Spring 2004

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Spring 2004

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE CALARTS COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIP { CAP }
Message from the Director
Curator Cecil Fergerson, paraphrasing a popular Motown song,
defines cultures as “the way we do the things we do.” This
definition of culture can be embraced as it is both accessible and
comprehensive. Culture is our legacy and has the ability to unify,
to promote understanding and connectivity, and to provide
meaning and purpose to our lives.
As Paul Cummins writes in his article Our Ground Time Here Will
Be Brief, “The country is starved for meaning, even as it
eliminates the very means whereby it might find that meaning.”
The CalArts Community Arts Partnership has been, for the past
fourteen years, dedicated to the notion that the arts provide this
purpose and meaning in our lives. For young people, the arts
belong embedded in the foundation of education, with artists
central to this education. For CalArts students and faculty, CAP
programs provide a laboratory environment to test and refine
approaches to creating innovative arts curricula, rich with
concepts and content. The CAP program has also become an
arena at CalArts where interdisciplinarity can be utilized and
incorporated by students and faculty alike.
Throughout its existence, CAP has been engaged in strengthening
its pedagogical approach to enable the youth of Los Angeles to
give power to their voices and to consider and access higher
education. And through engaging with the CAP program, CalArts
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students can directly experience what it means to be part of a
community — something many people in urban environments
have yet to encounter. Art making practice is then seen as an
inclusive, important and accessible component in the education
of young people.
To eliminate the arts in the education of our children is criminal,
and contributes to the decimation of our culture, our legacy. In
a time in history when we have exchanged peace for war, civil
rights for homeland security, protest for patriotism, books for
television and video games, and education for test results, there
is no greater nor more important gift we can give to the youth
of our country than the ability to create, to question and to
critique the culture of our time.
GLENNA AVILA Director, Community Arts Partnership
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CAP Forms New Partnership with the City
of Santa Clarita and Local School Districts
Mayor James Hahn Visits CAPS’s Sony Pictures
Media Arts Program at the Watts Towers Arts Center
Community Arts Partnership CAP:
The Art of Education
Empowerment and Reciprocity:
Art Practice as Social Practice
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief
Cultural Bridges
CAP Hires Former Youth Participants
and CalArts Alumni
CAP Collaborates with the LA Philharmonic
CAP Alumna Starts Latino Student Union at CalArts
New CAP Faculty
Janice Pober Wins CAP Award
CAP’s Sony Pictures Media Arts Program
Adds Fifth Site: San Fernando Gardens Community
Service Center
CAP’s ArtsCOOL Program Expands
Digital Cookbook Website
Calendar of CAP EVENTS and EXHIBITIONS
2003-2004 ARTS PROGRAMS FOR TEENAGERS
COLLABORATING PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
Mayor James Hahn Visits CAP’s
Sony Pictures Media Arts Program
at the Watts Towers Arts Center
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn attended CAP’s Sony Pictures
Media Arts Program at the Watts Towers Arts Center on January
21, 2004.This program is offered free-of-charge to middle
school students after school at five locations throughout
the City of Los Angeles and is sponsored by Sony Pictures
Entertainment and the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Department.Students ages 10 to 14 years can learn life drawing,
design, color, animation and media technology in two 3-hour
classes per week for thirty weeks per year.Mayor Hahn had a
chance to meet with some of the youth participants, view their
art work and animation, and hear about the program from
students and instructors.
and the California Institute of the Arts Community Arts Partnership,
and looks forward to our continued collaboration as we work
to expand this important program to other areas of the city.”
“We are thrilled to help nurture the next generation of artists in
our community with our partners, the City of Los Angeles and
CalArts,” said Beth Berke, Executive Vice President and Chief
Administrative Officer, Sony Pictures Entertainment.“We cannot
underestimate the value of an arts education to the individual
and to our industry.”
“Initiatives such as the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program
provide students with a safe environment in the crucial hours
after school to explore their creativity, tap into their potential,
and expand their dreams,” said Mayor Hahn.“Programs like
these are an important example of what can be achieved when
the private and public sectors work together to ensure that the
future is brighter for the children of Los Angeles.”
“The CalArts Community Arts Partnership is inspired by the
engaging and imaginative art work produced by the youth
participants in the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, which is
due in large part to the creative expertise of our CalArts faculty
and student instructors,” said Director of CalArts Community
Arts Partnership, Glenna Avila.“We are very pleased with the
ongoing success of our partnership with the City of Los Angeles
Cultural Affairs Department and Sony Pictures Entertainment,
and the results we are achieving towards training the next
generation of young artists and civic participants.”
“The Sony Pictures Media Arts Program is an excellent example
of the public and private sectors joining forces to provide highquality media arts education to the children and youth of Los
Angeles,” said Margie Reese, General Manager of the Cultural
Affairs Department.“The Cultural Affairs Department gratefully
acknowledges the contributions of Sony Pictures Entertainment
SPMAP workshops are offered twice-a-week at Banning’s
Landing Community Center in Wilmington, Center for the
Arts Eagle Rock in Northeast Los Angeles, San Fernando
Gardens Community Service Center in Pacoima, Watts Towers
Arts Center in Watts, and the William Reagh Los Angeles
Photography Center near McArthur Park.
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I moved to Southern California from the UK
j ust over two years ago. Much of the world thinks of Southern
California as a dynamic center of human creativity. Moving to
live in California, it comes as a cold shock to find that
creativity is in deep trouble here, in the very place where it
should be thriving – in the education of children and young
people. The arts in particular are in very bad shape in many
schools and this turns out to be true of much of the United
States. The deep irony is that now, more than ever, America
urgently needs the kind of education the arts make possible.
Let me say why this is and why the work of the Community
Arts Partnership is so significant.
public education. This is a massive investment.
There are two fundamental reasons why the arts are so low
down the food chain in America’s schools. First, many policy
something of the achievements, values and
makers seem to believe that arts education is not relevant to
jobs and the economy: that working in the arts in school will
not help young people find work when they leave school.
People who believe this are wrong and later on I’ll say why.
But the fact that so many people do believe this is a major
problem for the arts in education. Second, many people
assume that the only purpose of schools is to promote high
academic achievement and that the arts are not relevant to
doing that either. People who think this are also wrong – on
both counts. Again, I’ll say why in a minute. But in order to
prove them wrong, some advocates argue vigorously that arts
education does improve academic scores and they quote
many studies that seem to show this.
Community
Arts Partnership
CAP:
“The
I respect these ‘transfer’ arguments, as they’re known.
They’re an essential part of the effort to put the arts at the
heart of education. But they’re not the whole case for the arts
and in my view they’re not the most important part of it. The
real challenge for arts educators is not only to prove that the
arts promote traditional academic achievement. It’s to show
that the whole idea of academic achievement that dominates
American education is now preventing schools from
providing the kind of education that all students, and the
country, desperately need.
Art of ”
Education
SIR KEN ROBINSON
Author and Speaker on Education and CAP Visiting Committee Member
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader
in the development of creativity, innovation and human
resources. He is currently Senior Advisor to the J Paul
Getty Trust in Los Angeles. He was previously Professor of
Education at Warwick University in the UK and is now
Professor Emeritus. In June 2003 he was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II for his outstanding achievements as a
leader, writer and speaker in creativity, the arts and
education. His latest book is Out of Our Minds:
Learning to be Creative
(Wiley-Capstone) Professor
Howard Gardner calls it ‘the best analysis I've seen of the
disjunction between the kinds of intelligence that we have
traditionally honored in schools and the kinds of creativity
that we need today in our organizations and our society.’
Sir Ken speaks to audiences throughout the world on the
changing needs of business, education and organizations in
the new global economies. In 2001 he was voted SfB Business
Speaker of the Year by over 200 European companies.
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America currently spends $500 billion a year on
What’s it all for? One of the fundamental purposes
of general education is personal. Education should
help all students to learn about their own unique
capabilities as individuals, and to begin to fulfill
them. In America this is conceived as a fundamental
democratic right. A second purpose is cultural.
Education should help students understand
aspirations of other people, of other times and of
the wider world around them. A third purpose is
economic. Education must give students the basic
skills and knowledge they need to make a living
and for the economy to prosper. Just what those
‘basics’ are now is a critical issue for the future
of education, and I’ll come back to it. These three
purposes, personal, cultural and economic, are
intimately related. As well as preparing them to
make a living, education should enable students
to lead lives that have personal meaning and
constructive purposes in society as a whole. Given
the growing complexities of life in the 21st century,
this is an increasingly sophisticated challenge.
The arts have vital roles in each of these areas
of education: not optional — vital.
The arts are vital to personal development because
they give access to the extraordinary diversity
of ways of thinking that characterize human
intelligence. I suggested that the preoccupation
with academic achievement is a threat to the future
of education. Let me say why. Academic ability
is very important but it is only part of the complex
matrix of human intelligence. Academic education
focuses especially on certain types of analytical
thinking, especially through words and numbers.
This is obviously important but there is much
more to human intelligence than academic ability
and much more to education than developing it.
The fact is that we think about the world in all the different
ways we experience it. We think visually, in sound, in
movement, in touch and in other abstract forms as well
as in numbers and words. If intelligence were limited to
academic ability, most human achievements would not
have happened: there would be no music, poetry, art,
dance, technology, architecture, design, theatre, business,
love, feelings or many other features of human culture. If
education really is to be a process of personal development
it has to develop all aspects of students’ abilities including
those that are most vividly expressed in the arts.
There’s another aspect to this. The task of education, it’s
been rightly said, is not to fill empty vessels, but to light
fires. As human beings we all think, feel and communicate
in all the ways I’ve suggested. But we each have our own
individual strengths and preferred ways of thinking: our own
learning styles. Some students flourish through academic
styles of learning. Others don’t. Some think best in words
and numbers, some don’t. Some are more visual, or musical
in their approaches to learning. Many highly able students
are alienated from education by the dominant routines of
academic tasks and the insistent beat of standardized
tests. Understanding how individual students learn best
is the best way to ignite their passion for education.
Arguments about transfer are important, but they’re not
enough. The importance of the arts in education is not
only in promoting conventional academic achievement
but in the distinctive achievements they promote in
themselves. In my experience – and that of very many
others – there is also a transfer effect. Systematic
research hasn’t yet proven that arts education raises other
standards in education. But experience suggests that when
students find something they’re good at in school, they
become more motivated and confident in education
overall and tend to get better at other things too.
Experience also argues that, properly taught, ideas and
skills in one field can affect achievements in others.
I don’t find this surprising. After all, the human brain is
not made of discrete compartments. It is highly dynamic
and interactive. The essence of creative intelligence is in
making connections. Mathematicians often think visually,
dancers think mathematically and so on. For me, the
surprise is not that there might be connections between
different areas of intelligence and achievement, but that
anyone thought there wouldn’t be. For all of these reasons,
the arts should be at the heart of personal education.
The arts are also central to cultural education. Individuals
don’t live in a vacuum: they grow and develop in groups
and communities of other people, whose ideas and
behaviors deeply affect and influence each other. Different
cultural communities are defined by their distinctive
values and ideas, beliefs and ways of being together.
These are often most deeply expressed in the arts – in their
music, poetry, images, stories, rhythms and dance. A
balanced arts education works in two ways. It enables
young people to formulate and express their own ideas and
feelings through their own unique work. It also engages
them in other people’s work in the arts and the ideas,
feelings and perceptions they present. Properly done, there
is a dynamic interplay between these processes: each
deepening the quality of the other. In these ways, learning
through the arts is also a powerful process of promoting
cultural literacy and understanding.
Arts education also has vital roles in the economic functions
of education. This is true in two ways. In the post industrial
economies, more and more people are making their living
in areas that depend directly on the arts: in music, film,
design, advertising, software development, publishing, fashion
and many related fields. The so-called creative industries
are now a major force in the US economy. But this is not all.
The extraordinary rates of change in technology call for new
skills – new basics – in all areas of the economy. Corporate
leaders throughout America are emphasizing that national
economic success now depends more than ever before on
creativity, innovation and imagination: that success in
business depends increasingly on the ability to communicate
with other people, to express feelings and to engage with
other people’s values and perspectives. A well-founded
arts education teaches all of these ‘basics’.
These benefits are not automatic. These partnerships need
to be carefully planned and sensitively practiced. Being
a good artist doesn’t make someone a good teacher. And
artists are not simply substitute teachers. Their work has
to be complementary to the teachers, not a replacement
for it. All of this needs training, and that’s one of the
challenges for the future. At present, just as few teachers
are trained to work in the arts, few artists are trained to
work in education.
