FOLIO Summer 2015 - Pasadena Arts Council

Summer 2015 Volume 9 Issue 4
2015 A×S GOLD CROWN AWARDS
CELEBRATING
Series Finale
L E A D E R S H I P, P H I L A N T H R O P Y
I don’t think I ever watched The Late Show with David Letterman. Who
can stay up that late? But I confess I was interested in the hoopla
surrounding his final show. Celebrity guests, retrospectives, the
whole deal. All in all, the verdict seems to be that he handled his
departure gracefully and with a minimal amount of fuss.
The other big finale this year was the last episode of Mad Men. Now
that series I watched from the beginning, from Betty’s sweater sets to
– spoiler alert – Don’s blissed-out hilltop meditation.
A N D A R T- S C I E N C E C R E A T I V I T Y
H O N O RIN G
ANNE ROTHENBERG
2015 GOLD CROWN AWARD
FOR OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AND PHILANTHROPY
I hope I can muster grace, minimal fuss and just a little bliss myself.
This is my last “From the Executive Director” column, and I’m in the
waning days at the helm of Pasadena Arts Council, a post I have held
for nearly 13 years. Next month, my husband and I will follow our
hearts to Northern California, where we will settle in the tiny hamlet
of Camino (population 1,750), about 50 miles west of Lake Tahoe, in
the foothills of the Sierras.
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Cover: Michael Parker, Steam Egg II, 2014-present.
Mortar, mirrors, insulation, steel, steam, herbs
Photo: Jeff McLane, Courtesy Armory Center for the Arts
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What an extraordinary time these PAC years have been for me. I
could take the entire 12 pages of this issue of FOLIO to reel off our
accomplishments, special moments, and people to thank – but I don’t
think I’ll do that. You have read about them in previous issues and
heard me talk about them publicly, and if you don’t know Pasadena
Arts Council all that well, visit us online to learn more about our 50
years of facilitating, empowering and advocating for the arts.
I’d rather look ahead, because Pasadena is more future-facing than
our rich heritage and honored traditions might first suggest. Every
year, Art Center, Caltech and PCC send their graduates out to
explore, invent, create and design a better world. Jet Propulsion Lab
– well, it doesn’t get any better than landing Curiosity on the surface
of Mars. Have you been at the Armory Center for the Arts when a
gaggle of kids bursts out of the studio with their projects, noisy and
exuberant, empowered by art-making? Those kids are the teachers
and judges and voters of the future, and a great many of our cultural
institutions take very, very good care of them.
So do this: think broadly and expansively about the Pasadena of the
future. Urge Mayor Tornek and the City Council to offer as much
support as possible to the creative process – the arts and the sciences
– and give them the place at the table they deserve, alongside
business and tourism. Make it easier for exciting new programs,
festivals and public art to happen with less red tape and more green
lights. And above all, find the grace and the bliss in our museums,
parks, libraries, or anyplace where you can step outside yourself for a
moment and ponder. Results guaranteed.
THE STUDIO AT
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
2015 A×S AWARD
FOR CREATIVITY IN INTERPRETING ART AND SCIENCE
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Background image: Yann Novak: Stillness, 2015. Multichannel audio-visual installation (photo by Christopher Wormald).
MEET THE
2015
AxS and
GOLD CROWN
HONOREES
On June 30, 2015, Pasadena Arts Council will present our 50th Annual Gold Crown Award to Anne Rothenberg for her
outstanding philanthropy and community service, and the fourth annual AxS Award to The Studio at Jet Propulsion
Laboratory for their contributions to the intersecting fields of art, science, and technology.
Since 1965, the Pasadena Arts Council’s Gold Crown Award has honored individuals and organizations for significant
contributions to the visual, performing and literary arts in the local community. The award also celebrates visionary
leadership and philanthropy and their great importance to the cultural fabric of Pasadena, promoting a more effective,
inclusive and thriving arts community.
The AxS Award celebrates the allied importance of both the arts and the sciences to the dynamic tenor of our time.
While often described as occupying opposite ends of a spectrum, art and science are instead united in the AxS Award’s
recognition that both domains are powerful engines of contemporary culture. It commemorates, in Pasadena, a
textured conversation between the sciences and the arts that has long been emblematic of the city’s history, and is
equally fused with its future.
