Go Make Something Kids!

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.

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Location: Amigos Auto Parts

Artist: Jose M. Loza

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Location: BO-beau kitchen + roof top

Artist: Brandie Davison

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Location: Ellie's

Artist: Rivvl Collective

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Location: Fingerprints Music

Artist: Angie & Eduardo Uno

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Location: Confidential Coffee

Artist: Juan Nambo, Maria, & Erica Elena Esquivel

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Location: Lupes De La Mar

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Artist: Hugo Lomeli

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Artist: Ricky Hernandez

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Artist: @animefan20134

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Artist: Hugo Lomeli

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Location: Kleur

Artist: Jamuna Priti

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Location: Kress Market

Artist: Alepsis Hernandez

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Artist: Mi'randa Villanueva

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Location: Amigos Auto Parts

Artist: Angel Muratalla

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Location: Romeo Chocolates

Artist: Bodeck Hernandez

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Location: Amigos Auto Parts

Artist: Ikons

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Location: Amigos Auto Parts

Artist: Hugo Lomeli

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Location: Amigos Auto Parts

Artist: Dustypepsi

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Location: Fingerprints Music

Artist: Rivvl Collective

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Location: V Burger

Artist: Tracy Negrete

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Location: V Burger

Artist: Jamuna Priti

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Location: Confidential Coffee

Artist: Nat Iosbaker

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Location: Confidential Coffee

Artist: Juan Nambo, Maria Fryer, & Erica Elena Esquivel

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Location: Common Grounds

Artist: Geezus

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Location: Churrino Gourmet Deserts

Artist: LaJon Miller

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Location: Kress Market

Artist: Juan Nambo, Maria Fryer, & Erica Elena Esquivel

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Location: ReCircle Home

Artist: Funtime Dan

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Location: Verde Salon

Artist: McBride Arts

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

Thank You to Our Sponsors

California Arts Council - ACLB