The programs of many arts training institutions are rooted
in outdated ideas of the lives that many artists really lead.
They focus on developing the artist’s ‘voice’ and technique,
but give little attention to the sorts of careers they actually
have after graduation. For many artists, these are portfolio
careers. According to their disciplines, they may work on
their own at times on personal projects; they may also
collaborate with others on joint projects, sometimes in
community settings, sometimes commercially. Many also
work in education when they can. Normally they have no
training to do this and their alma maters did little to make
them aware of the opportunities in education or to prepare
them to take them.
INSIDE
Improving academic scores in itself will not help education
meet the extraordinary challenges it now faces. For that to
happen, education has to give an equal place to the arts in
their own right for the distinctive achievements they promote
in themselves. Where does the Community Arts
Partnership fit into this?
Artists of all sorts have crucial roles to play in improving
the quality of arts education and so do institutions like
CalArts. Teaching the arts is an expert process. Given the
run-down of the arts in the public school system, many
teachers have not been trained in any significant way to
teach the arts and there is little professional support for
those who would like to learn.
On the other hand, there are many artists whose skills,
knowledge and passion for their disciplines can be
tremendous resources for schools in planning and providing
arts programs. CAP has supported many such partnerships
and the evidence is that everyone wins. Teachers can gain
new skills, understanding and enthusiasm in the arts from
working alongside artists, and many ideas for future
development. Even a short, well-planned program can
provide energy and materials for weeks of follow-up work.
Students are inspired by the personal experiences of
working with people who have given their lives to the
practice of the arts and have a passion for sharing their
vision and ideas. Artists benefit professionally too.
They gain from the skills and experience of teachers in
the classroom and studio and through the delight and
achievements of the students they work with. They usually
find this work artistically rewarding too, as a rich mine
of ideas for their own work and practice.
THAT FIRE
CalArts is an important example of alternative approaches.
CAP provides for dynamic partnerships between CalArts,
schools, and communities: between artists, teachers and
students. In doing this, it provides an important role model
for new forms of collaboration in education. Given the
many challenges they face, few schools can provide on
their own for the full range of educational opportunities
that students now need. In the future, they shouldn’t be
working in isolation, but should see themselves as hubs of
educational development, drawing on expertise from many
sources including training and cultural organizations.
In many parts of the world, there are initiatives that aim to
put the arts back in the center of education and put artists
in the center of the arts curriculum. These strategies are
important not only because they enhance traditional
academic achievement, but also because they bring to
schools a broader and more relevant form of education
than they can provide on their own. The arts in their own
right are essential to education and increasingly programs
like CAP are proving themselves to be essential to the
quality of education in the arts.
Mr. Whitataker’s office room 17,
where relentless letters
framed, precise.
eating Doritos
Mr. Whitataker smiles,
he shrinks into his desk
made with the emptiness
He shows Mama a file
immaculate, stiff.
I pulse staring at the blue ink
It smears on the white paper
She excuses herself
I wonder what should I do
that Mr. Whitataker
Slowly I crumble it, unfold it,
among my dreams,
of a colorful origami
that cuts
of Mr. Whitataker’s
could have been forgotten
didn’t print the picture
baby gown-her bare toes showing.
staring into the camera crying.
She plays with us sometimes.
and I were the only ones in
with her dolls on her bed
Lucy. I didn’t pay attention, at first
against the screen gave it away.
My grandfather was visiting us
in the apartment building
Kathy ran to hide under
by the neck. Kathy! I yelled at her.
as glass began to break. It’s funny
9:00 o’clock Tuesday morning
cover the walls safely
My sister and I keep busy
our fingers turning orange Papaya
a grown man in a suit
with a lamplight of honey
of his neatness.
with my name written on it,
mama uses to sign Agreement.
blotting a dark spot.
tracing a diagonal X
with the blank paper
gives me to draw.
deciphering
the wrinkles
Achilles sword
inside the walls
throat.
if only the LA Times
of my sister in her pink
She seemed lost
You may know my sister Kathy.
When the fire started, Kathy
the apartment. She was playing
and I was watching reruns of I Love
but the reflection of the flames
Tata! I yelled out the window.
from Mexico and was staying
next door with my aunt Sonia.
her bunk bed holding her bear
I pulled her by her legs
how fire makes noise.
It doesn’t burn in any direction.
KARLA DIAZ
CalArts School of Critical Studies, former CAP youth
participant and CAP Administrative Assistant
It takes everything at once.
how we got out of the building
from the roof fell on my head.
the hospital for two months.
until later. His skin was burned
his body could not be buried.
as they could of his body.
Then it’s over. I don’t remember
Mama says that a piece of wood
That’s how I ended up in
I didn’t find out that Tata died
so much that Mama said
They collected as much
Mama keeps his ashes.
I keep my sister’s photo.
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Surely one of the key factors in the ongoing
success of the Community Arts Partnership at CalArts has
been a deep understanding, from the outset, of what the
possibilities of a true partnership can be. Rather than
simply a linkage between institutions with similar
interests, the CAP program has forged deep
relationships with the self-identified communities
involved and has profoundly affected participants
in a variety of ways that go well beyond the acquisition
or improvement of skills, important as that is.
Empowerment
Reciprocity
and
: Art
Practice
as Social
Practice
JOAN HUGO
Art Writer and former CalArts Assistant to the Provost
By all accounts, what distinguishes the CAP process is its
unswerving dedication to mentoring as a pedagogic principle;
with its emphasis on a supportive, non-hierarchical structure,
which values process as well as product, and a climate of mutual
respect, mentoring engenders both empowerment and reciprocity
and provides a model for social interaction in other aspects
of daily life. In fact, it is not too much to say that the CAP
framework leads one to conclude that — despite the current
state of affairs in the arts and in the world at large — the arts are
as vital as the other basic necessities of shelter, food, and clothing.
and that a healthy society should incorporate these ideas as one
of its basic tenets.
Empowerment
The process of empowerment is multi-tiered and builds on a
variety of experiences. For the community youth in the CAP
program this would include the broadening of horizons, seeing
beyond the local community; the gaining of self-confidence
through enhanced skills and the claiming of a distinct identity
along with the validation of personal experience; the observation
of role models for personal growth; the ability to envision
oneself as an artist; the realization that one might pursue one’s
goals through higher education; and becoming a presence in the
local community and beyond, with the opportunities and
responsibilities entailed.
For the CalArts student participants empowerment would also
include a broadening of horizons through a heightened
experience of cultural diversity; building self confidence through
the opportunity to develop, exercise and improve the critical ability
to explain and articulate difficult concepts; a chance to acquire
skills as teachers and to consider teaching as a career; and an
opportunity to be innovative while honing their own artistic skills.
As for CalArts faculty, they all comment on how participation in
CAP has helped to improve their teaching methods. For example,
Kobla Ladzekpo, Director of the CalArts African Ensemble and CAP
and CalArts School of Music faculty noted that, first of all, interaction
with new audiences, especially young people, met his long-standing
aim “to share the culture of Ghana with people in the Western
hemisphere. But I have learned so much from it. Teaching is like a
dual process because students ask many questions, which
improves your own teaching.”
He says his own approach with the community students in the CAP
program is akin to what anthropologists call “a participant observation,”
whereby “observers in the field become involved; it is an active, not
a passive process. The opportunity to participate, even for a short
time, can make a big difference in understanding.” This was also
true, he said, of a twenty-week workshop last spring with students
at a continuation school in the San Fernando Valley, which culminated
in three public performances, one of which was at CalArts.
As for the benefit to CalArts students, Kobla stressed that “students at
PAUL CUMMINS
Headmaster, Crossroads School and CAP Visiting Committee Member
Our Ground Time HereWill Be Brief
There is a tragedy occurring in our city and our nation. One of the
avenues to the deepest sources of meaning and joy in life has been
excised from our children and young people's education. And, inevitably,
today's deprived children are tomorrow's depleted and deficient adults.
I speak, of course, of the evisceration of the arts in our schools —
and “the arts” is not really the right phrase for it suggests a finite,
compartment of education that is, regrettably, cut back. But, after
all, it is just one compartment among many and others like math
and reading scores are more easily measurable and, therefore,
in this materialistic society, more easily understood.
The failure of understanding is that “the arts” are not simply “the arts” —
these uncompartmentable, unmeasurable, undefinable arenas we call
music, theater, painting and sculpting, dance, literature — these arenas are
life itself, or rather, the celebration of life in all its mystery, complexity and
gloriousness. What we call “the arts” are a major way in which we discover
ourselves, our souls, our uniqueness — individually and collectively.
They are not only not extra-curricular, they transcend the curricula.
They are the most important and crucial activities and gifts we can give
to our children, and what in our supreme ignorance do we do?
We relegate these experiences to reductive categories and then budgetcut them out of existence.
And the price we pay for this? Where to even begin...
For one, we put generations of uneducated and de-sensitized youth out
in the streets, and there they roam - oblivious to the real agonies and
ecstasies of the human condition, often unfeeling of the pain they cause
others, and unaware of their own deficiencies.
Second, we deprive our most insightful and visionary writers, artists and
actors of an audience. Thus the creative spirits have a harder and harder
time finding people to communicate to and connect with. Symphony
orchestras die out, libraries stagnate, and books have a brief shelf life
before being returned to the publishers to be shredded.
Third, individual Americans, deprived of the arts, have no context in
which to examine and understand the conflicts and complexities of their
lives. Instead, our culture offers a trivial, quasi-religion based on silly
consumerism. The country is starved for meaning, even as it eliminates
the very means whereby it might find that meaning.
And students know when we are deceiving them. They know what is
hollow and what is real. The hollow curricula, driven by endless tests
and evaluations, lead ultimately to drop-outs and to deep alienation.
The drop-out rates in our poorest urban schools are around 50 percent.
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Richard Rothstein of the New York Times estimates that 26 percent of
American kids failed to graduate from high school in 1990 — jumping to 30
percent in 2000. Nationally, the drop-out rate of immigrant Latinos between
the ages of 16 and 19 in 2000 was 34 percent. California leads the nation in
numbers of children living in households headed by a high school drop-out.
And what do they drop into? Drugs, crime, unemployment or menial jobs,
with little or no prospects for their future.
And for those who do not drop out, what are they staying in? They are
staying in schools which have had the heart cut out of them. All over
this city, we have hoards of alienated students who are bored to death,
sitting in over- crowded classrooms, completely disengaged from their
own education.
The beauty and importance, for example, of drama classes is that they bring
all the senses into play. They are hands on, experiential; they combine
story-telling with body movement, speech, literature and interpretation.
And, in a play, the audience is often a co-participant — the play is a
communal experience. As Shakespeare requested of his audience through
the Chorus in the prologue of Henry V...
Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoof i’ the receiving earth;
For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there, jumping o’er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years into an hour-glass.
And yet, we call these experiences extra-curricular, or we simply eliminate
them from the budget.
This last year, I visited a dozen or more schools in Long Beach, Lennox,
Lawndale, and throughout LAUSD, and everywhere I asked the principals
and head teachers about their arts programs. They looked at me with glazed
eyes and invariably began to talk about testing, time on task, high stakes
tasks, accountability, Open Court reading programs — but the quick and
dirty answer was that, in effect, they had no arts program.
And as a new generation of teachers emerges from schools that have no
arts or minimal programs, we find teachers and administrators who — not
having experienced the arts themselves — do not know what is being lost.
Our lives on the planet are, at best, brief. As the poet Maxin Kumin writes,
“Our ground time here will be brief.” We live between two mysterious
poles of birth and death. We try to convince ourselves that test scores,
dollars, and consuming things are of major importance, when deep down
we know they are not.
CAP:
Proud Sponsor
of Cultural Bridges
Program 2003
SABIHA KHAN
Freshman at William S. Hart High School
and participant in the CAP music program
Imagine being able to travel halfway around the world with
your friends on a three-week trip-of-a-lifetime that others
only dream about. This fall, 21 students from Pinegrove
School at Dharampur, from the hill state of Himachal
Pradesh in Northern India, got to do just that. The fortunate
students participated in “Cultural Bridges”, a cultural
exchange program with various students and families in
the Santa Clarita Valley. The program was organized with a
mission of fostering dialogue and understanding among
the world's youth and this opportunity was made possible,
by Dr. Chandra Khan, faculty in the School of Critical
Studies and the Community Arts Partnership Program
(CAP) at the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley. The
other sponsors of the program were The City of Santa
Clarita, The Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley,
College of the Canyons, and William S. Hart Union School
District. The endeavor’s main goal was to connect
students halfway across the globe to students living right
here in Santa Clarita Valley, California. Previously, CAP
has coordinated events such as video teleconferencing
sessions with teenagers from Iraq, Jordan, and New York
different levels get the opportunity to go out to perform and to
teach. And it is an incentive for both CalArts and CAP students
to see their peers achieve. They think ‘If he or she can do this,
then so can I.’ ”
Ivan Johnson, CalArts School of Music alumnus and music
coordinator for both the Santa Clarita Valley and Plaza de la Raza
CAP programs describes his own experience as “constantly
growing and learning. It helps you in your own process. Working
with the students from East L. A. has been inspiring; it has
introduced me to a new and very different culture and my work
has changed.”
