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An image can have powerful consequences. Explore how artists are using the visual arts to empower and elevate a point of view.

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Can Artists Use Technology to Enable Communities?
SOCiAL: Art + People speaks with Anne Bray, founder of LA Freewaves, and Fabian Wagmistert about how they create generative, civically-engaged networks in Los Angeles.
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reFRAME L.A. County: Stories From Our Communities
"We Are Talking Pyramids", a public art project, gave young artists the opportunity to work with leaders in many contemporary art fields, opening up their worlds to art forms they had never before encountered.
Acerbic Art: Mark Bryan's Fantastical (and Political) Worlds
San Luis Obispo artist Mark Bryan puts politics in the forefront, pairing his satirical subject matter with sly, seductive humor.
The Space Between: Gina Osterloh's "Shadow" Residency at LACE
Gina Osterloh explores the wavering line between figure and ground during her residency at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).
Indian Realism: Catherine Nelson-Rodriguez's Art of Endurance
American Indian Catherine Nelson-Rodriguez is an artist from the trenches. Persevering through tremendous physical and emotional hardship, she paints without pretense of the pain in her heart and her mind.
Resurrection Machines of Ancient Egypt in San Bernardino and of Ancient Cinema in Hollywood
Tyler Stallings explores the remnants and culture of ancient Egypt at CSUSB's Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art and the influence of Egyptomania in Los Angeles.
This Is Slick: A Conversation with Graffiti Writer/Clothing Designer Slick
L.A. graffiti writer/street clothing designer Slick talks about working with Ice Cube, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. and Pharcyde, and why his iconic "L.A. Hands" don't belong to a certain mouse from Anaheim.
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The Sound and Vision of Jack Goldstein
"Jack Goldstein X 10,000", on display now at OCMA, features the paintings, films, writing, and installations of an artist who expressed his creativity in whichever material or medium fit his expression best.
Brawls and All: The Richard White Way
Ceramic artist Richard White's work comes in all shapes and sizes, from pottery to performing fired-in-place exhibits. Always an innovator, Richard continues to mine the creative process for inspiration.
Elle-jé Freeheart: Outsider Artist/Inside Job
Elle-jé Freeheart, an aesthetician, inventor, business woman, massage therapist, book illustrator, sculptor, painter and poet, is engaged in a life-long commitment to being a "deliberate creator" of her own reality.
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Chasing 'The Yellow Line:' Simon Rouby's Highway Art
For his new project "YELLOW LINE," French filmmaker Simon Rouby tagged along with hulking freeway striping machines, placing canvases underneath these snail-paced trucks, creating art from the yellow paint meant for the road.
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The Re-imagined Histories of Iosif Kiraly
Find out more about Romanian artist Iosif Kiraly who's residency at 18th Street Arts Center took place earlier this year.
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