This is the 50th Anniversary of the Gold Crown Awards, and
how wonderful it is to mark this occasion by honoring Anne
Rothenberg for her many contributions to our local cultural
ecology.
Early in Anne’s career, she worked as a reporter at Life Magazine
and as editor at Fortune Magazine. Moving to Los Angeles in
1975, she was an editor at Architectural Digest until 1983.
Along with her husband Jim, Anne has been a lifelong supporter
of art and the creative process. She served as president of the
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts. Originally, the Showcase
House raised money for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association,
to support a concert series in Pasadena. Under Anne’s leadership,
the Showcase House restructured its giving program to begin
supporting a greater number of music organizations and
educational institutions. As a result, the Showcase House now
offers funding to over 50 music non-profits and music education
programs across LA County every year, including underwriting
PAC’s Young Artist Award in Music.
Anne has been a member of the Huntington’s five-member
Board of Trustees since 2005, and was a member of their Board
of Overseers from 2001-2004. She’s deeply involved there, serving on the Advancement, Art Collections, Board
Membership, Buildings and Grounds, Library, Research and Publications committees, as well as a member of the Art
Collectors’ Council.
In 2012, the Huntington Library’s main reading room was formally dedicated as the Rothenberg Reading Room,
honoring Anne and Jim’s leadership and generosity. Just this year the newly inaugurated Rothenberg Hall was opened
to the public as part of the Huntington’s new Visitor Center. Rothenberg Hall features a 400-seat auditorium that hosts
a robust series of lectures, conferences and musical performances for the public to enjoy.
The Studio at Jet Propulsion Laboratory is
an amazing team of visual strategists who are
developing creative ways of communicating,
and working to transform complex concepts
into meaningful stories that can be universally
understood. Their work is seen in public spaces and
art museums, and is in outer space. The AxS Award
will be accepted by the Studio’s director, acclaimed
artist Dan Goods.
Metamorphosis at the 2014 AxS Festival in Pasadena
Metamorphosis, a collaboration by Goods, David
Delgado, and StudioKCA consisted of a glowing,
12-foot-long steel sculpture shrouded in fine mist,
modelled after the real comet known as 67P/
Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Metamorphosis was recently
exhibited in Pasacdena as part of the 2014 AxS Festival.
Recent Studio projects include Refraction, an artwork
that plays with the phenomenon of water bending
light, and most recently the NASA Orbit Pavilion, an
immersive sound installation representing each of the
20 active NASA Earth satellites passing overhead. NASA
Orbit Pavilion premiered at the World Science Festival in
New York this year.
The Studio at Jet Propulsion Laboratories (L-R): Dan Goods, Liz Barrios, Lois Kim, Joby Harris, Jessie Kawata, David Delgado
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Traditional adobe bricks, configured into a circle and surrounded by tree stumps, serve as a proposition to city officials
to install fire rings for community use in parks.
The inviting sound of music and a child’s voice surround a hammock nestled in yellow clouds, suspended near
sculptures with baby monitors and a quilt bearing an inspirational message, suggesting the unique complexities of a
single-parent family.
Topo maps, custom-made wooden block letters, and a film clip called “Western Education” (excerpted from The Man
Who Shot Liberty Vallance) represent an associative investigation into the corollaries between utopic communities and
governmental policies that have shaped US educational practices, land management, and landscape.
A 12’ tall, egg-shaped object covered in mirrors like a giant, warped disco ball functions as an herbal-scented
therapeutic sauna, a friendly environment for social steaming.
After Victor Papanek:
The Future is Not What it Used to Be
“Design is an iterative discipline,” notes curator Jeff Cain, “in which each version improves on the ideas of the
previous prototype.” Liz Nurenberg’s Courting Chair is another direct response to Papanek’s influence; plans
for an early version of object were created by one of his students at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia,
where he was a dean, and later published in his Nomadic Furniture 1. Nurenburg modifies the plans, adapting
a form for a solitary activity to support an intimate experience between two people. The artist’s soft, interactive
sculptures explore intimacy, awkwardness, and personal space in an effort to counteract the isolating aspects
of modern technology.