Ivan is developing an innovative method of teaching music theory
which he hopes to publish this spring. It is the direct result of the
necessity he encountered “to break down music to different
levels. Going back to basics makes you rethink what you know.”
The method Ivan is working on is about “teaching theory in a
creative environment, using both improvisation and composition,
incorporating both classical and jazz. Why separate the two? It's
about the fusion of two languages of music, a new way of looking
at harmony and rhythm, not as a math project or just having to
learn rules but having the work come first, then the rules follow.
And the students are really stoked. The classes keep getting
bigger all the time because of word of mouth.”
Reciprocity
The CAP program, established in 1990, is over a decade old and
now has a quantifiable history. There is ample evidence that it
has had significant impact on the lives of community youth,
CalArts students and faculty, and on the communities with which
it has collaborated. Because of the program's structure and
emphasis on experimental partnership, this impact has been
circular rather than linear; instead of a simple ripple effect, there
is now something more like a tidal ebb and flow that starts with
students involved first at the community level who then go on to
become CalArts students and, finally, CAP faculty or instructors
at community arts centers and in public schools.
A perfect example of this circular process was offered by Andy
Freeman, faculty in the CalArts School of Art and CAP. “This
coming spring semester Paola Prato is stepping into the lead
teacher role for part of the CAP class at the Los Angeles Center
for Photographic Studies (LACPS) that John Bache (CalArts
Acting Provost, School of Art and CAP faculty) and I have
overseen for some years. She'll be working with us on an
ambitious project that combines a theme she has developed
called ‘REVOLUTION.’ It is the result of a special grant opportunity
generated through a graduate student at Occidental College,
who is in turn working with a former CalArts photography MFA
graduate and former CAP teaching assistant who is now full-time
faculty at Occidental. ”
“Paola's family emigrated from Uruguay and were serious about
education. Paola found her way to CalArts as a student and had
an experience that could only happen here. A foundation student
of mine in the mid-nineties, she graduated from CalArts and still
holds the distinction of being one of the best students with whom
I've worked. Her work with CAP while a student made it plain that
she is a gifted teacher. She went on to work at Los Angeles Center
for Photographic Studies (LACPS) and became a site coordinator
for LACPS and CAP.”
“She is now teaching for the Los Angeles Unified School District
(LAUSD) at Cleveland High School in Reseda, grappling with the
issues tormenting public schools in the arts and putting together
a program through great determination. She is their entire
photography program. This is one obvious example of seeing
one’s efforts take shape in the classroom.”
“Paola is now expanding the program for Cleveland High School,
by including her students in the CAP Photography program. It is
impressive to see this kind of impact. I look at this situation and
think ‘Not only are our graduates employed (no minor feat in this
world), they are also contributing artistically, socially, intellectually
and professionally.’”
When asked about how the CAP experience affects CalArts
students and teachers, Karen Atkinson, CalArts alumna, CalArts
School of Art and CAP faculty cited another exemplary situation.
“Otoño Lujan began as a CAP student through the workshops we
did at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) and
later was accepted to CalArts in the Art Program. While at
in their effort to “make the world a smaller place” and create awareness
and acceptance in the minds of local teenagers. During the Cultural
Bridges project, however, they were able to help students identify with
one another through a series of concerts and workshops during the
Indian students’ visit.
from the rural farmlands of Punjab to joyous occasions such as weddings
and clubs in Britain, San Francisco and Italy. The dance is performed to
the beat of a certain drum, which is known as a dhol. The dancers follow
the beats of the drum, and the dhol plays a beat called torha, which gives
the dancers a cue to change the step.
One such event took place on Saturday, November 8th. In the morning
the Indian exchange students were taken on a bus tour of photographic
transit shelter posters created by youth participants in the CAP/Santa
Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club Photography Program.
A workshop followed in which about 30 CAP students and CalArts student
instructors participated. The exchange students taught everyone how
to dance to the vibrant music. It was a fascinating experience for the
exchange students to see the American students whirl around, beating
their feet, shrugging their shoulders and clapping their hands as they
immersed themselves in the spirit of the dance. "Bhangra consists of a
lot of steps that are fairly similar, but it's all about how you integrate
them." Said Prabhpreet Singh, our “Bhangra Guru” from Pinegrove
School. Participating in the workshop led by the Indian exchange
students, the CAP participants felt a joyous, unifying force that brought
people of different cultures together. They danced and practiced for
almost an hour, driven by the upbeat music with fierce drumbeats and
powerful vocals coupled with graceful dance moves. The CAP participants
discovered that Bhangra requires a high degree of skill, coordination
and energy, all of which are reflected in the precision and grace of
the dancers. Satyan Dua described the experience. “I felt proud that I
was spreading my culture (to the United States).” Teaching originally
choreographed dance moves to the infectious beats of today’s top Indian
pop songs, the exchange students captured the energy and enthusiasm
of their “New Bhangra dancers-to-be”.
In the afternoon, eager music students from the community who participate
in the CAP music program filed into Roy O. Disney Music Hall expecting
their regularly scheduled music workshops, but were instead taken to the
Gamelan room and were treated to an afternoon of Indian music
performed by CalArts School of Music students Jim Santi Owen, Justin
Dehart, and Evan Fraser followed by an exciting workshop on Indian
music led by Jim Santi Owen. The guests of honor were the Indian
exchange students, who performed and taught two Indian folk dances.
The first dance was called Natti (also called Naati), a folk dance from their
home state of Himachal Pradesh.
The second dance was a more contemporary Bhangra routine, a powerful
and graceful folk dance from the land of Punjab, where Punjabi farmers
use the dance to celebrate abundant harvest. Today, the energetic music
and vibrant dance have become part of urban South Asian culture in India
and abroad. Traditionally, the dance commemorates “Bhaisaki” or the
New Harvest. In the course of 100 years, the art of Bhangra has moved
CalArts, he became a CAP teacher, working with the Boys and Girls
Club in Newhall. He used his experience as a CAP student in good
ways, and was a wonderful teacher. While he was at CalArts, he met
Jon LaPointe who was also in the art program and was a CAP
teacher. When Otoño graduated, he began working at Side Street
Projects (SSP), a nonprofit arts organization [of which Karen was a
founder] as an intern, and was later hired to help start up and run
the Alternate Routes: Education on Wheels Woodworking Bus
Program, a program begun at SSP by myself and Joe Luttrell.”
“Later Otoño became the manager of the program, still teaching
students creative skills. Several years later, Jon LaPointe was hired
to work with SSP, and some years after that, the management of
SSP was handed over to the two of them, and they were made codirectors. I think that the CAP experience was one of the things that
makes them such creative teachers and good nonprofit directors.
Now, they hire former CAP teachers and artists to work with
youth through SSP, both in the woodworking area, and digital
creative skills. They have also come back to CalArts to conduct
teaching workshops for the new crop of CAP teachers.”
To participate in the CAP program, then, is to
participate in a paradigm for a social construct
where priorities are meaningfully assigned and
values are determined by ethics. In other
words, a place where art practice generates a
model for social practice.
Perhaps Andy Freeman sums it up best: “CAP is the place where
we all get reacquainted with our humanity. It is the opportunity
to understand where real difference can be made. There is no
room for arrogance and it is an experience full of humility. It is
about the beginning of ideas, pre-career anxiety, art and practice
and production from the point that we all know is the base of
inspiration. How could anyone pass this up?”
Later, exchange student Maninder Singh Dhillon was asked about the
experience of seeing complete foreigners masterfully playing instruments
from his homeland. He exclaimed, “It felt as if I was in India. The only
difference was that they were speaking English!” The Headmaster of
Pinegrove School, Capt. A. J. Singh, also shared that sentiment. “Getting
to listen to Americans play Indian instruments at the California Institute of
the Arts was really awesome”. Such an affirmation makes it clear that the
aim of the Cultural Bridges project was reached. If students who have
grown up thousands of miles away can feel at home in this country, it’s
clear that American and Indian students can develop friendships and
close ties despite political hostilities around the world.
Expressing his gratitude to all the sponsors of the Cultural Bridges project,
Headmaster Singh had this to say, “The kids have returned with great
respect for (America) and hope to adopt many a new thing in their way of
life from what they have learned from yours. We have come back with
strong bonds of friendships, which shall last a lifetime.”
Thus on November 8, 2003, a little taste of India was mixed into the lives
of CAP and CalArts students and a huge opportunity and wonderful
experience was given to the Indian exchange students from Pinegrove
School. As expressed by Headmaster Singh, this was an experience that
will last a lifetime for both host and exchange students. Years later, everyone
involved in making the Cultural Bridges program a success will look back
on this experience and know that they truly made a difference in breaking
down the preconceptions and ignorance about both cultures to 21 Indian
exchange students and an entire community in the Santa Clarita Valley.
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CAP Hires Former Youth
Participants and CalArts Alumni
CAP Collaborates with the
LA Philharmonic
The CAP program has recently hired two former CAP youth participants
(and CalArts alumni) as full-time staff members. Sayda Trujillo
became CAP’s Public Programs Coordinator in October 2003, a job which
entails the coordination and production of over one hundred public
performances, screenings, recitals and exhibitions annually. Sayda has been
involved with CAP since she was a 14 year old at Roosevelt High School in
East Los Angeles. She participated in the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater
Program for four years before matriculating to CalArts. She graduated from
the CalArts School of Theater in 1998, studied at the Comedia Dell’Arte
and taught acting in Singapore before returning to Los Angeles.
The CAP program collaborated for the first time this past fall with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic. Leni Boorstin and the LA Philharmonic
brought their percussionist Raynor Carroll and his African Ensemble to
perform and lead drumming workshops for CAP youth participants at
both Plaza de la Raza and the Watts Towers Arts Center. Nearly two
hundred young people and their families participated in the workshops
and enjoyed Raynor Carroll’s music. The workshops were followed by a
concert at the brand new Walt Disney Concert Hall – CAP brought 300
youth participants, family members, CalArts students and CAP partners
to hear the LA Philharmonic conducted by Esa Pekka Salonen, and to
see the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall for the first
time! Not only did everyone get to see Raynor Carroll perform with the
orchestra, they also got to see architect Frank Gehry, who was in the
audience to hear how the musicians sounded in the new concert hall.
Karla Diaz, recent MFA graduate from the CalArts School of Critical
Studies MFA Writing Program, was hired in December 2003 as CAP’s
Administrative Assistant. Karla has been involved with the CAP Program
since she was 13 years old, also in the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater
Program. She received her B.A. in 1999 from California State University,
Los Angeles, attended Hunter College in New York and is the co-founder of
(S) Language, an artist-run alternative community art space in Wilmington.
For the CAP program, Karla’s responsibilities are innumerable and include
working closely with the CalArts work study students, tracking information
on the nearly 300 CalArts students who participate in CAP annually as well
as keeping records on the thousands of youth participants in the dozens of
CAP arts training programs each year.
Please join us in welcoming CAP’s newest staff members.
New CAP Faculty
CAP is proud to announce the addition of six new faculty members: Steve Brown,
Eddie Felix, Brooke Keesling, Francesca Penzani, Chris Peters and Miroslav Tadic.
Steve Brown, CalArts School of Film/Video faculty, has joined CAP
as a drawing instructor at the Watts Towers Arts Center as part of the Sony
Pictures Media Arts Program.
CalArts School of Music alumnus Eddie Felix has joined the CAP faculty,
teaching Latin Percussion in CAP’s ArtsCOOL Program at San Antonio High
School and Aliso High School. Eddie also performs at CAP events with Que
Bola, the CalArts Afro-Cuban Ensemble, including performances this past fall
at REDCAT, the Park La Brea Festival, Self-Help Graphics & Art, Washington
High School and Manual Arts High School. Eddie Felix and Que Bola will be
performing this semester at the Croatian Cultural Center in San Pedro and at
the McGroarty Art Center in Tujunga.
