ACLB Events


Open Conversations: Professional Artist Fellows

Open Conversations: Professional Artist Fellows

 Join us for an afternoon celebrating the 2023 Professional Artist Fellows in the closing of “Energy in Motion”, the 2023 Professional Artist Fellowship exhibition, along with welcoming the incoming 2024 Operating I & II grantees, Community Project grantees,...
Getty 25 x Arts Council for Long Beach

Getty 25 x Arts Council for Long Beach

In celebration of the Getty Center’s 25th Anniversary, J. Paul Getty Trust is partnering up with neighborhoods across Los Angeles to produce ten bespoke community-centric festivals that embrace the local community and showcase Getty-inspired programming. The objective...
Open Conversations: Parks and Records

Open Conversations: Parks and Records

The Arts Council will be hosting Open Conversations with Brent Dennis, Director of Parks, Recreation and Marine and VIP Records. Open Conversations will take at the East Village Arts Park from Noon to 6 pm, during the LB Artwalk.
Create Your Own Container Project

Create Your Own Container Project

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...
Interns in the Arts Luncheon Canceled

Interns in the Arts Luncheon Canceled

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...
Open Conversations 2021 Strategic Plan

Open Conversations 2021 Strategic Plan

The Arts Council wants to hear from residents about their thoughts and visions for the future of arts and culture in Long Beach. We have embarked on a planning process that is informed by public input and will determine our work over a 5 year period, starting in 2021....
Open Conversations 2021

Open Conversations 2021

The Arts Council for Long Beach wants to hear from residents about their thoughts and visions for the future of arts and culture in Long Beach. We have embarked on a planning process that is informed by public input and will determine our work over a 5 year period,...
DETERMINATION LB Mural Dedication

DETERMINATION LB Mural Dedication

Join us for the mural dedication of DETERMINATION LB a mural project with artist David Velasquez “Big Sleeps.” The Arts Council for Long Beach has partnered with artist David Velasquez “Big Sleeps,” Long Beach Transit and Centro Cha for DETERMINATION LB, a mural...
Figurative Encounters – Opening Reception

Figurative Encounters – Opening Reception

Join us at the Art@Work pop-up gallery space in Long Beach for the opening reception of Figurative Encounters, showcasing the work of Long Beach-based artist Virginia Broersma and AGCC studio artist Anna Erneholm. In Broersma’s paintings, limbs, crevices, rolls, and...
Port of Long Beach PHOTO Gallery Pop-Up

Port of Long Beach PHOTO Gallery Pop-Up

On Saturday, December 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. photographs from the 2019 PHOTO PROGRAM will be on view during the December LB Art Walk. The Port of Long Beach is more than an economic engine – it can be a source of surprising beauty and a feast for the creative eye. The...
UNFILTERED Finalists’ Reception

UNFILTERED Finalists’ Reception

Downtown Long Beach Alliance has partnered with the Arts Council for Long Beach for the 3rd Annual Unfiltered Photography Contest to celebrate Arts Month through the launch of #DTLBUNFILTERED. This signature art program invites the community and visitors to the...
Senator Gonzalez’ Dia de los Muertos Pop-Up

Senator Gonzalez’ Dia de los Muertos Pop-Up

The Arts Council for Long Beach will be at State Senator Lena Gonzalez’ Dia de los Muertos Pop-up event this Friday. We will be paying our respects and honoring two artists lost this year: Toko Tasi and Katie Phillips. Please join us as we remember their work in...
Knotted Dimensions Opening Reception

Knotted Dimensions Opening Reception

Art@Work’s fourth rotation, Knotted Dimensions, will showcase Long Beach based artist Katie Stubblefield and San Pedro artist Nancy Voegeli-Curran. IDEA’s beautiful office space sets the location for Stubblefield and Voegeli-Curran’s paintings and wall sculptures that...