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  • ABOUT
    • Welcome
    • Impact
      • Strategic Plan 2023-28
      • Impact Report 2023-24
    • History and mission
    • Staff directory
  • PROGRAMS
    • For youth
      • School-day: K-8th grades
      • Self-select classes: 6th-12th grades
      • College and career readiness: 11th-12th grades
    • For educators and parents/guardians
    • For audiences
    • Community resources
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Attend events
    • Volunteer
    • Support
    • Stay up to date
    • Employment
  • MEDIA
    • Photo gallery
    • Videos
    • Press
  • CONTACT
  • DONATE
    • Make a one-time donation
    • Matching gifts
    • Become a member

LATEST NEWS

March 15, 2023  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Joanna Berkowitz

Joanna is so happy to be a member of the coordinating team at Inner-City Arts, combining her loves for theatre, the arts, and education. She was born and raised in the Coachella Valley and then went on to study in New York, graduating from Barnard College of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in […]

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January 9, 2023  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Rosanna Tullio

Rosanna is a strategic fundraiser with over 20 years of experience in the non-profit sector. Prior to Inner-City Arts, Rosanna worked at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Providence Saint Joseph Health and Services, and as a fundraising consultant for Good Ways Inc. Born and raised in Venezuela, Rosanna obtained her BA in Visual Arts from Emerson […]

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January 5, 2023  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Zion El-Amin
Teaching Artist, Dance
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January 5, 2023  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Matías Anaya

Matías specializes in teaching guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion and music production. At Inner-City Arts she developed the Rock Band program for youth of all skill levels to perform in a band. As a musician she has her own solo project and has performed with a wide variety of local artists and bands. Her primary genres […]

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January 5, 2023  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Anabel Vallin

After graduating from San Francisco State University, Anabel pursued opportunities teaching English as a Second Language in classrooms abroad and has experience as an Education Placement Counselor for the School District of San Francisco. Her personal passions have always included the visual arts, as she enjoys painting and producing art shows. Inner-City Arts is a […]

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August 4, 2022  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Alma Villegas

Alma is a Development professional with extensive cross-sector experience in non-profit organizations, for-profit corporations, and government agencies. Alma specializes in strategic leadership by creating fundraising plans, managing and producing award-winning grants, producing annual galas and events, cultivating donor support and stewardship. As the previous Director of Development and Communications at the arts non-profit artworxLA, she […]

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June 27, 2022  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Giselle Barrios

Born in Guatemala and raised in South Los Angeles, Giselle earned her BA in History and Education. She began to attend Inner-City Arts in 2013 as a freshman in high school, taking every dance class she could enroll in and eventually joining the Inner-City Arts Dance Company. As a program coordinator, she is responsible for […]

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May 24, 2021  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Shelby Williams-González

With 20 years of experience in the arts education field and 22 years as a professional dancer, Shelby Williams-González has a career made up of overlapping networks. Artist, educator, and leader pushing for social change.  Shelby has taught dance and performing arts for LAUSD, as well as developed programs for non-profit organizations such as The […]

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May 24, 2021  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Holly Le

Holly is the staff accountant at Inner-City Arts.

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December 14, 2020  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Ashley Margo

Ashley loves exploring spatial relationships, color, and typography with students of all ages. She is a multimedia designer and art director who has been on teams that race against time in theaters and recording studios, collaborated to create winter wonderlands for television, summer camps and art classrooms for new media feature films, and worked on […]

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December 14, 2020  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Cynthia Nava

Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Cynthia Nava earned her BFA in Illustration from California State University, Long Beach. Cynthia is a teaching artist who loves to share her enthusiasm and love for art with her students. Her playful and colorful illustrations have been featured in various art shows and events in the […]

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August 20, 2019  |  By Inner City Arts
Matthew Sutphin

A native Angeleno, Matthew’s love of the arts started at a young age when he began acting in school plays. He later attended California State University Northridge where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. Prior to joining the Inner-City Arts team, Matthew worked at Center Theatre Group for 3 ½ years, where he […]

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Founded in 1989, Inner-City Arts offers a safe, creative space in Los Angeles where more than 200,000 children have been invited to create and explore. Inner-City Arts provides quality arts instruction for students from underserved communities, integrated arts workshops for educators, and programming designed for the community through The Rosenthal Theater.
    
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