Exchanges between people are the subject of I + We: Collective Movement Workshop, a 90-minute
participatory and performative artwork by Robby Herbst that explored collective and political identity through
physical play. The project was derived from the artist’s research into the US government’s relationship to citizen
action – particularly around the War on Poverty and the social upheavals of the 1960s. Herbst’s use of objects
to facilitate social exploration evokes Papanek’s use of human-centered design to support open-ended, shared
play for children.
Returning to the works described
earlier, now considered through
this short introduction to Papanek’s
progressive vision, we see how the
work of Olga Koumoundouros,
including her Together and Apart,
Always, relates to that of Papanek
– who was deeply committed to
engaging the living needs of families
and individuals, especially if the larger
design community underserved them.
He refused to accept the artificial
delineation that any group of people
is “too small for concern.” Michael
Parker has refined the design of his
Steam Egg II to allow greater flexibility
– it is now a portable device that
can provide a healing social space at
different locations and to different
communities.
These visually disparate objects are artworks by Rafa
Esparza, Olga Koumoundouros, Dave Hullfish Bailey,
and Michael Parker, which – along with additional
works by CamLab, Liz Nurenberg, Ken Ehrlich and
Mathias Heyden, and Robby Herbst – are featured in
After Victor Papanek: The Future is Not What it Used to
Be, an exhibition organized by artist Jeff Cain for the
Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.
Victor Papanek (1923, Vienna - 1998, Lawrence, KS)
was an American industrial designer, writer, educator,
and early advocate of sustainable, socially responsible,
and human-centered design. The Armory’s exhibition
explores the legacy of Papanek’s design practice and its
relevance in the visual arts by presenting artworks that
take a variety of formal and conceptual approaches.
Some of the artworks on display are new pieces that
are direct interpretations of specific Papanek ideas,
while others are existing works that relate to themes or
forms in his oeuvre. This exhibition invites the viewer to
consider these artworks within the context of Papanek’s
vision and as a critical confluence to refresh dialogues
between sculpture, social practice, human-centered
design, and community participation.
Robby Herbst, Oppositional Dialectic Masks, 2014.
Eight prepared masonite masks
Photo: Jeff McLane, Courtesy Armory Center for the Arts
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Olga Koumoundouros, Together and Apart Always, 2015.
hammock, baby monitor, speakers, quilt, acrylic, plaster, and sound
Photo: Jeff McLane, Courtesy Armory Center for the Arts
Taking the community of Armory employees as their
starting point, artist/writer Ken Ehrlich and architect/
designer Mathias Heyden channeled Papanek’s usercentric research model to interview Armory staffers
about their work habits. The results are a set of
divided curtains that offer flexible, temporary private
spaces in the staff break area, along with a pair of
portable shelf/table-like objects that can function as a
buffet for shared meals or any number of other social
uses.
A direct response to an existing Papanek design is
seen in the work of CamLab, a collaboration between
artists Anna Mayer and Jemima Wyman, whose
Your Body is Not the Same Today as Yesterday (for
Lygia and Irigaray), cites the designer’s plan for a
drop-down table for a temporary, one-room office.
The CamLab team redesigned Papanek’s basic
table, retaining its functionality while abstracting
its design to represent female anatomy. CamLab’s
use of central core imagery comes from the artists’
embodiment of and advocacy for respect of female
bodies. Naming their piece in honor of artist Lygia
Clark and philosopher Luce Irigaray further asserts the
feminine and feminist histories, theories, and practices
foundational to CamLab’s ouvre, while calling to
question the gender politics of DIY self-reliance.
Rafa Esparza, who grew up in unincorporated East Pasadena, used locally sourced materials to create For
the City of Pasadena: Potentially a Fire Pit, which serves as a proposal for a low-cost, low-tech solution to
repopulate the Pasadena parks of his childhood with now-obsolete grills. A proposal of another sort is seen
in Dave Hullfish Bailey’s Toponymic Proposal #2, which offers a poetic use of maps and conceptual models to
invite consideration of landscape as a site for learning and how, as a culture, we design, define, and produce
education.
