Our campus was in for a real treat this past month with visits from several notable artists and makers who engaged with our students by working alongside them in the studio setting and by sharing experiences from their own creative careers. On June 22nd, we welcomed two Oscar-nominated screenwriters, Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz Huyck (American Graffiti,Indiana […]
Untitled, 1972 by Billy Al Bengston — Los Angeles Confidential magazine’s featured cover artist — is featured in a special auction. All net proceeds from the piece will benefit Inner-City Arts. “To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his acclaimed canvas Riders of Destiny, Bengston’s mysterious, ethereal work graces the cover of our annual arts issue. In […]
Since its Downtown LA opening in fall of last year, The Broad Museum has become a key arts education tool for our city — making contemporary art accessible to all Angelenos, our students included. We recently wrapped up another session in partnership with The Broad, where our teaching artists utilized the museum’s featured collection as […]
A Stop Motion Rotoscope Animation by Commonwealth Elementary 5th Grade Students at Inner-City Arts with Teaching Artists Joannza Lo and Ivan Lopez A class of fifth graders utilized over 1,000 still frames to create this animated video. The animation–a collaborative effort–was produced by printing sliced footage of students dancing. Together, the classroom hand-painted and illustrated 30 […]
Eliot Arts Magnet teaching faculty, classroom support staff, and administrators recently participated in an extraordinary professional development day led by Inner City Arts, one of the foremost arts and arts-integration education providers in the United States. Read more at Pasadena Now.
