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The Rudy Bruner award comes with a $50,000 prize that will go toward arts instruction programs for ICA students. In its citation, the selection committee commended the center for addressing homelessness and the challenges facing public schools. The committee also cited the positive impact of the ICA program on impoverished or transient children. Michael Maltzan’s […]

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There is only so much reporting you can do from your computer or phone- so on Friday, March 20th, Danielle Duran, Kathleen McMullin, General Jeff and I visited 9th Street Elementary to meet the new principal, Ms. Anne Barry. The school grounds were clean, the children loud and happy. They waved as we walked by, […]

Carrie Ann meets one of her idols, Glorya Kaufman (The nation’s leading dance philanthropist) at the Inner-City Arts dedication ceremony of the Glorya Kaufman Academy of Dance!  – See more at Carrie Ann

Wedged inside Skid Row, surrounded by industry, Inner City Arts‘ Kindergarten aged children danced and tossed scarves in the air this morning to greet the opening of the Glorya Kaufman Dance Academy. A $1 million gift by the Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation will fund the program, which plans to offer free dance instruction to up […]

The Bruner Foundation is pleased to announce the 2009 Rudy Bruner Award Finalists. See the winners

When L.A.’s cultural institutions need a green makeover, they often turn to horticultural powerhouse Nancy Goslee Power. The landscape designer, known for her bold and eclectic style, has worked over some of L.A.’s most-preened locations—from the sculpture garden at the Norton Simon Museum (“The attendance doubled after the new garden was opened”) to the Music […]

“In this neighborhood the most radical thing you could do was make a white building,” architect Michael Maltzan told me on a recent afternoon as we toured the campus of Inner-City Arts, where his firm completed an $8.5-million expansion earlier this fall. – Read the article from the LA Times

Yesterday morning hundreds of students holding handmade pinwheels lined up on the street in the middle of Skid Row for a parade to celebrate the expansion of Inner-City Arts. They were joined by the staff and board members of Inner-City Arts, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, community leaders, and many guests. Everyone gathered together to commemorate a […]

VIDEO: by Lysee Mitri, USC Journalism Project on YouTube – 2:30 Dec. 2008 Coming Clean in the Inner City, LA Times LA Times, Dec. 2008 Inner-City Arts’ bright presence (photos) LA Times, Dec. 2008 The Green-Space Champion Angeleno, Dec. 2008 AUDIO II: KUSC Radio AUDIO I: KUSC Radio Editorial: An Inner-City Accomplishment LA Downtown News […]