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Ashley Margo
Lead Designer + Teaching Artist, Media Arts
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 […]
Cynthia Nava
Teaching Artist, Visual & Media Arts
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 […]
Michael Sample
Co-Artistic Director
Michael Sample is grateful to work alongside the team at Inner-City Arts. He has spent the last 15 years of his career working in arts education, developing programs for children, families, and educators with international nonprofit organizations. Prior to his work in the education and nonprofit sector, Michael was an award-winning professional actor, performing in […]
Karina Mata
Teaching Artist, Media Arts
Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Karina Mata received her Bachelor of Arts degrees in Film and Media Studies and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Among some of her passions are taking pictures with her grandpa’s Polaroid Land Camera, helping her niece reach her goal of attaining one hundred subscribers on […]
Eva Perez
Lead Teaching Artist, Visual Arts
Eva is a practicing visual artist and teaching artist who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics “La Esmeralda” in Mexico. For over 20 years, Eva has taught visual arts to both children and adults in many different arts organizations in the US and Mexico, including USC […]
Jennifer Carroll
Associate Director of Education
For over 20 years, Jennifer has worked in the field of arts and education as a professional actress, teaching artist, classroom teacher, administrator and program leader. She holds a BFA in Drama Production from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University. She believes that giving oneself […]
Bob Bates
Teaching Artist, Dance
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 […]
