world.