Papanek’s work – his designs, lectures, and writing – resonates with the traditions of institutional critique by
artists such as Hans Haacke and Michael Asher, the latter of whom taught with Papanek at CalArts (during
which time he lived in Pasadena). While Papanek did not intend to influence art, his vision often runs parallel
to works of object-oriented social practice, research-based interventions, performative sculptures, and other
critical art activities. He was openly enthusiastic about sharing knowledge and encouraged others to build
from his ideas. Papanek did not believe in patents, arguing they stymied innovation and prevented urgent
design solutions from reaching their audiences. He instead offered all of his intellectual property for free, for
future innovators to modify, iterate, and interpret – even as art.
- Irene Tsatsos, Gallery Director/Chief Curator, Armory Center for the Arts
(L) Dave Hullfish Bailey, Toponymic Proposal #2 (Comanche Grasslands), 2014.
Maps and mixed media
Photo: Jeff McLane, Courtesy Armory Center for the Arts
(R) CamLab, Your Body is Not the Same Today as Yesterday (for Lygia and Irigaray), 2015..
Hinged wood, gold mirrored acrylic, lipstick (optional)
Photo: Jeff McLane, Courtesy Armory Center for the Arts
The following generous individuals, corporations,
foundations and government agencies have supported
Pasadena Arts Council this year.
Thank you!
BIG BANG ($50,000+)
California Arts Council
Steven and Kelly McLeod Family
Foundation/The Gamble House
National Endowment for the Arts
Jim and Anne Rothenberg
BREAKTHROUGH ($25,000+)
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
INNOVATION ($10,000+)
Mondriaan Fund
Wells Fargo
FUSION ($5,000+)
John and Louise Bryson
City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs
Division and Pasadena Arts & Culture
Commission
USC School of Architecture
SYNTHESIS ($2,500+)
Art Center College of Design
Cynthia Bennett
Betty Duker
Paul and Heather Haaga
Dianne M. Magee
CATALYST ($1,000+)
Ann and Olin Barrett
MaryLou Boone
Sigrid Burton and Max Brennan
Jim and Gail Ellis
Georgianna Erskine
Kathie Foley-Meyer and Irving Meyer
Wayne Hunt and Carla Walecka
Harvey and Ellen Knell
Peter Knell
Jerry and Terri Kohl
Nancy Hytone Leb and Michael Leb
mediaThefoundation inc.
Stephen and Anne Nowlin
Pasadena Arts League
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Abby Sher
John and Andrea Van de Kamp
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THEORY ($500+)
Fran Scoble
Ray and Sydney Feeney
Frederick Fisher, AIA
Betsy Greenberg
Michael and Dalia Greene
Hathaway Dinwiddie
Adelaide Hixon
Catherine C. Partridge
Scheidemantle Law Group P.C.
Hope Tschopik Schneider
Tom and Elayne Techentin
Betsey Tyler
R&D (Under $500)
Joan Aarestad
Edward R. Bosley
David and Judy Brown
Shirley Burt
Betye Burton
Tink Cheney
Walter and Sara Cochran-Bond
Diane and Michael Cornwell
Carolyn Cutler
Susanna Dadd and James Griffith
Kitty Dillavou
David Doody
David Ebershoff
Joel Edstrom and Margaret Adams
El Portal Restaurant
Nancy and Raymond Guth
Ann Hassett and Bob Niemack
James Hayes and Catherine Keig
Joseph Henry and Stanley Gordon
Brenda Hurst
Tom Jacobson
Dr. Alice J. Key
Bonnie Ledyard
Tom and Joyce Leddy
Linda LeMoncheck and Jed Shafer
Roger Loomis and Andrea KovacsLoomis
Jane and Barry McCullough
Ralph Miles
Althea Miller
Annamarie V. Mitchell
R&D (Under $500)
Roger and Gloria Mullendore
Ramone Muñoz
John Poer
Chris and Katie Poole
Clifford Present
Edward Rada
Steve Roden
Dr. William Schubert
Dorothy Scully
Michael Seel
David Spiro
Robin and Ben Stafford
George and Gretel Stephens
Robin Stever
Terry and Maria Tornek
Vroman’s Bookstore
Pam and Barton Wald
Richard Walther, CPA
Bill and Janet Wells
Jeff Cain is an artist, designer, and most recently the curator
of After Victor Papanek: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, a
group exhibition at The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena
that explores the legacy of the late designer, Victor Papanek.
