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Without in-person events to launch their new books, authors are touring virtually.
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.
Los Angeles artists have discovered innovative ways to dance together but apart.
In recent weeks, artists have found their practices upturned, expanded or reenergized because of COVID-19 and calls to address racial injustice.
The efforts of the creative community point to the importance of the arts. First responders save people from immediate situations. Second responders like those in the creative community save lives after, or during, a crisis in sometimes immeasurable ways.
As many Angelenos were under stay-at-home orders, disparities in how the virus was affecting people became clear. People of color and in low-income communities were becoming infected at higher rates in L.A. County.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels is the main church of the largest archdiocese in the country, able to seat 3,000 people. But the pandemic has forced the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to overhaul how it ministers to its five million person flock.
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated the nation's nursing homes, sickening staff members, ravaging residents and contributing to at least 20 percent of the nation's COVID-19 death toll.
Barbershops and hair salons around the state have been closed since mid-March to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. But that doesn't mean people haven't been getting haircuts, secretly, this whole time.
Carlson is one of thousands of people living with a mental illness inside an L.A. County jail. And with in-person visitation frozen because of the coronavirus, they're more cut off from the outside world than ever.
The Rev. Albert Avenido fiddled with the wires connecting the sound board to the cameras, microphones and recording equipment. He and his assistant worked late the night before to be ready for mass.
For the past nine years, Burrell has worked in the ICU at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance. But providing care for COVID-19 patients is different.