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Arts & Culture Collections

Dive deep into Southern California’s creative consciousness. See how diverse ideas and identities meld, mix and recombine, inspiring revolutions beyond art’s borders. Learn more about the triumphs, struggles and interconnected histories that have fueled this region’s aesthetic fires.

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Live! From Somewhere is a series of performances by students, alumni, and faculty, of USC Thornton, live from… somewhere!
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Go into the studios of important artists of our time to see what they are creating during the pandemic.
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Featuring Get Lit Players, Coronavirus Diaries is spoken word poetry made to inspire hope and creativity during the pandemic.
A young girl stands in the foreground with a backdrop of flying birds and a halo of concentric circles.
As visual language becomes lingua franca in an image-driven 21st century, explore how California graphic designers have shaped global aesthetics and social movements, from counterculture and the Civil Rights era until today.
Black arts bear witness to centuries of fight not flight. See how their rich legacies continue to rally this nation’s spirit in pursuit of justice and joy.
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The thrice-weekly series offers a wide variety of programs, from cooking demos and performances to lectures and events for kids.
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Incendiary Traces is a conceptually driven, community-generated art project that explores the political act of representing the Southern California landscape by creating a series of "draw-in" events.
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Through the eye of the Liminal Camera, a repurposed shipping container, Lauren Bon and the Optics Division of The Metabolic Studio trace the movement of silver and water from the Owens Valley through pipelines and bank accounts.
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Voice of San Diego is a nonprofit provider of in-depth news and investigative reporting. We cover the issues that are crucial to the region's quality of life: its politics, educational institutions, environment, culture, housing and more.
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The Los Angeles/Islam Arts Initiative brings together nearly 30 cultural institutions throughout Los Angeles to tell various stories of traditional and contemporary art from multiple Islamic regions and their significant global diasporas.
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