Angel City Culture Quest

Anne’s Jewelry is loosely based on Archetypes and her work is defined by four categories:   Elemental Obsession Tribal Modern Faceted Light With new categories to come. In her Sculpture, Anne’s artistic process is ever-evolving, driven by spontaneous experimentation and inspirations drawn from film, literature, iconic imagery, and everyday life, all of which lead to deeper layers of meaning and un...

Light, energy, and beauty are the subjects of my work. My light sculptures are inspired by the fluid grace and endless variation in form of the inhabitants of our translucent seas and botanical realms. With electricity, I transform the noble gasses Krypton, Neon, Xenon and Argon, illuminating my glass forms to show the color and energy of life. Glass, at once translucent and reflective, contains t...

  "I've always been looking to be able to convey that feeling I had as a kid that there's just more to being a girl than people are saying," -- Peggy Reavey. In September 2025, Peggy participated in AGCC’s Call Freedom: Artists Speak , a group exhibition exploring the theme of freedom at Range Projects Gallery in Los Angeles.  Now, Peggy has an upcoming, one woman show titled: “GYRLE: paintings by...

Eric's early years ended up being very influential to his career and we begin there because, not only did he suggest it, but the specific experiences he cited, and which we discuss, map his trajectory toward the language that speaks through his works today.  Eric attended LA Valley College in San Fernando Valley, where he met Fidel Danieli, an early writer for Artforum magazine. Danieli became an...

  The Cold War Truth Commission was a day of online lectures and discussion in 2021, in essence it was a trial about the origins of the Cold War, and the millions of human lives it took, mainly from US invasions and proxy wars. Sponsoring organizations included Witness for Peace Southwest, School of the Americas Watch, Code Pink, KPFK Radio, Project Censored and others.  Compiled from that webinar...

Cora is a psychotherapist and an artist. She has been practicing art psychotherapy since graduating from Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in 2005. She obtained her California Marriage and Family Therapist license and Art Therapy Registration in 2010. She opened her private practice in 2010, and received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Psy. D) in 2018. In 2006, she and her husband Ray opened...

Peggy’s art is generated out of the site of her home studio at Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes, California where she has resided since 1996. Her practice has incorporated sculpture, mixed media, drawing, painting, and assemblage across figuration and abstraction. Peggy’s body of work utilizes equestrian and architectural motifs as embodiments of memory and lived experience.  Peggy has had r...

In 2014, Kristine founded Shoebox Arts, aimed at helping artists gain a presence in the art world. In 2018 she founded the nonprofit January Arts which officially became the publisher of her art magazine Art and Cake in 2024. Kristine runs an alternative art space, Shoebox Projects at the Brewery art colony, and is an Art Activator for the organization Artists Thrive. Her mission is to create comm...

  A Red Cantaloupe Experience will return to Roscoe’s on Sunday, Nov. 24 to present “The Music — The Magic” in celebration of two great musical legends, George Duke and Al Jarreau. The great news is the Knick Smith Quartet is on the bill again for November. The LA based band features Rickey Woodard- sax/flute, Edwin Livingston - acoustic and electric bass, Marvin “Smitty” Smith - drums, Knick Smit...

Join us in discussion with Artist/Photographer Reidar Schopp, about two very special Photography Series, Shibari (Japanese Rope Bondage) his Boxed Series and the LB Shibari Dojo.  Reidar takes inspiration from photographer William Mortensen, 1897-1965, who Ansel Adams called the Antichrist. On Mortensen, Reidar wrote; “His imagery was the first to stop me in my tracks. I loved the dark undertones,...

Evelyn had been talking about writing this book for some time with her publishers. Trying to write a biography of a person who's still alive is never easy, especially for such a vaulted figure as Joan Didion.   After her death, the book had a context of also trying to explain Didion's legacy in the wake of many articles that came out on Didion. Evelyn wrote this book because there was so much inte...

  The son of United Nations diplomats, Artist Javier Proenza grew up in the global foreign service networks of Washington DC, San Jose, Costa Rica and Rome, Italy. While Rome nurtured his interest in art, history and global politics, his high school and college years in Miami are when he reached his final form of Florida Man.  His conceptual art practice is centered on the universal absurdities of...

