Go Make Something: Working Through and Beyond the Convergence is led by artist and facilitator Jose Angel Castro. This unique program is both cathartic and productive because of its multifaceted approach. Go Make Something will include local creative interviews on...
“Bridging Wellness” is a series of community pop-ups generously supported by WE RISE LA and Arts Council for Long Beach. “Bridging Wellness” is a collaborative effort with partners Angels Gate Cultural Center, Compound LB, 10 other organizations and numerous...
This week we are excited to feature Cielo Roth as this week’s Port PHOTO Alumni feature! Cielo is an artist, a mother and a wife. She remains positive, vibrant, and energetic. While she is drawn to industrial shapes, the portrait feeds her soul and provides...
We are excited to highlight Angela Valley as this week’s Port PHOTO Alumni feature! Angela is a real estate photographer, videographer, and licensed drone pilot. She finds inspiration in symmetry, dawn and twilight, as well as our beautiful city of Long Beach, CA. She...
This week we are excited to put the spotlight on Raquel Landworth-Kleinhenz as our Port PHOTO Alumni feature! Raquel is a local artist who specializes in portrait, event, and fine art photography. Her talent is capturing unique moments of human interaction and...
This week we are excited to highlight Joe Trevino as our Port PHOTO Alumni feature! When Joe isn’t teaching math, they’re out capturing life with their camera as “life is so precious since we will never experience a moment twice, exactly how it was in the past.”...
The Port of Long Beach and the Arts Council for Long Beach launched Create Your Own Container, a Do-It-Yourself container project designed by local artist and designer Nick Zegel. You can watch the tutorial video for step-by-step details and...
Join us for our virtural State of the Arts 2021, Presented in partnership with the Port of Long Beach. Arts Council for Long Beach “2021 State of the Arts” No...
This week we are featuring Vincent Mattina (@vincentmattina) as our Port PHOTO Alumni feature! Vincent is a multidisciplinary artist who also is an accomplished digital photographer. His richly detailed work transports you to an alternate reality where science,...
The City of Long Beach’s Development Services Department has partnered with the Arts Council for Long Beach to deliver phase three of the Artist COVID Relief Grant. This grant program is for individual artists across disciplines who are struggling to have their basic...
A new pandemic-themed art exhibit has been unveiled at Long Beach Airport (LGB). The exhibition by local women artists, commissioned by a partnership between the airport and the Arts Council for Long Beach (ARTSLB), reflects uplifting and hopeful messages...
This week we are featuring Cindy Chow as our Port PHOTO Alumni feature! Cindy is a photographer based out of Los Angeles who is looking to spark your imagination through her surreal photographs, stunning landscapes, and luminescent night photography. The mundanity of...
We are happy to announce that this week’s Port PHOTO Alumni feature is Jose Cordon! Jose is a street photographer based out of Long Beach, CA honing on industrialism and the makeup of the city for the foundations of his projects. Chance plays an important role in...
This week we’re showcasing Aydin T. Palabiyikoglu and his work as our Port PHOTO Alumni feature! Aydin has worked as a journalist, photographer, designer and cinematographer for more than 20 years while being a father for seven years. During the past two decades,...
To celebrate Black History Month, the Arts Council for Long Beach has created phase two of our Art Kits, generously sponsored by the Port of Long Beach. In efforts to reach children at home to ensure arts education for students in Long Beach, Arts Council’s Eye on...
This week we’re featuring Long Beach resident Annie Banks one of our talented Port PHOTO Alumni who is a creative entrepreneur. Annie is an avid photographer that has a bachelors from Fresno State University and an AA in photography from Cosumnes River College...
Port PHOTO alumni Weldon Spurling says photography has been the medium in which he’s “viewed the world for the last 48 or so years, through marriage 6 beautiful children, two different professions, and many hospitalizations. It has been a shield in troubled times, a...
Christine Lee Smith is an award-winning portrait photographer and educator in Southern California. In 2020 she completed an MFA from Azusa Pacific University. In 2019, Christine was a finalist in the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Gallery award, and has exhibited...
While COVID-19 protocols have cancelled all gatherings and events, the Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King cannot be cancelled. In a creative pivot under the stress of COVID restrictions, DreamKreator Studio and the esteemed business development organization Leadership...
In collaboration with the Arts Council of Long Beach, the Port of Long Beach is proud to bring you PhotoWorks. This program is taking the place of the 2020 PhotoProgram, which has been reimagined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will consist of...
Passport to the Arts showcases the cultural and artistic traditions of prominent cultural groups in Long Beach. Learning about these groups fosters student tolerance and appreciation of cultural diversity. Long Beach third and fourth graders...
Internet and Computer Resources: Charter and Comcast free internet Free Chromebooks and Low cost internet for LBUSD Families Food Resources: LBUSD free meals during COVID-19 Quarantine Gus's Fried Chicken offering free lunches...
What has transpired in the last two weeks has made an enormous impact on our lives, yet I know that as an arts community we have great skill in redirecting, of changing the course so that our art can continue to grow. You are all doing great work to ensure the safety...
Arts Council for Long Beach feels it is important to let you know that your health and safety are top of mind amid concerns about the coronavirus. This morning the Arts Council received Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent press release regarding COVID-19. Mayor Robert...
The Arts Council for Long Beach is seeking up to 10 art/performance activations for the 2020 LB Art Walk. LOCATION: East Village Arts Park and Downtown East Village Long Beach (see map) EXHIBITION TIMELINE: May 2020 – December 2020 ELIGIBILITY: This opportunity is...