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...
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....
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...
Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For June, in celebration of PRIDE month, we are featuring artist, Victor Yates. Victor is a black queer multidisciplinary artist in Los Angeles whose work focuses on place. His literary work...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mayor Robert Garcia proposed a new plan that would provide emergency financial support to artists who have been financially impacted by closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We know that the arts have been one of the areas hardest hit by the pandemic,” said Mayor...
**Update** The Covid Relief Fund has been exhausted. We are no longer able to accept applications. Please follow us on social media for the latest information. Facebook Twitter Instagram The City of Long Beach has dedicated additional $75,000 of Covid-19 Relief...
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...
Our team here at Arts Council for Long Beach is so excited to tell you about Long Beach Gives! We know many of you helped last year by making a gift. Thank you so much for your support! Some of you participated by giving a gift and by hosting and...
The The Arts Council for Long Beach has created a COVID-19 Relief Fund for Long Beach Artists. The fund has currently raised $42,000 with contributions from the Arts Council for Long Beach, Edison International, Long Beach Community Foundation and the Uplift LB...
Arts Council for Long Beach is excited to announce that we will be participating in the 2nd annual Long Beach Gives Day on September 24, 2020. We are setting our Long Beach Gives goal this year to $50,000!...
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...
We are witnessing the force of humanity’s ability to manifest both compassion and destruction simultaneously. Last week, a range of feelings and emotions exploded onto our national consciousness as a result of the murder of George Floyd. The Arts Council for Long...
On March 24, the Arts Council for Long Beach launched “Keep Arts Working”, a series of events and art commissions that seeks to illuminate the vital work being work amid the COVID-19 pandemic response, alleviate anxiety from our minds and bodies through the arts and...
On March 24, the Arts Council for Long Beach launches “Keep Arts Working”, a series of events and art commissions that seeks to illuminate the vital work being created amid the COVID-19 pandemic response, alleviate anxiety from our minds and bodies through the arts,...
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...
The Long Beach Public Library and the Arts Council for Long Beach are launching a new Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate (LBYPL) program to serve Long Beach youth with year-round literary arts, civic engagement and performance opportunities. “Adding to the incredible...
