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Since time immemorial, artists have been using what is available to them to share their message. Learn how creativity cross-pollinates among disciplines.

Doug Aitken, "Underwater Pavilions." | Photo: Matt Crotty
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Participants stand on a platform placed on top of the sand at Santa Monica Beach. The participants are waving around different colored scarves in the air. The sky above them is overcast.
In the pandemic, Air, an arts residency focused on climate change, transforms into a nomadic institution.
Children and their parents from Compton’s McKinley K-8 School of Integrated Arts smile at the camera while doing arts and crafts activities.
Reimagining and reinvesting in public education is critical for any society to move forward. Three schools in Los Angeles County show how arts education can be transformative to a young mind.
Interior of “Hindsight Is 2020: Dispatches from the Edge of an Apocalypse,” exhibition-in-a-box. | Carol Cheh
James MacDevitt’s art-in-a-box exhibition offers “a physical alternative to the online exhibitions that have become the new normal.”
Sharon Hayes performs “In the Near Future” in 2009. | Courtesy of UCLA
What does embracing love — be it cis, trans, gay, straight or queer — have to do with politics and social justice? As it turns out, quite a bit.
Mural at Mafundi Institute | Still from "Broken Bread" Watts
An arts movement emerged in ‘60s Watts. In response, federal and local law enforcement enacted counterinsurgency programs that infiltrated and co-opted Black arts and culture institutions and surveilled and targeted activists, artists and community member
Alison Saar’s “Torch Song,” 2020 in wood, copper, ceiling tin, enamel paint, leather belts and vintage piano keys (72 x 22 x 26) next to Heather Gwen Martin’s “Touch” from 2020. Oil on linen, 60 x 56 in.  | Jordan Riefe
For its 45th anniversary, LA Louver is bringing together 45 artists of the past and the present to tell the story of L.A.'s modern art scene.
Les Uniques Social Club initiation ceremony of new officers at the Buckman home in Santa Monica, 1954. | Persil Lewis. Courtesy of the Quinn Research Center
“We get it all the time — people come up to us and say, ‘We didn't know that Black people live in Santa Monica,” Carolyne Edwards said. “And there was a huge population there.”
Olvera Street postcard with City Hall in the background from the Security Pacific National Bank Collection | Los Angeles Public Library Olvera Street 
Olvera Street should be teeming with life at this moment, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put a stop to the once-bustling area and there is a fear that this scene could become permanent.
Erin Christovale | Paley Fairman
How can museums and other arts institutions support Black creatives? For Erin Christovale, it's a little more radical than just hiring Black and buying Black.
The Padilla children work on their nature-themed float for the virtual Rose Parade. | Courtesy of David Eads
As staying at home has become the norm, children are finding ways to cope and express their creativity through surprising artworks, aided by adults and cultural institutions.
A gloved hand holds an envelope in Sean Griffith's contribution to Susan Silton's "Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" project | Courtesy of Susan Silton
“If we’re not able to deliver body bags to this president, let’s deliver bags of handwritten names of those we’ve lost,” Susan Silton’s ‘“Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!” project websites states.
A ghost grid of the desolate federally-held lands of the Mojave Desert. | Kim Stringfellow
Jackrabbit Homesteading and California City are examples of two uniquely bizarre mid-century development patterns found in the Mojave Desert.
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