His studio, the Shed Research Institute (SRI) is committed to
creating work that provokes public dialog around the natural,
technological, and cultural forces that shape our landscape and
sense of place. PAC Director of Artist Programs Robert Crouch
met with Cain to learn more about this intriguing initiative.
Robert Crouch: What inspired you to create Shed Research
Institute? What were some of the possible social-economic or
cultural conditions that you may have responded to at the time?
Jeff Cain: I always liked the idea of an interdisciplinary practice
that would cross over art, design, and curatorial processes.
Many artists often have broad activities that support their
practice, but often those roles are written out of the narrative
of their work. I really needed to carve out a studio identity and
economic model that would support those interests, and the SRI
was the beginning of that.
SHED
RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
RC: What projects are being developed for SRI? Do you see it
as a long term project, and if so, what would you like to see it
become in the next 3-5 years?
JC: The Shed is a long-term project, but its focus may change
over time. The Papanek show at the Armory and its summer
programs will result in an unusual print-on-demand publication.
This sort of multidisciplinary and collaborative investigation
into an important but “hidden-in-plain-sight” designer is a good
example of a SRI project. The summer’s priorities will consist
of some Shed upgrades that will allow for outdoor fabrication
space and outdoor meeting space for workshops and meals.
If things are finished on time, I hope to present a project with
artist Dewey Ambrosino.
For the next year, I am interested in pairing artists with
designers to make creative research publications and websites.
For this presentation model to work, I will need to increasingly
rely on production funding and creative matchmaking between
like-minded folks. In the next five years, I would like for the Shed
to raise funds, build an audience, and to gain more collaborators
who can help propel projects forward.
IN-KIND SUPPORT
Elks USA
Guest Haus Residency
Hunt Design
Metro
Project X Foundation
Scheidemantle Law Group P.C.
Typecraft, Inc.
Gifts received 2014 – 2015
EMERGE PROJECT:
Jeff Cain, What Can You Build With A House?, 2014
Documentation of a public design/build performance with all the lumber it takes to build
a house, dimensions variable.
Like Victor Papanek, I have always been interested in DIY
culture, vernacular design, and products that are userassembled. The “shed” is both a literal and figurative home to
the SRI. Physically, it is a typical prefabricated barn kit that
I installed in my backyard as a temporary structure. Sheds,
garages, and utilitarian spaces have always been part of the
ethos of amateur backyard tinkering and design. They are
practical and private spaces where people are able to spend
their own “surplus labor” to take risks and pursue impractical
projects.
RC: What is your role in SRI, or specifically, and does the notion
of “authorship” figure into your thinking?
Jeff Cain, Shelter #5, 2013
JC: I am an artist whose main priority is to create projects that
provoke public dialogues. But as a general enthusiast, there is
no way that I can pursue all of my ideas and interests. So many
artists, designers, and thinkers have really compelling ideas
that traditional venues can’t or won’t support. I see the Shed as
an institution that’s authorship comes from collaborative and
supportive framing through producing unique opportunities
for creative researchers to express those ideas and unique
experiences for the public to engage in research dialogues.
This could be through exhibitions, residencies, workshops,
charrettes, publications, editions, or websites.
Jeff Cain’s work as been featured at the Getty Museum’s
California Video exhibition, LACMA, Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, the Armory Center or the Arts, and many other
southern California art spaces. His community radio project,
RHZ Radio was a finalist for the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica
in Digital Communities. His work has been displayed
internationally in the Lisbon Architecture Triannual, Busan
Biannual, Havana Biannual, and the Center for Contemporary
Art in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has been the recipient of the California
Community Foundation Artist Fellowship.
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The following cultural organizations and businesses are
current members of Pasadena Arts Council.
Thank you for your support!