Academy Award winning animator and CalArts School of Film/Video alumna
Brooke Keesling has re-joined CAP as the head instructor in the Sony
CAP Alumna Starts Latino
Student Union at CalArts
Last fall CAP alumna Diana Arellano initiated a Latino Student
Union at CalArts. Diana participated in the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth
Theater Program as well as the CAP/LACPS Photography Program and
is currently in her third year at CalArts in the School of Art. She defines
the purpose of the Latino Student Union (LSU) at California Institute of
the Arts is to advocate for acceptance among different cultural groups
to promote diversity throughout the campus and to function as an
educational and cultural learning instrument for students, faculty and
staff. The LSU also provides students a place to express their Latino
culture at CalArts. Participating members will be able to gain awareness
of and express support for each other’s art. This organization is open
and accessible to everyone. All are welcome to join LSU!
Pictures Media Arts Program at the William Reagh Los Angeles Photography
Center near MacArthur Park. Brooke has worked in several CAP animation
programs as an instructor, including positions at Inner-City Arts, the Encino
Media Center and at Watts Towers Arts Center.
CalArts School of Dance Faculty, Francesca Penzani is now teaching
modern dance to students at Plaza de la Raza in East Los Angeles.
CalArts School of Art faculty member Chris Peters has joined CAP as the
head instructor of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program at the Center for the
Arts Eagle Rock.
CalArts School of Music faculty member Miroslav Tadic has also become
part of the CAP faculty. His Blues Band performed and led a workshop at Hamilton
High School last November as part of the CAP/Watts Towers Arts Center Jazz &
World Music Program, and they will be performing this spring at Belmont High
School and at Banning’s Landing Community Center in Wilmington.
The CAP program participated in the opening weekend
of the REDCAT performance space underneath Walt
Disney Concert Hall by bringing performers and CAP
partners and participants to the Community Open House
on November 16. The CalArts African Ensemble directed
by Beatrice Lawluvi and Anthony Douglass led a
procession from the street to the theater and performed
in the new theater along with “Que Bola”, the CalArts
Afro-Cuban Ensemble led by Eddie Felix, Dave Goodwin
and Andy Krier. CAP also brought the Plaza de la Raza
Youth Mariachi Group made up of several former CAP
youth participants to perform at REDCAT. CAP partner
organizations Plaza de la Raza, Self-Help Graphics &
Art, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Armory Center for
the Arts and Visual Communications set up information
tables in the lobby and buses transported CAP students
and their families from Watts Towers Arts Center,
Banning’s Landing Community Center, Center for the
Arts Eagle Rock and Plaza de la Raza.
CAP
REDCAT
CAP has organized an exciting series of free performances taking
place this spring at REDCAT and invites everyone to attend:
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February 17, 2004 @ 7:00 pm
“Keyboard Kraziness”
A whimsical piano concert featuring CAP/Plaza de
la Raza alumnus Jose Soto, and CalArts School of
Music faculty Peter Miyamoto and Mark Menzies.
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February 28, 2004 @ 2:00 pm
March 20, 2004 @ 2:00pm
A West African performance and interactive
workshop led by CalArts School of Music faculty
Kobla Ladzekpo and Beatrice Lawluvi with the
CalArts African Music and Dance Ensemble.
A puppetry performance created by CAP/ Plaza de
la Raza youth participants under the direction of
CalArts School of Theater faculty Susan Simpson, as
part of the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts.
Janice Pober Wins CAP Award
Janice Pober, Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Sony
Pictures Entertainment received the CAP Award at the CAP Partner
Luncheon held on September 25, 2003. She was presented with an
original drawing by CalArts School of Film/Video faculty member John
Mahoney, who teaches in CAP’s Sony Pictures Media Arts Program and in
ArtsCOOL. Janice Pober has been a strong supporter of CAP’s animation
and media programs since 1996 and is a partner with CAP and the City of
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department in sponsoring the Sony Pictures
Media Arts Program for middle school students. Janice is also a valued
member of CAP’s Visiting Committee and works tirelessly on behalf of the
youth of Los Angeles to bring them high quality arts programs in schools
and community arts organizations throughout the region.
CAP’s Sony Pictures Media Arts
Program Adds Fifth Site: San Fernando
Gardens Community Service Center
CAP’s Sony Pictures Media Arts Program added its fifth site in
September, 2003. The San Fernando Gardens Community Service
Center, located in the San Fernando Gardens Housing Projects in
Pacoima, became the fifth location of the Sony Pictures Media Arts
Program, or SPMAP. This after-school media arts program for middle
school students is offered free-of-charge, twice a week for thirty
weeks per year and teaches students life drawing, perspective
drawing, design and color approaches, animation and digital media.
The classes are taught by CalArts faculty, students and alumni and
take place in five diverse neighborhoods: Eagle Rock, MacArthur
Park area, Pacoima, Watts and Wilmington.
CAP Forms New Partnership with
the City of Santa Clarita and Local
School Districts
The CAP Program has initiated a new partnership with the City of Santa
Clarita and local School Districts with the coordination of the Share the
World Program. The Share the World program through CAP brings fifteen
diverse music and dance ensembles to public schools located throughout
the Santa Clarita Valley. The ensembles are made up of School of Music
faculty, students and alumni and represent a variety of cultural traditions
and styles. Included in the program are African Djembe Drumming
Ensemble, African Ensemble, African Storytellers Ensemble, Alan Eder
and Friends, Arohi Ensemble, Balinese Gamelan, Brazilian Ensemble,
Hands On’semble, Javanese Gamelan, Ismael Wadada Leo Smith
Ensemble, Miroslav Tadic Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Que Bola
Afro-Cuban Ensemble, Tabla Rasa Indian Ensemble, Tango Nuevo, and
Sung Meaning: Exploring the Physicality of the Voice.
The Share the World Program was formerly administered by Performing
Tree and is jointly funded by the City of Santa Clarita and local School
Districts including Newhall School District, William S. Hart Union School
District, Castaic Union School District, Acton/Agua Dulce School District,
Saugus Union School District and Sulphur Springs School District.
The Share the World Program is coordinated by CAP’s Public Programs
Coordinator Sayda Trujillo. Santa Clarita Valley public schools can
schedule performances and workshops by calling her at 661.222.2710
or via email: [email protected]
Screening of animated films and live-action videos
created by Los Angeles youth participants in CAP
workshops at Inner-City Arts, Watts Towers Arts
Center and Visual Communications under the direction
of CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Nancy
Buchanan, Cynthia Overman, and Leo F. Hobaica, Jr.
The successful pilot year of CAP’s ArtsCOOL Program has led to the
Los Angeles Unified School District nearly doubling the program in this
second year. ArtsCOOL is an in-school program sponsored by the Los
Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch directed
by Richard Burrows, and places CalArts faculty and students in Options
High Schools throughout Los Angeles to offer twenty weeks of
arts training. Last year ArtsCOOL took place in seven high schools: Aliso,
Earhart, Hope, Monterey, Phoenix, Ramona, and Whitman High Schools.
This year in addition to the seven original high schools, ArtsCOOL is
including another five schools: Einstein, Lewis, London, Rogers and San
Antonio High Schools. The schools are located in East Los Angeles, South
Los Angeles, Venice, the Fairfax District and throughout the San Fernando
Valley. CalArts faculty members who are teaching in the ArtsCOOL program
include Beatrice Lawluvi, Kobla Ladzekpo, Marvin
Tunney, B.J. Dodge, Nancy Buchanan, I Nyoman Wenten,
Nanik Wenten and John Mahoney. ArtsCOOL instructors also
include CalArts alumni Miyo Hernandez, Eddie Felix, Reggie
Coleman and students Morena Santos and Jeff Purmort
among others.
Digital Cookbook Website
CAP’s Digital Cookbook is now online at http://digitalcookbook.org —
showcasing artist-inspired projects and the resulting student work that
encompasses graphic design, video, animation, performance and videoteleconferencing technology.
In addition, a new feature on the Web site will highlight the work created in
classroom projects implemented by high school teachers who participated
in last fall’s instructional digital arts workshops held at CalArts. These
workshops were part of CAP’s Demonstration Project for the California
Arts Council.CAP’s Digital Cookbook Web site and publication is sponsored
by the California Arts Council.
The San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center provides a
multitude of services and classes for the residents of the housing
project and the local community. The director is Teresa de la Paz and
the liaison with SPMAP is Consuelo Telfair. CalArts School of Film/
Video alumna Vanessa Cruz is the instructor, along with several CalArts
students and CalArts School of Film/Video faculty John Mahoney.
A total of 26 middle school students participated in the first semester
at San Fernando Gardens!
April 28, 2004 @ 7:00 pm
CAP’s ArtsCOOL Program Expands
May 21 and 22, 2004 @ 7:30 pm
“Entries”
May 23, 2004 @ 2:00 pm
“Tardeada de Tango”
An original theater production written by playwright
Bernardo Solano with CAP/ Plaza de la Raza youth
participants under the direction of CalArts School of
Theater faculty B.J. Dodge and Marvin Tunney.
An afternoon of tango music and dance featuring
the band “Tango Nuevo”, CalArts School of faculty
Mark Menzies and Peter Miyamoto, CalArts School
of Music student Martin Loyato and CalArts School
of Theater faculty Marvin Tunney.
May 24-June 4, 2004
A screening series presenting films from
developing countries in cooperation with the
Global Film Initiative and the CalArts School of
Film/Video. CAP is presenting several films at
events organized specifically for Los Angeles
area high school students.
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2003- 2004 ARTS PROGRAMS FOR
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS (CALARTS) COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIP (CAP)
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock Sony Pictures
Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
Armory Center for the Arts/CAP Digital Media Workshops
The CAP Digital Media program at the Armory Center of the Arts is a 20-week program
for high school students. The students learn design techniques, research current
issues, various design applications on computers and video teleconferencing. They
produce individual and collaborative pieces that are posted in the public bus shelters
and exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts, CalArts and other locations throughout the city, as well as contributing to a collaborative CD-Rom and website.
classes are on thursdays
at Armory Center for the Arts
145 north raymond ave pasadena ca 91103 tel 626.792.5101
class dates oct 9 – dec 11, 2003 & jan 15 - mar 18, 2004
time 3:30-6:00pm
instructor calarts school of art faculty shelley stepp and
calarts teaching assistants
Art in the Park Music Program
This 12-week music program features small group and individualized instruction in
both guitar and percussion for teenagers ages 13-19. The program culminates with a
public performance in June at the annual Art in the Park Corn Festival.
classes are held on thursdays & fridays
at Art in the Park
5568 via marisol los angeles ca 90042 tel 323.259.0550
class dates feb 19 – may 6 & feb 20 - may 7, 2004
times
guitar
thursdays, 4:00 - 6:00pm
percussion
fridays, 4:00 - 6:00pm
instructors elyssa shalla and joe straub
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice-weekly after-school for middle
school students (ages 10 to 14) at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock in Eagle
Rock. The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts, taught by
CalArts faculty, alumni and students. The middle school students learn drawing and
painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an
art portfolio and how to create art work on computers. The program culminates in a
public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This
program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership between the
CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department,
and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
classes are held on wednesdays & fridays
at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
2225 colorado boulevard los angeles ca 90041 tel 323 226-1617
class dates oct 1 - dec 12, 2003 & jan 21 - june 11, 2004
time 3:30 - 6:30pm
instructor calarts school of art faculty chris peters and
Register on the first day of class (Parent’s/Guardian’s signature required on the participant form)
Inner-City Arts /CAP Animation Workshops
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Advanced Music Training Workshops
This CAP program begins in October and continues through May. A 24-week series
of workshops are held for 20-40 high school students, who learn basic animation,
zoetropes, flip books, hand animation, computer animation, drawing on film and
optical printing. The students each create an animated short and collaborative film
which is screened in culminating festivals at Inner-City Arts, Watts Towers Arts
Center, CalArts, and other venues. All students receive tapes of their work.
