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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.

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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Otis College of Art and Design has partnered with KCETLink and Artbound to provide deeper engagement with the Otis Report on the Creative Economy through online articles and video segments that will appear weekly on Artbound.
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18th Street Arts Center is an artists' residency program that provokes public dialogue through contemporary art-making.
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Boom: A Journal of California is a new, cross-disciplinary publication that explores the history, culture, arts, politics, and society of California.
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From the Archives opens the doors to cultural institutions around Southern California revealing the art and objects that are often unseen by the public.
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Created by artist Nao Bustamante, Soldadera is a "speculative reenactment" of women's participation on the front lines of the Mexican Revolution.
"Tastemakers & Earthshakers" series on KCET Artbound
The mission of the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is to serve as a unique educational resource for the diverse audiences of the college and the community.
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