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.
popantipop is an independent label, management company, and recording studio.
Pop-Life: Why Melrose Avenue is a Mecca for Graffiti Writers
Pop-Life: Why Melrose Avenue is a Mecca for Graffiti Writers
Melrose Avenue has served as a center for local graffiti artists, including MEAR ONE, AXIS, DYTCH, and LYNK, since the 1980s.
Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Goes to London
Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Goes to London
The selection of ten members of the L.A. Phil's Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) for the Discover Dudamel Orchestra proves that that the social activism side of YOLA -- the part that says music has the power to transform lives -- is working.
Surf Nicaragua: The Nomadic Work of Paul Rodriguez
Surf Nicaragua: The Nomadic Work of Paul Rodriguez
Paul Rodriguez is a migratory visual artist producing a colorful, natural array of work utilizing different mediums to a beautifully arresting effect.
Welcome to Alexandra Grant's Interior Forest
Welcome to Alexandra Grant's Interior Forest
"Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest" is a project by L.A.-based artist Alexandra Grant encompassing a series of public drawing sessions, reading groups, artist collaborations and an installation at 18th Street Arts Center.
Eaton Science Fiction Conference Makes Riverside the Center of the Known Universe
Eaton Science Fiction Conference Makes Riverside the Center of the Known Universe
The 2013 Eaton Science Fiction Conference examines science fiction in multiple media.
Lo-Fi Sci-Fi: Alexandro Segade's 'The Holo Library'
Lo-Fi Sci-Fi: Alexandro Segade's 'The Holo Library'
UCR ARTSblock and Queer Lab, an initiative supporting queer studies at UC Riverside, is sponsoring a performance of "The Holo Library," a play between performance art and theater, at The Culver Arts Center on April 11.
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icon, Architecture/ Design discipline

Architecture/ Design

California becomes an international export by redefining the concept of city and home.

icon, Community Arts discipline

Community Arts

Through workshops, education and placed based projects, art is the connective tissue of a community.

icon, Cultural Politics discipline

Cultural Politics

Funding bubbles, cultural deserts and the politics of access to the arts in the 21st century.

icon, Film & Media Arts discipline

Film & Media Arts

At the shadow of the entertainment industry, video artists and underground filmmakers take a stand.

icon, Literature discipline

Literature

Noir, sunshine and dystopia create a multi-ethnic narrative that is read, watched and admired around the globe.

icon, Multi-Disciplinary discipline

Multi-Disciplinary

Multi-hyphenate works that combine disciplines, remix dogmas, and reinvent the wheel.

icon, Music discipline

Music

A dialogue between cultures, the music of our state serves up the California dream like no other artform.

icon, Performance discipline

Performance

Staging the drama of California through dance, music and theater.

icon, Visual Arts discipline

Visual Arts

Breaking away from the European and New York vanguard, California reinvents the art world.


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