Artist Registry Feature: Laura Vena

Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the month of July, we are celebrating our BIPOC artists and this week we are highlighting Laura Vena. Laura Vena is a writer, teacher, translator, artist, animal activist, editor, and...

Artist Registry Feature: Amy Solis

Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the month of July, we are celebrating our BIPOC artists and this week we are highlighting Amy Solis. Amy Solis is an undocumented, queer, jewelry maker and activist born in Quinto, Ecuador....

Artist Registry Feature: MIRRORED FATALITY

Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the beginning of July, we are celebrating our BIPOC artists starting with performance art duo, Mirrored Fatality. As a nonbinary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim performance art...

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🗣 CALLING ALL BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS & WRITERS! Ar

🗣 CALLING ALL BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS & WRITERS! ArtsLB is seeking photo and writing submissions from Black artists! Selected submitted works will be considered for a book publishing later this year to document this historical period. Each selected artwork will be digitally reproduced while some will be chosen for book publication. Link in bio! English & Spanish information on the following slides. #artslb #gomakesomething #opencall #photography #writing 🗣
📸: @weldonspurlingphoto

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🗣 CALL TO THE PUBLIC! ArtsLB is gathering testimonials from the public regarding their experiences through the pandemic and civic uprisings that have happened within the past 2 years. These testimonials will be published in a book alongside the murals that were created in response to these events. This is open to ALL AGES, IDENTITIES, & ABILITIES. English & Spanish information on the following slides. Link in bio! #artslb #gomakesomething #opencall #testimonials 🗣
📸: @deadendbrigade @lbgramers

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Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the month of July, we are celebrating our BIPOC artists and this week we are highlighting Laura Vena.

Laura Vena is a writer, teacher, translator, artist, animal activist, editor, and curator whose work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Super Arrow, Tarpaulin Sky, In Posse Review, The Dirty Fabulous, Antennae and elsewhere. She is the recent winner of the 1913 Press First Book Prize by John Keene for her manuscript, x/she: stardraped. Laura holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Critical Studies from CalArts and is interested in works of a fantastic nature and those that investigate the ethical and aesthetic considerations of representation. Laura is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Two If By Sea Press, Fiction Editor at Entropy Magazine, and Founder and Creative Director of Blockhead Brigade, an organization that seeks to help Pit Bull type dogs & their families in need (www.blockheadbrigade.org).

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Website: https://www.lauravena.com/

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Instagram: @laura.vena

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