Inner-City Arts
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    • 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
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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

May 12, 2023  |  By matt@wpbacked.com
Justine Adeboyejo

Justine Adeboyejo is a teaching artist and painter from Chicago, IL. She has exhibited work both nationally and internationally in Barcelona, Spain. She earned her Masters in Early Childhood Education and has completed art education coursework at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Both her personal art studio practice and teaching practice are […]

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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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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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April 10, 2017  |  By Inner City Arts
Rebecca Tager

Rebecca is a dedicated arts educator with over two decades of experience teaching in Los Angeles. Since 2017, she has been leading the ceramics program at Inner-City Arts. Her passion for ceramics began in high school and has since evolved into a thriving home studio practice teaching adults and teens, where she has shared her […]

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May 29, 2016  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Karina Mata

Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Karina Mata received double Bachelor of Arts degrees in Film and Media Studies and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Among some of her passions are making her niece laugh, taking pictures with her grandpa’s Polaroid Land Camera, exploring new methods for photo printing, and encouraging […]

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Eva Perez
May 29, 2016  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Eva C. Perez

Eva is a practicing visual and teaching artist with an M.A.Ed. from The Art of Education University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking “La Esmeralda” from the Fine Arts Institute of Mexico. She is the lead Visual Arts teaching artist at Inner-City Arts, where she has […]

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May 29, 2016  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Jennifer Carroll

For close to 25 years, Jennifer has worked in the field of arts and education as a professional actress, teaching artist, classroom teacher, administrator and program leader. She leads the Professional Development department facilitating arts education workshops for teachers, administrators, teaching artists and community members. She also teaches drama to all ages TK-12th. As an […]

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May 29, 2016  |  By Matthew Sutphin
Bob Bates

Bob Bates has been a professional artist for over fifty years and has taught art throughout the country, including at the University of Miami in Florida. While working with kids on Skid Row in Los Angeles, Bob had a spiritual vision: to create an art space where at-risk children could explore their creativity, learn and […]

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What We Do

  • Overview
    • Learning and Achieving Through the Arts
    • The Visual, Media & Performing Arts Institutes
    • Summer Art Programs
  • For Educators
    • Creativity in the Classroom
    • UPstarts
    • The Education, Arts and Social-Emotional Learning (EASEL) Program
  • The Rosenthal Theater
  • Annual Impact Report
  • Art Forms

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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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