This CAP program provides advanced instrumental instruction to over 150 teenagers
in piano, violin, flute, jazz guitar, classical guitar, drumset, brass, saxophone, salsa
band, Latin percussion, and theory and composition. Thirty weeks of instruction takes
place at Plaza de la Raza beginning in October and continuing through June. The
workshops culminate in a recital in the Margo Albert Theatre in June.
classes are held on saturdays
at Inner-City Arts
720 kohler los angeles ca 90021 tel 213.627.9621
class dates oct 4 - dec 13, 2003 & jan 24 - may 1, 2004
time 10:00am - 1:00pm
instructor calarts school of film/video faculty leo hobaica and
Van pickup available. Please call Inner-City Arts for times and locations
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies/
CAP Creative Writing Workshops
Banning’s Landing Community Center Sony Pictures
school students (ages 10 to 14) at the Banning’s Landing Community Center in
Wilmington. The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts, taught
by CalArts faculty, alumni and students. The middle school students learn drawing
and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together
an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in
a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program
is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership between the CalArts
Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, and
Sony Pictures Entertainment.
classes are held on mondays & wednesdays
at Banning’s Landing Community Center
100 w. water street wilmington ca 90744 tel 310 522-2015
class dates oct 1 – dec 3, 2003 & jan 21 - june 9, 2004
time 3:30-6:30pm
instructor ruben esqueda and calarts teaching assistants
The CAP Creative Writing program focuses on working with students individually
and as a group to create written works which explore personal identity and issues
of importance to the students. The program is offered at My Friend’s Place in
Hollywood, where homeless teens work with CalArts faculty members and students to
produce stories, poetry, essays, performance pieces and photography. The program
culminates in publications of anthologies of writings and art by the teenagers and
the CalArts students. The students also participate in public readings of their work
at CalArts, LACPS, My Friend’s Place, Beyond Baroque, and various bookstores
throughout the city.
classes are held on wednesdays
at My Friend’s Place
5850 hollywood blvd hollywood ca 90028 tel 323 908-0011
class dates oct 1 - dec 10, 2003 & jan 21 - apr 28, 2004
time 1:00 - 3:00pm
instructors calarts school of critical studies faculty mady schutzman,
jon wagner, and calarts teaching assistants
CalArts/CAP Digital Media Workshops
The Digital Media classes are offered after-school to high school students in 3 10week sessions and provide instruction and experimentation with computers, video,
multimedia and digital arts. The classes are held once a week and allow for crosstown
communication with students in different locations. The students learn various software programs, how to use the Internet, how to create web pages and CD-ROMs, learn
how to video teleconference, and to communicate and create art with students in
other neighborhoods using computers and other video equipment. Art work produced
digitally by the students is exhibited on the World Wide Web and on CD-Rom, as well
as in videos and printed materials.
classes are held on tuesdays
at California Institute of the Arts
24700 mcbean parkway valencia ca 91355 tel 661.222.2708 (cap office)
time 4:30 - 7:00pm
instructor calarts school of art faculty shelley stepp and
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Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
Youth Photography/ Public Art Workshops
This Spring Semester CAP program provides 12 Saturday workshops for up to 60
high school students. The students are taught basic darkroom skills, matting,
mounting, framing, elements of public art and how to create images on the computer.
The participants collaboratively design individual 4 x 6 foot bus shelter posters and
street banners on a variety of issues important to teenagers. The workshops are
held from March through May. The culminating exhibitions take place at LACPS, the
Armory Center of the Arts, CalArts and other locations. The banners and bus shelter
posters are displayed in public locations throughout the city of Los Angeles.
a t California Institute of the Arts
24700 mcbean parkway valencia ca 91355 tel 661.222.2708 (cap office)
class dates mar 6 - may 29, 2004
time 10:00am - 3:00pm
instructors calarts school of art faculty john bache, andy freeman,
shelley stepp and calarts teaching assistants
Van pickups are available at 9:00am at Franklin, Cleveland, and Lincoln High Schools.
classes are held on mondays, tuesdays, wednesdays,
thursdays, fridays, & saturdays
at Plaza de la Raza
3540 north mission road los angeles ca 90031 tel 323. 223.2475
class dates sept 29 - dec 6, 2003 & jan 20 - mar 27 & apr 12 - june 13, 2004
times
classical guitar
mondays, 4:00 - 6:00pm
brass
tuesdays, 4:00 - 6:00pm
latin percussion
salsa band
drum set
wednesdays & fridays, 4:00 - 6:00pm
advanced piano
flute
saxophone
ways of hearing
violin
jazz guitar
saturdays, 10:00am - noon
instructors ivan johnson and calarts teaching assistants
Plaza de la Raza Digital Media Workshops
The Digital Media Program offers 30 weeks of instruction and experimentation with
computers, multimedia and digital arts. The classes are held once a week, and allow
for crosstown communication with students in different locations. The students learn
to use the Internet, create web pages and CD-ROMs, learn how to video teleconference
and to communicate and create art with students in other neighborhoods using computers
and video equipment. Artwork produced digitally by the students will be exhibited on
the World Wide Web and on CD-Rom, as well as in videos and printed materials.
classes are held on mondays
at Plaza de la Raza
time 4:00 - 7:00pm
instructors miyo hernandez and calarts teaching assistants
Plaza de la Raza Puppetry Workshops
This twenty-week puppetry production class gives students an opportunity to collaboratively
create a puppet play. Instructors teach workshops in puppet and mask making using
a variety of materials including cardboard, cloth, paper maché, and found objects.
Creative writing and visual art are also important components of the class as well
as filming and video editing using state-of-the-art digital equipment. All of these
elements will culminate in public performances in the Spring.
a t Plaza de la Raza
class dates oct 1 - dec 10, 2003 & jan 21 - mar 17, 2004
time 5:00pm-7:00pm
instructors calarts school of theater faculty susan simpson and
TEENAGERS
All the following workshops are free, but require attendance at all
sessions. All classes are for students ages 13 to 19, with the exception
of the media arts programs for middle school students (ages 10 -14).
For more information about all CAP classes please call 661. 222.2708
Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club
Digital Arts Workshops
The Digital Arts classes are offered to high school students in 3 10-week sessions
and provide instruction and experimentation with computers, video, multimedia and
digital arts. The classes are held once a week, and allow for crosstown communication
with students in different locations. The students learn various software programs,
how to use the Internet, how to create web pages and CD-ROMs, learn how to video
teleconference, and to communicate and create art with students in other neighborhoods
using computers and other video equipment. Artwork produced digitally by the students
is exhibited on the World Wide Web and on CD-Rom, as well as in videos and
printed materials.
Plaza de la Raza Youth Theatre Program
This CAP program provides approximately 45 high school and junior high school students
with forty weeks of instruction in acting, movement, voice, costume design, set design,
lighting, music composition and sound. Classes are held three evenings per week,
beginning in October and continuing through May. Free performances will be held in
May at Plaza de la Raza and at the new REDCAT Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
classes are held on mondays, tuesdays, & thursdays
at Plaza de la Raza
class dates sept 29 - dec 4, 2003 & jan 20 - may 22, 2004
times
beginning theatre
mondays, 6:30 - 8:00pm
movement for theatre
int/adv theatre
instructors calarts school of theater faculty barbara june dodge,
marvin tunney and calarts teaching assistants
Parent’s/Guardian’s signature required on the participant form
Plaza de la Raza Modern & World Dance Workshops
This 30-week program for middle and high school students focuses on modern and
world dance techniques and choreography. Participants create individual original
pieces as well as collaborations with the entire class. The dance classes are held
twice a week in the dance studios at Plaza de la Raza. The dance program students
perform in a semester-end dance recital at Plaza de la Raza.
classes are held on thursdays & fridays
at Plaza de la Raza
times and dates
oct 17 - dec 5, 2003, jan 23 - mar 26, 2004 & apr 16 - june 11, 2004
modern dance
fridays, 4:00-6:00pm
oct 9 - dec 4, 2003, jan 22 - mar 25, 2004 & apr 15 - june 10, 2004
brazilian dance thursdays, 4:00-6:00pm
instructors calarts school of dance faculty francesca penzani and
Parent’s/Guardian’s signature required on the participant form
San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center
Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
school students (ages 10 to 14) at the San Fernando Gardens Community Service
Center in Pacoima. The workshop covers drawing, painting, animation and media
arts, taught by CalArts faculty, alumni and students. The middle school students
learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from model, how to animate, how
to put together an art portfolio, and how to create art work on computers. The
program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the art work produced
by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program,
a partnership between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los
Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
classes are held on thursdays
at the Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club
24909 newhall avenue newhall ca 91321 tel 661.254.2582
class dates oct 2 - dec 11, 2003, jan 29 - may 13 & june 21 - july 13, 2004
time 3:00pm - 6:00pm
instructors calarts school of critical studies faculty chandra khan
and calarts teaching assistants
Photography Workshops
This 20-week CAP photography program enrolls up to 40 high school students. The
students work in the CalArts darkrooms and investigate issues of community through
photographic work. The participants create original photographic bus posters which
are exhibited at Santa Clarita Transit public bus shelters, at CalArts and at the Santa
Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club.
classes are held on mondays
at the California Institute of the Arts
24700 mcbean parkway valencia ca 91355 tel 661.222.2708 (cap)
class dates oct 6- dec 8, 2003 & feb 2 - apr 12, 2004
time 4:00 - 7:00pm; CalArts photo lab
instructors calarts school of art faculty john bache & andy freeman,
visiting artist amanda keller and calarts teaching assistants
Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club Printmaking/Public Art
This 20-week CAP program offers workshops in public art and printmaking for up to
35 high school students. The students work in the CalArts Printmaking Lab to create
monoprints, limited edition silkscreen prints, installations, and large prints on mylar
which are then exhibited in public windows throughout the city. The program also
culminates with exhibitions of the students’ work at CalArts, the Santa Clarita Valley
Boys and Girls Club, local libraries and other venues.
24700 mcbean parkway valencia ca 91355 tel 661.222.2708 (cap)
class dates oct 8 - dec 10, 2003 & feb 4 - apr 7, 2004
time 4:00 - 7:00pm; CalArts printmaking lab (no class November 20)
instructors calarts school of art faculty robert dansby and
Watts Towers Arts Center Sony Pictures
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice-weekly after-school and on
Saturdays for middle school students (ages 10 to 14) at the Watts Towers Arts Center
in Watts. The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts, taught
by CalArts Faculty, alumni and students. The middle school students learn drawing
and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put
together an art portfolio and how to create art work on computers. The program
culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the art work produced by the
students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership
between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Cultural
Affairs Department, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
classes are held on wednesdays & saturdays
1727 east 107th street los angeles ca 90002 tel 213.847.4646
time wednesdays 4:00-7:00pm & saturdays 11:00am-2:00pm
instructors calarts school of film/video faculty cynthia overman
Watts Towers Arts Center Graphic Design: ImageNation
This 20-week CAP course is an introduction to ideas in graphic design held at
the Watts Towers Arts Center. Students learn basic design vocabulary, computer
graphics, and research and editing of individual design work. Participants design
flyers, invitations and brochures using computer and graphics skills, and create
printed materials to use in portfolios. Finished designs are exhibited at the Watts
Towers Arts Center and at CalArts.
time 12:00 - 4:00pm
instructors garland kirkpatrick, visiting artist victor haacke and
Watts Towers Arts Center Music Workshops
This 20-week CAP course is an introduction to playing the piano held at the Watts
Towers Arts Center. Students learn the basics of music although all levels of
experience are welcomed.
time 11:00am - 3:00pm
instructor brenda mcgee
Self-Help Graphics & Art Digital Arts Workshops
This is a 30-week program for teenagers (ages 15-18) which takes place afterschool, once-a-week at Self-Help Graphics & Art in East Los Angeles. The course
includes learning basic computer design applications, how to video teleconference
with students at other CAP partner art centers, how to create art in cyberspace, how
to make CD-ROMs, and how to design web pages. The workshops culminate in
exhibitions of the students’ artwork at Self-Help Graphics & Art, CalArts, on the
World Wide Web and other venues.
Watts Towers Arts Center Jazz and World Music Program
The CAP Jazz and World Music Program with the Watts Towers Arts Center brings
jazz concerts and workshops to over twenty high schools, churches and community
centers in the Watts, South Central Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, and East
Los Angeles areas. Programs are offered in jazz, Latin jazz, Balinese Gamelan,
Javanese Gamelan, North and South Indian music, and African music and dance.
Over one thousand young musicians take part in this program which includes master
classes in specific instruments. The program begins in October and continues
through May. A culminating concert is held at the Watts Towers Arts Center in May.
classes are held on mondays & wednesdays
at the San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center
10896 lehigh avenue pacoima ca 91331 tel: 818 834.9266
time 4:00 - 7:00pm
instructors vanessa cruz and calarts teaching assistants
classes are held on tuesdays
at Self-Help Graphics and Art
3802 cesar chavez avenue los angeles ca 90063-1896 tel 323.881.6444
time 4:00 - 7:00pm
instructors reggie coleman and calarts teaching assistants
William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center Sony
Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
Santa Clarita Valley Arts Partnership World Music
and Chamber Music Workshops
Visual Communications Video Workshops
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice-weekly after-school and on Saturdays
for middle school students (ages 10 to 14) at the William Reagh Los Angeles Photography
Center near MacArthur Park. The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and
media arts, taught by CalArts faculty, alumni and students. The middle school students
learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how
to put together an art portfolio and how to create art work on computers. The program
culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the art work produced by the students.
