Go Make Something Kids! is a youth-centered, creative arts program meant to engage and expose students to real-world learning while equipping them with tools, skills, and resources that are pivotal to their personal and professional growth and development.
In partnership with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD), the program offers in-school workshops where students explore different facets of artistic endeavor, including photography, poetry, painting, and creative entrepreneurship. Each student creates original works that are displayed in a culmination art exhibition. This is a unique opportunity for students to present their work in a professional art environment, and offers them an introduction to the vibrant arts community of Long Beach.
We are excited to present Long Beach, Unified, an art exhibition to be held on Saturday, April 8th from 1-3PM at the Long Beach Community College Art Gallery. Long Beach, Unified features original art works from Go Make Something Kids! participants who represent the Leadership Academies of Franklin, Hamilton, Hoover, Marshall, and Washington middle schools.
FREE RSVP
This program was sponsored with support from the Arts Council for Long Beach, the Port of Long Beach, the Miller Foundation, the California Arts Council, Long Beach City College, Bess J. Hodges Foundation, and the Rudolph and Daphne Munzer Foundation.
GO MAKE SOMETHING KIDS – Workshops
Play Nice Practice Program with Ryan Hoyle
Interactive course on skills and technologies related to creative entrepreneurship.
Testing ideas with successful entrepreneurs and creating individual business plans.
Importance of event production, screen printing, grant writing,
marketing/social media.
Experimental Photography with Rejeana Black
Oftentimes, we only associate photography with flat two-dimensional pictures.
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce students to methods that experiment with the processes of photography in a creative art form.Methods will include cyanotype, collage art, and sculptural photography.
Painting Curated by Brandie Davison
Explore the depths of your imagination while working with paint.
This will be a six week interactive creative course
taught by artists and muralists. All levels welcomed.
Featured Instructors:
Bodeck Luna
Photography Concepts with Weldon Spurling
There are photographs all around us shaping how we thing, who we are, there are also a world of photographs
inside you, come learn to express who you are through photographs, show the word who you are.
Go Make Something Cohort Fellows
Rejeana Black
Jose Angel Castro
Brandie Davison
Ryan Hoyle
Weldon Spurling
Civic Uprising
Go Make Something Kids! was born out of the original Go Make Something program which emerged out of the convergence of crises that occurred from 2020-2021. Go Make Something was a series of IG Live Events and Workshops centered around coping with difficult times through mindful creativity. Go Make Something Kids! was brought about to foster resiliency in our youth through artistic expression.
The Public Art below pays homage to the original program and the artists whose work documented a historical tide of events.
During the stay at home orders and after the murder of Black lives including that of George Floyd’s as a result of white supremacy and police brutality, artists took to the streets to translate what was collectively felt, not only in Long Beach but globally. This is a virtual collection of the few store-front murals the Arts Council and Downtown Long Beach Alliance had the ability to gather and save from all over the City of Long Beach.
Location: Amigos Auto Parts
Artist: Jose M. Loza
Location: Amigos Auto Parts
Artist: Angel Muratalla
Location: Romeo Chocolates
Artist: Bodeck Hernandez
Artist: Mi'randa Villanueva
Location: Verde Salon
Artist: McBride Arts
Location: Kress Market
Artist: Alepsis Hernandez
Location: ReCircle Home
Artist: Funtime Dan
Location: Kleur
Artist: Jamuna Priti
Location: Kress Market
Artist: Juan Nambo, Maria Fryer, & Erica Elena Esquivel
Artist: Hugo Lomeli
Location: Churrino Gourmet Deserts
Artist: LaJon Miller
Artist: @animefan20134
Location: Common Grounds
Artist: Geezus
Location: Confidential Coffee
Artist: Juan Nambo, Maria Fryer, & Erica Elena Esquivel
Artist: Ricky Hernandez
Location: Confidential Coffee
Artist: Nat Iosbaker
Artist: Hugo Lomeli
Location: V Burger
Artist: Jamuna Priti
Location: Lupes De La Mar
Location: V Burger
Artist: Tracy Negrete
Location: Confidential Coffee
Artist: Juan Nambo, Maria, & Erica Elena Esquivel
Location: Fingerprints Music
Artist: Rivvl Collective
Location: Fingerprints Music
Artist: Angie & Eduardo Uno
Location: Amigos Auto Parts
Artist: Dustypepsi
Location: Ellie's
Artist: Rivvl Collective
Location: Amigos Auto Parts
Artist: Hugo Lomeli
Location: BO-beau kitchen + roof top
Artist: Brandie Davison
Location: Amigos Auto Parts
Artist: Ikons
If your storefront mural work is featured, contact us ASAP to further update the information in these public art listings and to discuss future projects. If you created a storefront mural artwork, and it is missing in this collection use this form to add it as a listing on our website.
Please contact us if you would like us to remove your artwork from this collection or if you would like to retrieve your artwork.
Contact us for this project at publicart@artslb.org
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