This site hosts audio only.  To see the video of this special episode, please go to, https://youtu.be/8NdUlrhpjHk Marie is an internationally exhibited painter. Her oil paintings address the tension of urban landscape and the natural world. Inspired by frequent walks through various trails and open spaces in California, her work reveals her observations of the changes and dynamics of nature in the...

  Breeze Smith plays drums, percussion and creates electronic live-looping. An improvisational drummer, instrument designer/builder, visual artist/designer and sound sculptor, he has completed several commissions for sculptures, paintings, designs and soundtracks.  His growing interest in experimental/improvised music and his ever-expanding search for new sounds led him to incorporate his metal so...

 In this episode, Steven noted what Pathos Press can offer LA authors who might think to query them, along with some (not all) indie publishers: "Small publishing houses tend to be much more willing to consider challenging or experimental works, especially by new authors without an established reputation. Some indie publishers assign editors to their authors in order to ensure the quality of the f...

In May, 2022, when the SCOTUS leak threatened to overturn Roe v Wade and strip half the country of their reproductive right protections, Pamela quit her corporate sales job and embarked from her California bubble to Red states to capture the harrowing and mundane stories of American women. The resulting documentary, WE’RE NOT GOING BACK! won the Grand Jury award for Emerging Filmmaker when it prem...

In this episode, hear about why COLLAGE became a nonprofit as opposed to simply a venue and the good work its doing to help students in the Los Angeles region.         "I have a sense that music can give people a reason to live, a reason to stay alive. So, rather than just run shows, I want to do something more than that," — Richard Foss. COLLAGE is a beautiful venue, built in the 1930's, featurin...

Jorge posits that publishing houses used to be vanguards. But now, they instead follow the trends that the social landscape we live in wants them to.   Listen in as we discuss this, Jorges new book and his creative process, advice for young writers and the beauty of the small press. Jorge is also co-owner. along with his wife Alejandra Menduina, of Menduina Schneider Gallery in San Pedro, Californ...

Mario Ybarra Jr. is a Mexican-American, a conceptual artist born and raised in Los Angeles. His artwork operates as examinations of excluded social norms, often examining complete environments, histories, and narratives. He received an MFA from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. He has been featured in many local, national, and international exhibiti...

Matthew was born and raised in Los Angeles and has been in the entertainment business for most of his adult life — first in music and then as an award-winning writer/director. During the pandemic, he returned to school to obtain a Master's degree in Public Administration so that he could have more of an impact in helping to create communities that work for everyone. His course of study involved a...

Between 1964 and 1966, Stearns served in Vietnam and Japan as a photographer while on active duty in the U.S. Navy. Following his time in the service, he was a partner in a ceramics studio, Opus ll, where he taught ceramics as well as drawing and painting. Stearns was a fire captain and paramedic with the Los Angeles County Fire Department from 1967 to 1988 and was a consultant on the television s...

Lia also known as "Doña Junta" is a former graffiti artist turned street archivist. Doña Junta runs the social media page swapmeet_chronicles which started off as an idea to highlight every day cultural happenings growing up in a Mexican household. The concept developed into a blog in 2007 in which Doña Junta documented the streets of Los Angeles from graffiti, personal stories, events, abandoned...

Daughters Of Smoke And Fire gives voice to human struggles and issues of justice and inequity that we’re seeing with increased frequency across the globe. Ava's message is, " a victory for women in Iran is really a victory for women everywhere.'" This message is expressed in an essay Ava wrote in December 2022 for, “Journal of Critical Race Inquiry” an open-access electronic journal that advances...

What is remarkable about Karina is her independent spirit, which has served as her guide both in her career decisions and in how she relates to and emboldens those around her. Soulspired, released in September, is inspired by COVID times, grief, love and new beginnings. Karina has said her aim is to share a message of renewal and hope — and to remind her listeners how important our lives are, how...

Elana Mann has presented her work in museums, galleries, and public spaces in the U.S. and globally.  She has received numerous awards, including an International Artist-In-Residence at Artpace San Antonio, the California Community Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award, the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, and she was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Pitzer...