This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership between
the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Department, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
The CAP World Music and Chamber Music program offers twenty weeks of Saturday
master classes for up to one hundred elementary, middle and high school students.
Classes include string ensembles, West African djembe drumming, jaw harp,
improvisation, percussion, chamber ensembles, guitar and bass, Latin percussion,
and more. CalArts faculty and student ensembles also perform in concert/workshops
at College of the Canyons, high schools, middle schools and elementary schools
throughout the Santa Clarita Valley. The program culminates with two semester-end
recitals performed in the CalArts Main Gallery.
This is a 16-week program for teenagers (ages 15-18) which takes place afterschool, once-a-week at Visual Communications in Little Tokyo during the Spring
Semester. The course includes learning basic video techniques, lighting, sound,
interview techniques, story development and story boarding, and digital editing on
state-of-the-art digital equipment. The workshops culminate in screenings of the
students’ videos at Visual Communications, CalArts, on the World Wide Web and
other venues. All students receive tapes of their work.
If you are associated with a high school in Los Angeles County and would like to schedule a concert/workshop.
please call Sayda Trujillo, CAP Public Programs Coordinator at 661.222.2710
24700 mcbean parkway valencia ca tel 661.222.2708 (cap)
time 12 noon - 4:00pm
instructors ivan johnson and calarts teaching assistants
at Visual Communications
120 judge john aiso street basement level los angeles ca 90012
tel 213.680.4462
class dates feb 4 - may 19, 2004
time 4:00 - 6:00pm
instructors calarts school of film/video faculty nancy buchanan
classes are held on wednesdays & saturdays
at the William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center
2332 west fourth street los angeles ca 90057 tel 213.382.8133
time wednesdays 4:00 - 7:00pm & saturdays 11:00am - 2:00pm
instructor brooke keesling and calarts teaching assistants
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WORKSHOPS
June 21 – July 13
March 6 – May 29
LACPS/CAP Photography
Saturdays, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
January 21 – June 12
Sony Pictures Media Arts Program/CAP
banning’s landing community center
Mon. & Weds. 3:30-6:30 pm
center for the arts eagle rock
Weds. & Fri. 3:30-6:30 pm
san fernando gardens community service center
Mon. & Weds 4:00-7:00 pm
watts towers arts center
Weds. 4:00-7:00 pm & Sat. 11:00 am-2:00 pm
william reagh los angeles photography center
Weds. 4:00-7:00 pm and Sat. 11:00 am-2:00 pm
Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club/
CAP Digital Arts
Mon. & Weds. 9:00 am – 12 noon
January 27 – June 7
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Digital Media
Mondays, 4:00-7:00 pm
January 24 – April 10
SCVAP/CAP Chamber and World Music
Saturdays, 12 noon – 4:00 pm
January 23 – March 26 & April 16 – June11
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Modern Dance
Fridays, 6:00-8:00 pm
January 22 – March 25 & April 15 – June 10
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Brazilian Dance
Thursdays, 4:00-6:00 pm
January 15 – March 18
Armory Center for the Arts/CAP Digital Media
Armory Center for the Arts/CAP
Making Music Through Technology
Fridays, 3:15 pm-4:00 pm & 4:30 pm-5:30 pm
CalArts/CAP Digital Arts
Tuesdays, 4:30-7:00 pm
January 20 – March 27, & April 12 – June 20
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Advanced Music
classical guitar Mondays, 4:00-6:00 pm
brass Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm
latin percussion Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm
salsa Tuesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm
drumset Wednesdays & Fridays 4:00-6:00 pm
piano Thursdays 4:00-8:00 pm
flute Fridays, 4:00-6:00 pm
saxophone Fridays, 4:00-6:00 pm
violin Fridays, 6:00-8:00 pm
ways of hearing Fridays, 4:00-6:00 pm
jazz guitar Saturdays, 10:00 am -12:00 noon
Inner-City Arts /CAP Elementary Animation
Mondays & Wednesdays, 10:30 am-12:00 noon
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Puppetry
spring: Wednesdays 5:00-7:00 pm
January 24 – May 1
Inner-City Arts/CAP High School Animation
Saturdays, 10:00 am-1:00 pm
LACPS/CAP Writing @ My Friend’s Place
Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00 pm
Plaza de la Raza/CAP/Youth Theatre
beginning theatre
Mondays, 6:30-8:00pm
movement for theatre
Tuesdays, 6:00-8:00pm
int/adv theatre
Thursdays, 6:00-8:00pm
jazz vocal 2:00 – 3:00 pm
songwriting/music composition
2:00-3:00 pm & 3:00-4:00 pm
rhythm guitar & bass
2:00-3:00 pm
latin percussion i & ii
1:00-2:00 pm & 2:00-3:00 pm
improvisation i & ii
2:00-3:00 pm & 3:00 –4:00 pm
ways of hearing i & ii
12:00-1:00 pm & 1:00-2:00 pm
strings ensemble i & ii
1:00-2:00 pm & 3:00 –4:00 pm
jazz ensemble 3:00-4:00 pm
strings ensemble i & ii
1:00 – 2:00 pm & 2:00-4:00 pm
west african djembe drumming i & ii
2:00-3:00 pm & 3:00 -4:00 pm
beginning jazz improvisation
1:00-2:00 pm
advanced jazz theory
2:00 – 3:00 pm
jaw harp i & ii
1:00 – 2:00 pm & 2:00-3:00 pm
February 2 – April 12
SCVAP/CAP Photography
Mondays, 4:00– 7:00 pm
February 4 – April 7
SCVAP/CAP Print/New Media
Wednesdays, 4:00– 7:00 pm
January 30-May 25
Self-Help Graphics/CAP Digital Arts
Tuesdays, 4:00-7:00pm
Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls
Club/CAP Digital Arts
CALARTS CAP Spring 2004 CALENDAR
KAOS Network
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS)
My Friend’s Place
Plaza de la Raza
Located in Leimert Park, KAOS Network is a
community art center dedicated to providing training
in digital arts, media arts and multi-media.
Established in 1984, KAOS Network offers weekly
classes and workshops in video, animation, digital
arts, video teleconferencing, artist development and
drop-in performance/open mike programs. Each
week over 150 youth participate in workshops and
programs at the center. In addition to classes,
workshops and performances, KAOS Network has
produced music videos, videotaped community
programs and has produced documentaries for the
State of California. KAOS Network is committed to
creating a community of young people who are
dedicated to learning new technologies, acquiring
employable skills and participating in training in
digital arts and new media.
Founded in 1974, the Los Angeles Center for
Photographic Studies is an artist-run organization
dedicated to presenting and encouraging diverse,
innovative and challenging work by emerging and
established photographic artists. Through its
exhibitions, installations, lecture series, workshops
and publications, LACPS seeks to expand the
definitions of photography, integrate photographic
practice into a larger context of visual media and
cultural representation,develop a broad audience for
the medium and remain a resource for artists in the
community. Located in Los Angeles, LACPS organizes
exhibition, publications and youth programs.
My Friend's Place is a center in Hollywood dedicated
to assisting and inspiring homeless youth to build
self-sufficient lives. The center offers homeless
youth a refuge from the streets and meaningful crisisintervention. With a framework of stability, structure,
and positive mentoring, homeless youth can improve
self-esteem, increase pro-social behavior and acquire
the skills necessary to become self-sufficient.
Individualized case management is conducted through
three programmatic areas: 1) the Life Essentials
Program meets emergency needs such as food and
clothing and provides shelter and transportation
referrals; 2) the Independent Living Skills Program
offers workshops and individual counseling in
Education, Employment, Creative Arts, and Life Skills;
3) the Healthy Friends Program provides clinically
and culturally appropriate medical, health, and
mental health services addressing issues such as
HIV/AIDS, addiction and recovery, proper health care,
parenting, and mental health disorders. My Friend's
Place offers a safe haven and programs where
homeless youth can share their experiences with
peers, adult role models, and clinical professionals,
and build the confidence and skills necessary to
pursue a more stable, self-sufficient life.
Plaza de la Raza School of Performing and Visual
Arts has provided educational and cultural programs
in the arts for thirty years. It is recognized nationwide as one of a small number of exceptional
programs devoted to the development of the artistic
spirit in young people. As a cultural center for arts
and education, Plaza de la Raza provides professional
training in five major disciplines: Theatre Arts,
Dance, Music, Visual Arts and Communication Arts.
The conservatory program is designed to provide
intermediate through advanced levels of instruction
to talented students. Auditions are required to enter
all performing arts classes and visual arts students
must submit an example of their work. Located
in Lincoln Park in East Los Angeles, the facilities
at Plaza de la Raza include a gallery, black box
theatre, dance studio, music building with
rehearsal rooms, outdoor stage and an art studio.
The Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley has
a solid record of providing appropriate services and
opportunities responsive to the needs of a diverse
youth population – particularly those from socially
and/or economically disadvantaged homes, single
parent homes and latch-key situations. With a current
membership of 1,050, the Boys and Girls Club
of Santa Clarita Valley serves approximately 250
youths each day. The organization’s central facility
is located in a city park between a senior high and
a junior high school, with satellites in three other
disadvantaged areas. The facilities include an art
center, computer center, digital lab, learning center,
game room and a gym.
The San Fernando Gardens Community Service
Center is part of the Housing Authority of the City
of Los Angeles and is located in Pacoima in the
heart of the Northeast San Fernando Valley. The
center, located in the middle of the San Fernando
Gardens Housing Project, offers job placement
assistance for adults as well as after-school
programs for children and youth. These free
programs include educational opportunities, special
events, field trips, social activities, job training and
placement services, parenting classes, a resource
center, literacy services, child care training classes
and youth employment workshops for the families
living in the housing project and the immediate
surrounding community within a one mile radius.
