Angel City Culture Quest

In celebration of its 20th anniversary season, we'll look at the ways CalArts Center for New Performance - or CNP - has been an incubator for testing, developing and producing artistic projects, and what Travis calls a truly different paradigm for creating professional work.  And We'll speak with Octavio about Scene With Cranes and his process in writing it, including  the varied symbols that cran...

K Ryan Henisey brings years of experience in the arts and premium/luxury retail to fine art management and curation with Artlounge Collective. Ryan is an award-winning artist and recent recipient of a public arts grant from the city of West Hollywood. His fine art has appeared throughout California and in locations that include international galleries and museums. Ryan previously worked for major...

Hello everybody and welcome to ACCQ. Today we have an exciting show. We’re speaking with Holly M. Crawford, who is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Director of Adult Public Programs, Education & Public Programs    — But you will quickly discover why I call Holly M. LACMAs Director of Fun, Joy and Creativity. Today, we will discuss the projects Holly M. brings to the public at LACMA, in terms...

      What is the definition of a working artist?       Nancy is a poet, educator, and community organizer. She has co-founded a handful of arts organizations, including the Long Beach Literary Arts Center and briefly ran a social justice-based literary press.  As an organizer, she has produced innumerable arts events, including writing workshops, public readings and arts festivals. She is also th...

     Jana Opincariu is an award winning artist with paintings recognized across the southwest and paintings that have found their home around the globe. She creates surreal and fantastical images of human bodies, objects and animals. As a painter, she strives to exemplify what it means to become vulnerable and romanticize it. She does this by creating hyper-realistic portraits of people, creatures...

Pedro Kos  Co-Director His latest documentary feature film, REBEL HEARTS , which he directed, wrote and edited premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released worldwide by Discovery+ in summer of 2021.  Prior to that he wrote and produced a Netflix Original Documentary THE GREAT HACK by Jehane Noujaim  and Karim Amer which premiered at the 2019 Sun...

Today we are speaking with artist Jana Opincariu, who lives in San Pedro. I was introduced to Jana’s work in June of 2020, at her solo exhibition, Meditations in Solidarity , a collection of paintings created during the pandemic at Hellada Gallery in Long Beach. A striking exhibit, it featured works from Jana’s Black Series, her Beautiful Grotesque series and other works — all of which demanded un...

Terence Toy started spinning house tracks in the early 80s, back when the genre was progressing through major east coast cities with velocity. The late New York house DJ David Bryant was a mentor to Terence and turned him on to the deep, funky sound of the underground scene. Bryant’s perceptive advice to Terence was, “to be really successful in this business, these are the grooves to play.” Terenc...

The Dance Camera West Programming Committee is led by Cati Jean. The festival is produced by Amber Adams. The DCW Board of Directors is George Lugg (president), Lionel Popkin, David Rousseve, Sophie Robertson and Lynn Tejada.   Trailers:   DCWFF 2022 20th Anniversary Promo Trailer DCWFF 2022 TRAILER (Version 1)   Tickets and Program Information now available at  dancecamerawest.org  and on venue w...

Leah Shane Dixon, The Spaces In Between Shane Dixon is an artist in multiple media, whose diverse body of work explores fusion of oppositional polarities, transcendental themes, abstract symbolism, and humankind's unique role within the natural world.   A graduate of Pratt Institute and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Shane draws from their bi-coastal life experience, informed by...

Going back to 1991, when Ann Weber first started working in cardboard, she had been experimenting with many different materials because, after graduating from CA. College of Arts and Crafts, [now CA. College of the Arts] she said knew she wasn’t going to continue working in clay.  Ann came to school as a production potter, from the craft world. For 15 years she had a pottery studio/store in upstat...

So you can get to know Jai Hudson better, I’m going to share a few of his accomplishments. Jai was involved in studying philosophy under Professor Grimes at the Noetic Society He helped with Occupy LB, Occupy L.A. and Irvine and helped establish Black Lives Matter Long Beach.  He was the creative director for Community Consciousness .  He created an art collective called Of Royalty He created an a...

It's not really about the medium for Karena, she likes to work with different mixed media. But always resourceful, Karena says the best form of what she does is recycling - and the best form of recycling is reuse. "It's hard not to be impacted by the environment," Karena said.  One of her most recent works is titled Spoken Ice , linked below, a video project for soundpedro : an ear-oriented multi-...

Maria Kriya has been practicing yoga for 19 years. For her, yoga was a transformational tool for mental health and resilience. She began her career as a special needs teacher. Soon after, at 29, she started practicing yoga. Then she began to teach it, first to children and then adults. She didn’t have formal yoga training but she had been practicing for five years. Maria says that when she discove...

 As an arts journalist primarily, I connect communities to cultural events in their neighborhoods . Being a journalist requires a broad view and within that context, I have also written about subjects ranging from the environment and social justice to politics. We who are nourished by the arts need to take ourselves on regular culture quests. Each time I do, it grounds me and it opens my mind. AGC...