MEMBERS
Armory Center for the Arts
Claremont Graduate University
Descanso Gardens
El Portal Restaurant
Frederick Fisher Partners
The Gamble House
The Huntington Library, Art Collections
and Botanical Gardens
John Moran Auctioneers
Kidspace Children’s Museum
Lineage Dance
Light Bringer Project
Litfest Pasadena
The Music Circle
Parson’s Nose Productions
Pasadena Art Alliance
Pasadena Arts League
Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Pasadena Cultural Affairs
Pasadena Dance Theatre
The Pasadena Playhouse
Pasadena Senior Center
Pasadena Showcase for the Arts
Pasadena Society of Artists
Polytechnic School
Sacatar Foundation
San Marino League
Shumei Arts Council
Southwest Chamber Music
Studio Fuse
Theatre @ Boston Court
Theatre 360
USC Pacific Asia Museum
Vroman’s Bookstore
Westridge School
EMERGE PROJECTS
3 Days Awake
Absolute Theatre
Actual Size Los Angeles
Ammunition Theatre Company
Anthem
Argus Quartet
ARID Journal
The Art and Architecture of Home
Savings
Attraverso Il Mare
Barak Ballet
Because China Arts
Big City Forum
Blue Milagro
…but can she play?
Curious Crossroads
Day of the Dead
Dorn Dance Company
Drawing From the Inside Out
Ear Meal Webcast
Eastside International
Echo Community Arts
Emma Goldman: Love, Anarchy and
Other Affairs
Experimental Half-Hour
Fallen Fruit
Feminist Biennial
The Forrest Boys
Friends of the Rialto
General Projects
The Golden Dome School
GuestHaus Residency
homeLA
The Hope Chronicles
Iama Theater Company
Install: LA
Institute of the 21st Century.
JACK
KChung Radio
Kewa Civic Concerts
Knowledges
Light on Shadow
Litcrawl LA: NoHo
Litfest Pasadena
Little Candle Productions
Los Angeles College of Music
Scholarship Fund
Los Angeles Conducting Workshop
Los Angeles International Student Film
Festival
Louder Than Words
The Love House Project
Lovely Bouquet of Flowers/The Play
Media Done Responsibly
Melinda Sullivan Dance Project
The Mirror Mirror Project
The Mojave Project
Music Lifeboat
Native Strategies
Negation/Reception
New Short Fiction Series
Nomad Lab
Oakwood Brass Outreach Project
Opera Posse
Palomar Observatory Book Project
Pasadena Opera
Pasadena Photography Arts
Pasadena Schubertiade
Pasadena Writing Project
Piano Intensive
Portraits of the Fallen Memorial
Promusicdb
Queerfest
Ribbon of Life
Salastina Music Society
Savage Players
Scholarship Preparatory and
Performance Academy (SAPPA)
Schubertiade of Los Angeles
Sculpture For Peace
Serving Artists In Process (SAIPRO)
Sessions LA
The Shed Research Institute
Show Me The Light
SPArt
South Pasadena Arts Council
Stage Raw
Studio Yann Novak
Surrogate Gallery Projects
Ten West
Trailer Trash Project
Trop
Unconfirmed Makeshift Museum
Untethered
Vagabond
The Visitors
Volume
Waking Up Mary
Wasteland
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
What’s Next? Ensemble
Winter Light
Wisdom Arts Laboratory (WAL)
The Women’s Center for Creative Work
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AxS Festival
A citywide festival produced by the Pasadena Arts
Council that explores the nexus of artistic and
scientific inquiry, promoting experimentation and
cross-fertilization between these disciplines. AxS
Festival 2014 featured over 100 artists and partner
organizations across Pasadena.
Lucky Dragons perform at the 2014 AxS Festival
EMERGE
This program incubates individual artist projects and
emerging organizations, offering them the ability to
seek funding through fiscal sponsorship, and supporting
participants during a crucial stage. This year there are over
100 EMERGE projects, including KCHUNG Radio, Fallen
Fruit, SPArt, The Women’s Center for Creative Work, Big
City Forum, Native Strategies, and The Mojave Project.
Combined, EMERGE projects serve over 56,000 people,
including 13,000 young people, and raise over $1.1 million
annually.
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Michael Greene, President
Joan Aarestad, Vice President
Nancy Hytone Leb, Treasurer
Cynthia Bennett
Lena L. Kennedy
Wayne Hunt
Peter Knell
Dianne M. Magee
Stephen Nowlin
Steve Roden
Executive Director
Terry LeMoncheck
homeLA, a project of the EMERGE Program
Young Artist Awards
Bestows annual awards of $1,000 each to four
promising local high school students in their chosen
fields who represent exceptional talent and diversity.
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