KAOS Network
Ben Caldwell Director
4343 Leimert Blvd LA CA 90008
tel 323.296.5717 fax 323.291.3856
www.b-boykingdom.com
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
John Bache
President & Acting Executive Director
Paola Prato CAP Site Coordinator
3034 Angus Street LA CA 90039
tel 323.669.1897
My Friend’s Place
David Brinkman Executive Director
Heather Carmichael Clinical Director
Camilla Brannstrom Special Projects
5850 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood CA 90028
tel 323.908.0011 fax 323.468.1243
[email protected]
Plaza de la Raza
Rose Marie Cano
Executive Director
Maria Jimenez-Torres
Education Coordinator
3540 N. Mission Road LA CA 90031
tel 323.223.2475 fax 323.223.1804
www.plazadelaraza.org
Jim Ventress Executive Director
Judy Belue Development Director
Cherie Shefton Art Director
Kaylene Veloz PROJECT Learn Coordinator
24909 Newhall Avenue Newhall CA 91321
tel 661.254.2582 fax 661.254.3278
www.scvboysandgirlclub.org
Teresa de la Paz Project Director
Consuelo Telfair Community Case Manager
10896 Lehigh Ave Pacoima CA 91331
tel 818.834.9266 fax 818.896.3783
March 19
February 4 – May 19
May 23
CAP/Plaza de la Raza Winter Music Recital
Visual Communications/CAP Video
Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm
CAP/Watts Towers Art Center Jazz & World
Music Program presents “Tardeada de Tango,”
Margot Albert Theatre, 6:00 pm
REDCAT, 2:00 pm
March 20
May 24 – June 6
Watts Towers Arts Center/ CAP
Graphic Design and Photography
Saturdays, 12:00 noon-4:00 pm
CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Puppetry Production
Global Film Initiative Project
REDCAT, 2:00 pm
REDCAT
April 10
June 9
February 4 – May 19
SCVAP Music Recital
Watts Towers Arts Center/ CAP Music
piano workshops Saturdays, 11:00-3:00 pm
ArtsCOOL Exhibition and Performance
CalArts Main Gallery, 2:00 pm
CalArts Galleries D300 & D301, 9:00 am-1:00 pm
April 28
June 11
EVENTS
CAP Youth Animation & Video Screening
with Visual Communications
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Dance Concert
REDCAT, 7:00 pm
Margo Albert Theatre, 5:00 pm
June 13
April 29, 30, May 1, 7, 8
January 31
Common Language/Common Ground –
Professional Development Workshop
led by Beatrice Lawluvi & Kobla Ladzekpo
REDCAT, 8:00 am-12:30 pm
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Theatre production “Entries”
Plaza de la Raza/ CAP Music Recital
Margo Albert Theatre, 7:30 pm,
matinee on May 8, 2:00 pm
Margo Albert Theatre, 2:00 pm
June 27
CAP Music Performance at the Corn Festival
May 1
February 5
Inner-City Arts/CAP Animation Screening
CAP/Watts Jazz and World Music Concert
Que Bola — CalArts Afro-Cuban Ensemble
Croatian Cultural Center of Greater Los Angeles, 6:00 pm
May 5
Inner-City Arts/CAP Animation Program Screening
February 17
CAP Presents “Keyboard Kraziness”
with Peter Miyamoto, Mark Menzies &
CAP/Plaza de la Raza alumnus Jose Soto
Art-in-the-Park, 12:00 noon-6:00 pm
Inner-City Arts, 10:00 am-1:00 pm
EXHIBITIONS
Castelar Elementary School, 10:00 am
March 1 – 31
May 21, 22
CAP/LACPS Photo Bus Poster Exhibition
Plaza de la Raza/CAP Theatre production “Entries”
REDCAT, 7:00 pm
throughout Los Angeles
REDCAT, 7:30 pm
May 15 – May 29
February 22
Que Bola — CalArts Afro-Cuban Ensemble
Watts Towers Arts Center Graphic Design,
Animation & Photography Exhibition & Piano Recital
McGroarty Art Center, 3:00 pm
Reception: May 15, 1:00-3:00 pm
February 28
June 14, 2004
African Ensemble Performance/Workshop
Plaza de la Raza Digital Arts Exhibition
REDCAT, 2:00 pm
Margot Albert Theatre, 6:00 pm
February 29
CalArts Blues Ensemble
Banning’s Landing Community Center, 3:00 pm
March 12 – 13
“Lightning Strikes” CAP/Plaza de la Raza
Puppetry Production @ Plaza de la Raza
March 12, 7:30 pm and March 13, 2:00 pm
March 13
LACPS Photo Bus Tour
Meet at Glendale Train Station, 10:00 am
COLLABORATING PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
Armory Center for the Arts
Banning’s Landing Community Center
The Armory Center for the Arts provides opportunities
for the entire community of Pasadena to experience
and participate in the arts. Programs offer both indepth and introductory arts experiences to a wide
and diverse audience, particularly to people with
limited access to the arts. The Armory Center for the
Arts began 43 years ago as the education program
of the Pasadena Art Museum. Since 1974, when the
organization was independently incorporated as the
Pasadena Art Workshops, it has served more than
200,000 individuals through art classes and programs
developed in collaboration with schools, libraries,
museums, parks, senior centers and local government
agencies. In November 1989, the organization moved
to the renovated historic National Guard Armory in
Old Pasadena and changed its name to the Armory
Center for the Arts. The new centrally located setting
has enabled the Armory to begin exhibitions and
performances, expand its programs to serve a larger
audience (more than 25,000 a year) and become a
vital part of the redevelopment of Old Pasadena.
Banning’s Landing Community Center is a division
of the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los
Angeles operated in partnership with the Friends of
Banning’s Landing. The center provides a complex
capable of meeting a diversity of community needs
and providing a nucleus for comprehensive programs
of high quality arts and educational services, including
a dance studio, multi-purpose auditorium, classrooms,
and exhibition space. Established in 2001, the center
accommodates workshops, conferences, special
events, public meetings and a wealth of other
activities designed to meet the needs of the
community of Wilmington and the City at large.
Banning’s Landing Community Center
Mark Greenfield Director
Lisette Garibay Administrative Assistant
100 E. Water Street Wilmington CA 90744
tel 310.522.2015
[email protected]
Scott Ward Executive Director
Doris Hausmann Director of Arts Education
Denise Seider Director of Studio Programs
145 N. Raymond Ave Pasadena CA 91103
tel 626.792.5101 fax 626.449.0139
[email protected]
www.armoryarts.org
Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra
at College of the Canyons
The Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra, located
on the campus College of the Canyons, involves
close to one hundred teenagers and performs at
various venues throughout the year. College of
the Canyons, founded in 1969, is a comprehensive
public community college. The college provides
opportunities in post-secondary education for
students seeking associate degrees, transfer
programs, technical/vocational programs, basic
skills education, retraining opportunities and selfimprovement courses and programs. The 154 acre
campus, located adjacent to Interstate 5 just 35
miles north of Los Angeles, serves the rapidly
growing community of Santa Clarita. The College
has recently opened a brand new state of the art
Library, media center and a Fine Arts building.
Robert Lawson Director
tel 661.253.3604/661. 259.7800 x415
fax 818.848.1338
Ivan Johnson CAP Music Program Coordinator
College of the Canyons Music Department
Bernardo Feldman Music Director
24655 Rockwell Canyon Road
Santa Clarita CA 91355
tel 661.259.7800 x 3254 fax 661.259.8302
www.coc.cc.ca.us/personal/harutunian_m/scvyouth/
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
CalArts is a private, fully accredited arts college
offering BFA and MFA degrees as well as undergraduate
and graduate certificates. In 1961, CalArts was
incorporated as the first degree-granting institution
in the United States for students of both the visual
and performing arts. It was established through the
vision and generosity of Walt Disney, and the merger
of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (founded
in 1883) and Chouinard Art Institute (founded in
1921). At the Institute, all of the arts – dance,
film/video, music, theatre, writing and the visual arts
– are under one roof, challenging and informing
each other, giving rise to new inter disciplinary
forms. More than 1,200 superbly talented young
artists – representing all 50 states and 28 foreign
countries – study with a faculty of professional
artists in programs that stress both self- discipline
and creative expression. In 1990, CalArts began
the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) to link the
college with community-based arts organizations
in Los Angeles and provide imaginative college-level
arts training to thousands of teenagers each year.
The Santa Clarita Valley Arts Partnership began
in 1994 to create arts programs for teenagers
from neighborhoods near the college.
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Inner-City Arts
The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock is dedicated
to providing multicultural arts programming in the
form of classes, concerts, visual art exhibitions,
dance performances, workshops, and festivals
for the Eagle Rock and Northeast Los Angeles
communities. The center also serves as a meeting
and rehearsal space for many local arts, cultural,
and historical organizations. The Center for the Arts
Eagle Rock was created by the City of Los Angeles
Cultural Affairs Department in March of 1997. The
facility is housed in a former Carnegie Library built
in 1915. The center includes exhibition, performance
and workshop space and presents high-quality
contemporary and historical exhibitions free-ofcharge. Hundreds of children in the community
participate in low-cost art, music, dance and theater
classes at the center. The center also hosts an
annual celebration of the Aztec New Year that
includes an art exhibition, Aztec dancers, art and
craft vendors, a free family arts workshop, and
pre-Columbian style live music. The gallery
and exhibition space is offered free-of-charge
to many cultural arts organizations
Inner-City Arts was established in 1989 as a nonprofit art center providing ethnically diverse youth
with positive experiences through the arts. Inner-City
Arts is the only program in Los Angeles that brings
children into an art studio environment, working in
conjunction with the Los Angeles Unified School
District during the regular school day, to build selfesteem and provide enriching experiences in the arts
which lead to increased self-confidence, creativity,
and academic success. In September of 1994, InnerCity Arts moved into a newly renovated 8,000 square
foot building that has enabled them to increase their
programs and serve all of the youth in their target
community. Inner-City Arts offers classes in dance,
theatre, music, visual arts, language arts, ceramics
and animation.
California Insitute of the Arts
Steven Lavine President
Jenny Krusoe Director
Lui Sanchez Program Director
24700 McBean Parkway Santa Clarita CA 91355
tel 661.222.2708 fax 661.222.2726
www.calarts.edu
2225 Colorado Blvd Eagle Rock CA 90041
tel 323.226.1617 fax 323.226.0949
www.ercc.org
Inner-City Arts
Cynthia Harnisch Executive Director
Bob Bates Artistic Director
Beth Tishler Education Director
720 Kohler Street Los Angeles CA 90021
tel 213.627.9621 fax 213.627.6469
www.inner-cityarts.org
Self-Help Graphics & Art
Side Street Projects
Visual Communications
Watts Towers Arts Center
William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center
For the past 25 years, Self-Help Graphics & Art has
been the leading visual arts institution serving the
predominantly Chicano/Mexicano community of Los
Angeles. In that time, Self-Help Graphics has achieved
national acclaim for its programs and services which
promote the contribution of Chicano art and culture
to the American landscape. Located in the heart of
East Los Angeles, and surrounded by a local
population of over 2 million Chicanos/Mexicanos,
Self-Help Graphics has been a vital community
resource of cultural identity and pride, as well as
center of art opportunity, training, and creativity.
In all its activities, Self-Help has maintained its
mission: (1)To foster and encourage the empowerment
of local Chicano artists, (2)To present Chicano art
to all audiences through its programs and services,
and (3)To promote the rich cultural heritage and
contribution of Chicano art and artists to the
contemporary American experience.
Side Street Projects was founded in 1992 to provide
exhibition space for emerging artists and a workshop
dedicated to the fabrication of artists’ work. Side
Street Projects is an artist-run organization providing
services to artists and workshops for youth. Alternate
Routes is a mobile workshop offered with classes for
young people in various neighborhoods throughout
Los Angeles. The organization is committed to social
interaction across cultural differences and ideas, and
fostering activities with artists that cross media and
definitions of cultural production to help define the
art of the future.
For over three decades, Visual Communications has
been a pioneer in the development of Asian Pacific
American film, video and media. Founded in 1970
by Asian American film school students, educators,
artists and community activists, Visual Communications
has evolved from its early days as a filmmaker’s
cooperative into the preeminent media arts center
dedicated to honest and accurate portrayals of Asian
Pacific American peoples, communities and heritage
through the media arts. Visual Communications
utilizes the media arts to build inter-cultural
understanding and a just and humane society through
its comprehensive education, production, presentation/
exhibition, preservation and access programs. Visual
Communications is located at the new Union Center
for the Arts in Little Tokyo.
The Watts Towers Arts Center’s programs aim to
develop an appreciation of Los Angeles’ varied
social and cultural history through changing exhibits,
tour dialogues, lectures, out/in studio workshops,
performances, technical assistance to developing
and practicing artists, and two annual heritage
festivals. Located in Watts, adjacent to Simon Rodia’s
Watts Towers, which have been designated an
historic landmark, the Watts Towers Arts Center has
been providing cultural programs for the community
since 1961. The Watts Towers Arts Center became
a division of the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Department in late 1975.
The William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center
is housed in a 4,750 square foot building just north
of MacArthur Park. The center includes a 2,000
square foot multi-purpose space, functioning as a
99-seat theater, an exhibition gallery, a dance studio,
and an event hall. The center also includes a
photography lab and a computer room. The William
Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center has been
operated by Grupo de Teatro SINERGIA since 1997,
providing the West Lake community with professional
performing arts presentations, arts classes for
children and adults, a weekly open-mike series,
a monthly play reading program and the only
community photography lab in the Los Angeles area.
The Grupo de Teatro SINERGIA was created to serve
the Latino community through providing performances
in Spanish and English, offering arts workshops,
promoting a greater understanding of Latino culture,
and creating a cultural center that embraces all
Latino arts and traditions.
Self-Help Graphics & Art
Tomas Benitez Director
3802 Cesar Chavez Ave LA CA 90063-1896
tel 323.881.6444 fax 323.881.6447
www.selfhelpgraphics.com
Karen Atkinson Co-Director
Jon LaPointe Co-Director
Otoño Lujan Co-Director
284 East Orange Grove Avenue Pasadena CA 91104
tel 626.577.7774
www.sidestreet.org
Visual Communications
Leslie Ito Executive Director
120 Judge John Aiso Street
Basement Level LA CA 90012
tel 213.680.4462 fax 213.687.4848
www.vconline.org
Rosie Lee Hooks Director
Joan Kleihauer Education Coordinator
1727 E. 107th Street LA CA 90002
tel 323.847.4646 fax 323.564.7030
WIlliam Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center
Ruben Amavizca Director
2332 W. Fourth Street LA CA 90057
tel 213.382.8133
CAP }
{
California Institute of the Arts Community Arts Partnership
The Community Arts Partnership (CAP) began in 1990 as a partnership
between California Institute of the Arts, an arts college, and three community
arts centers: Plaza de la Raza, the Watts Towers Arts Center and the Social and
Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). The partners collaboratively designed
imaginative, in-depth arts training programs in the areas of theatre, jazz, video,
instrumental training and public art aimed at junior high and high school
students. Each after school and weekend program was designed to provide
college-level arts training to young people in their own neighborhoods while
furthering each organization’s long-term institutional goals, as well as providing
training for CalArts students to teach art in a variety of community settings.
