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City Announces Long Beach Creative Economy Grants Program
Includes upcoming grant opportunities for local arts, culture and history nonprofits, professional artists and cultural .
Arts Council for Long Beach and League of Women Voters to Host Mayoral Candidates Forum
The Arts Council for Long Beach and the League of Women Voters Long Beach will host a forum for candidates who are seeking the position of mayor of our city. The event will take place on May 7, 2022 at 10 AM to noon at the Museum of Latin American Art. Attendees will...
Summer Internships Available at the Arts Council!
The Arts Council has four exciting internship opportunities available: an Arts Learning Internship, Marketing Internship and Development Internship sponsored by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture...
Attend the LB Artwalk on Saturday, February 12
Come to the East Village for the LB Artwalk on Saturday, February 12 and enjoy local stores, vendors and live music.
NOTICE: PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR COUNTYWIDE CULTURAL POLICY STRATEGIES – JANUARY 3 – 31, 2022
Let your voice be heard! Now through January 31, 2022, the Department of Arts and Culture and Culture is seeking public comment on a draft set of Cultural Policy Strategy Proposals. The Countywide Cultural Policy has far-reaching potential to equitably...
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.
“Together We Make Change” — Washington Neighborhood Utility Box Project
The Arts Council for Long Beach (ArtsLB) and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (Habitat LA) have partnered on a utility box project in the Washington Neighborhood. Four artists have been selected by the community through a community voting process. Selected...
Call for Artists: LB Art Walk
We are looking for artists and collectives to participate as a pop-up vendor in the 2nd Saturday Art Walk October – December 2021.
Support the Arts Council for Long Beach for LB Gives
The Arts Council for Long Beach cultivates the physical, social, and economic characteristics of Long Beach neighborhoods by nurturing and enlivening the arts. We serve individuals, groups, and organizations through advocacy, arts education, public art, and...
Artist Registry Feature: Valerie J. Bower
Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the month of September, we are celebrating Latinx heritage and this week we are highlighting photographer Valerie J. Bower. Valerie J. Bower (b. 1986) is a Los Angeles based photographer....
Artist Registry Feature: ART REALM Collective
Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the month of August, we are celebrating socially engaged artists and this week we are highlighting art collective ART REALM Collective. ART REALM is a Long Beach based collective and...
Artist Registry Feature: Soul Cypher Collective
Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the month of August, we are celebrating socially engaged artists and this week we are highlighting art collective Soul Cypher Collective. Soul Cypher is a creative collective and...
Artist Registry Feature: Corie Mattie
Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the month of August, we are celebrating socially engaged artists and this week we are highlighting public artist Corie Mattie. Corie Mattie is an LA-based artist and muralist who...
Artist Registry Feature: Able Arts Work
Arts Council for Long Beach is featuring artists from our Artist Registry. For the month of August, we are celebrating socially engaged artists and this week we are highlighting fellow non-profit organization, Able Arts Work. The primary vision of Able ARTS Work is to...
Artist Registry Feature: Joshua McCall
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 Joshua McCall. Joshua McCall is a painter, graphic designer, clothing designer, but most...
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...
Port PHOTO Alumni Feature: Kevin Apodaca
We are excited to feature Kevin Apodaca as this week’s Port PHOTO alumni feature! Kevin does creative work for a living where most of the photography he’s done has been in a professional setting. He’s been able to photograph in unconventional locations such as machine...
Port PHOTO Alumni Feature: Gil Mares
Gil Mares is this weeks Port PHOTO alumni feature with some exciting abstract photography! Gil has been photographing for over 50 years. He looks for what is out in the open for all to see and attempts to compose the subject in a concise and balanced manner for all...
Port PHOTO Alumni Feature: Slobodan Dimitrov
We are excited to feature Slobodan Dimitrov as this week’s Port PHOTO Alumni feature! Slobodan’s photography documents cultural and occupational life. In many of his projects, he has found that in the minutia of everyday life there are elements of the...
Artist Registry Feature: Victor Yates
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...
Port PHOTO Alumni Feature: Lyn Watanabe
This week we are excited to feature Lyn Watanabe as this week’s Port PHOTO Alumni feature! Lyn’s love for photography started with an old film camera, black and white film and many hours in the darkroom. The camera became her visual journal, documenting her travels,...