CalArts faculty artists work with community artists at the art centers to offer
high quality, imaginative and innovative workshops for thousands of teenagers
throughout Los Angeles County.
In 1992, the partnership expanded to include as partners Inner City Cultural
Center, the Armory Center for the Arts and Los Angeles Center for Photographic
Studies. Inner-City Arts, Encino Media Center and KAOS Network joined CAP
in 1995 and 1996. In 1994, CAP initiated the Santa Clarita Valley Arts Partnership
with the Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club and the Santa Clarita Valley
Youth Orchestra at College of the Canyons. In 1998, Self-Help Graphics and Art
in East Los Angeles joined the partnership, and Side Street Projects in downtown
Los Angeles and Visual Communications in Little Tokyo joined in 2000.
Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club
CalArts Community Arts Partnership
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CLARITA
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Aliso High School
Einstein High School
SAN FERNANDO
VALLEY
London High School
Lewis High School
Earhart High School
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LOS
405 ANGELES
Whitman High School
My Friend's Place
William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center
Ramona High School
Plaza de la Raza
Monterey High School
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San Antonio High School
KAOS Network
Hope High School
The CAP model for arts education focuses on collaboration, in-depth,
imaginative college-level training and individual attention to students through
low student-teacher ratios averaging 4:1. The Community Arts Partnership is
grounded in the belief that the arts provide an important cultural voice for
youth in communities throughout Los Angeles. The high school students are
mentored by the college students and are encouraged to envision and attain
higher education through scholarships and access to faculty, artists and
college admissions practices. The CalArts student instructors receive training
through a semester-long arts pedagogy course offered through CAP and the
CalArts School of Critical Studies. The CAP programs are also designed to
create and sustain long-term reciprocal relationships between institutions,
artists and communities.
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SAN PEDRO
Today, CAP oversees forty different programs with sixteen partner organizations
at forty sites throughout Los Angeles County and offers intensive arts training
free-of-charge to elementary, junior high and high school age youth in art,
theatre, theatre production, video, digital arts, graphic design, drawing, printmaking, animation, public art, photography, writing, jazz, world music,
chamber music, dance, puppetry and advanced instrumental training.
CAP also has conducted a national survey of community-based youth arts
collaborations for the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, and has received
semi-finalist status in the National Endowment for the Arts’ Coming Up Taller
Awards for the past three years.
Self-Help Graphics and Art
Inner-City Arts
SANTA
MONICA
Phoenix High School
Los Angeles Center
for Photographic Studies
In 2002, a new partnership was formed with the City of Los Angeles Cultural
Affairs Department to design and implement their Sony Pictures Media Arts
Program. This program offers twice-weekly classes in drawing, animation and
media arts to middle school students at five community centers: Banning’s
Landing Community Center in Wilmington, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock in
Northeast Los Angeles, San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center in
Pacoima, Watts Towers Arts Center in Watts and the William Reagh Los
Angeles Photography Center near MacArthur Park. In 2003, CAP joined with
the Los Angeles Unified School District to design and implement in-depth arts
programs with seven Options High Schools in Los Angeles, increasing to
twelve school during 2003/2004.
To date, CAP has provided arts education workshops for an estimated
200,000 students, mounted more than 1,500 performances and exhibitions
of student work at more than 200 venues throughout Los Angeles County
before a collective audience of more than 300,000, provided over 20,000
students with in-depth college-level arts training and inspired thousands of
students to enroll in institutions of higher education, including nearly 100
who have enrolled at CalArts.
Rogers High School
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One of CAP’s most ambitious initiatives, the Digital Arts Network (DAN), has
linked ten of the partner arts organizations with digital arts labs complete with
video teleconferencing capabilities. The DAN project began in 1999, providing
weekly workshops for teenagers at all ten sites. This program trains hundreds
of youth participants each year in new technologies, while allowing students
to develop relationships and create art collaboratively across the geographic
and cultural boundaries of Los Angeles.
Banning's Landing Community Center
Re:CAP Newsletter Production
SPRING Issue 2004/Number THREE
CALARTS COMMUNITY
ARTS PARTNERSHIP
Glenna Avila Director
Patricia Gonzalez Associate Director
Wendy Vazquez Operations Manager
Betty Lee Curriculum Coordinator
Sayda Trujillo Public Programs Coordinator
Karla Diaz Administrative Assistant
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE
OF THE ARTS
Steven D. Lavine President
John Bache Acting Provost
Lynn Rosenfeld Vice President
Dean Houchin Vice President
Beth Kopley Vice President
Steve Anker Dean, School of Film/Video
Jon Gottlieb Acting Dean, School of Theater
Cristyne Lawson Dean, School of Dance
Tom Lawson Dean, School of Art
David Rosenboom Dean, School of Music
Nancy Wood Dean, School of Critical Studies
FACULTY ARTISTS (since 1990)
Susan Allen
Steve Anker
Kary Arimoto-Mercer
Karen Atkinson
Larry Attaway
John Bache
Eric Barber
Lee Barnette
Laurel Beckman
Fran Bennett
John Bergamo
Hartmut Bitomsky
Lawrence Blake
Steve Brown
Nancy Buchanan
Ben Caldwell
Theresa Chavez
Marissa Chibas
Bob Clendenen
Gay Crusius-Hoag
Robert Dansby
Barbara June Dodge
Scott Duncan
Alan Eder
Dave Emerson
Martha Ferrara
Julie Feves
Andy Freeman
Janie Geiser
Patricia Mabee Goldstein
Vinny Golia
Charlie Haden
Chad Hamill
Albert “Tootie” Heath
Dick Hebdige
Leo Hobaica
David Johnson
Dennis Keeley
Chandra Khan
Garland Kirkpatrick
Norman Klein
Gordon Kurowski
Alfred Ladzekpo
Kobla Ladzekpo
Beatrice Lawluvi
Cristyne Lawson
Tom Lawson
Betty Lee
Ferdinand Lewis
Joe Lewis
Paul Livingston
John Mahoney
Mark Menzies
Jennifer Miller
Michael Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
Peter Miyamoto
James Newton
Paul Novros
Darek Oles
Cynthia Overman
Christine Panushka
Francesca Penzani
Chris Peters
Bryan Pezzone
Vicki Ray
David Roitstein
Carlos Rosas
David Rosenboom
Lisa Schoenberg
Mady Schutzman
Gary Schwartz
Aaron Serfaty
Susan Simpson
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
Michael Smith
Susan Solt
Poovalur Srinivasan
Shelley Stepp
May Sun
Paul Supkoff
Miroslav Tadic
Tomas Tamayo
Toby Tannenbaum
Rajeev Taranath
Frank Terry
Trang Kim Tran
Marvin Tunney
Naomi Uman
Allan Vogel
Darrell Walters
Jon Wagner
Djoko Walujo
A. C. Weary
I Nyoman Wenten
Nanik Wenten
Nancy Woods
Denise Woods
Michael Worthington
Kiko Cornejo, Jr.
Vanessa Cruz
Cubanismo
Jessica Cusick
Danny De La Paz
Miguel Delgado
Nancy De Los Santos
Juan Devis
Ulises Diaz
Prince Diabaté
Maya Emsden
Leslie Ernst
Ruben Esqueda
Eddie Felix
Cecil Fergerson
Koina Freeman
Harry Gamboa
Amparo Garcia
Margaret Garcia
Willie Garcia
Cheri Gaulke
Joel Glassman
Barbara Goldstein
Vinny Golia
Pat Gomez
Jose Cruz Gonzalez
Patricia Gonzalez
Christina Gorocica
Wesley Groves
Suzanna Guzman
Diane Hall
Patrick Hebert
David Henderson
The Community Arts Partnership is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Department of Education, AT&T, the City of Los
Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the Hearst Foundation, Inc., the James Irvine Foundation, the W.M. Keck Foundation, The Capital Group,
Walter E. D. Miller, California Arts Council, the J.L. Foundation, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Getty Grant Program, Lloyd and Margit
Cotsen, and the Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Surdna Foundation.
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Karin Higa
Cesar Holguin
Sulley Imoro
Flora Ito
Ulysses Jenkins
Maria Jimenez-Torres
Gregg Johnson
Jeffrey Kahane
Kim Kanatani
Brooke Keesling
Michael Kenna
Ravi Kiran
Eliam Kraiem
Jon LaPointe
Julie Lazar
Betty Lee
Alma Lopez
Juanita Lopez
Los Pochos
Toni Love
Eve Luckring
Gilbert Lujan
Otoño Lujan
Ming-Yuen Ma
Yo Yo Ma
John Malpede
Daniel Martinez
Tania Martinez-Lemke
Lewis Mauk
Willie Middlebrook
Yong Soon Min
Michael Miner
David Monkawa
Contributors:
Glenna Avila
Paul Cummins
Karla Diaz
Patricia Gonzalez
Joan Hugo
Sabiha Khan
Betty Lee
Sir Ken Robinson
Designer:
Juliana Sankaran-Felix
Photographers:
Diana Arellano
Glenna Avila
Patricia Gonzalez
Scott Groller
Steven Gunther
Eddie Felix
Juliana Sankaran-Felix
Sayda Trujillo
All artwork is by CAP youth participants
Community Arts Partnership
VISITING COMMITTEE
VISITING ARTISTS (since 1990)
Kim Abeles
Geri Allen
Luis Alfaro
Gloria Alvarez
Alex Alferov
Michael Amescua
Rudolfo Anaya
Tomie Arie
Hector Armienta
David Avalos
Glenna Avila
Judy Baca
Lita Barrie
Lelalois Beard
Geetha Bennett
Norma Bowles
Ed Bland
Chaz Bojorquez
Anne Bray
Peter Brosius
Sandip Burman
Barbara Carrasco
Srikanth Chary
Anna Chavez
Denise Chavez
Elaine Chen
Carl Cheng
Martha Chono-Helsey
Olivia Chumacero
Wendy Clarke
Eva Cockcroft
Reggie Coleman
Robbie Conal
Newsletter Director:
Patricia Gonzalez
Editors:
Glenna Avila
Patricia Gonzalez
Allesandra Montezuma
Joe Morton
Donna Mungen
Merilene Murphy
Nobuho Nagasawa
Alan Nakagawa
Katherine Ng
Al Nodal
Catherine Opie
Rosalie Ortega
Ruben Ortiz-Torres
Barbara Osborn
John Outterbridge
Monica Palacios
Rose Portillo
Paola Prato
Quetzal
Xavier Quijas
Leda Ramos
Irma “Cui Cui Rangel
Yvonne Regalado
Peter Reiss
Luis Reyes
Jolene Rickard
Aleida Rodriguez
Marcos Rosales
Leanna Rosas
Ron Ruiz
Aida Salazar
Ernesto Salcedo
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Ray Sandoval
Rodney Sappington
Larry Shapiro
Alex Slade
Rachel Slowinski
Bernardo Solano
Arjuna Soriano
Joe Smoke
Larry Stein
Miyo Hernandez
May Sun
Roderick Sykes
Tomas Tamayo
Rea Tajiri
Joel Tan
Janice Tipton
Adan Valdez
Patssi Valdez
Carol Wells
Glen Williams, Jr.
Pat Ward Williams
Havana Willis
Al Winn
Richard Wyatt
David Yamamoto
Kim Yasuda
Michael Zinzun
Glenna Avila ex officio
Nick Boone
Richard Burrows
Bruce Corwin
Paul Cummins
Susan Dolgen
Janet Dreisen
Peggy Funkhouser Co-chair
Patricia Gonzalez ex officio
Wendy Greuel
Tommy Hawkins
Judy Johnson
Steven Lavine ex officio
James Lovelace
Eileen Norton
John Orders ex officio
Claire Peeps
Janice Pober
Sir Ken Robinson
Bob Sain Co-chair
Martha Williams
Simbi Kali Williams
Val Zavala
CalArts is a nationally recognized institution for advanced training in the arts committed to graduating students who have mastered the art of
today and will create the art of the future. CalArts faculty of working artists are nationally and internationally known for their contributions to
music, theatre, film, video, writing, dance and the visual arts. CalArts graduates, from all of these disciplines, are a vital source of new artistic
leadership for Southern California and the nation.

Spring 2004

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