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Teaching Artists As Essential Workers: Respect, Collaboration, And Heft

For many young people, teaching artists (like their arts teachers) are the first people who certified their passion for writing, or their tentative steps to being a dancer. A teaching artist may have escorted them out of the neighborhood, onto a bus, and downtown to their first-ever play or lent them a world class trumpet to audition for a jazz summer camp (Wolf & Rodriguez Pineda, 2019). Teaching artists are walking embodiments of the possibility that

2020-04-29T20:01:24+00:00

Theatre In The Time Of The Pandemic

Moving from big stages to little screens, artists reflect on what really matters “Since the age of five, I’ve been a storyteller,” said Josefina Lopez, author of the play Real Women Have Curves (later produced as a film starring America Ferrera), and founder of the CASA 0101 Theater in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Eastern Los Angeles. “And when I was

2020-04-22T22:32:32+00:00

LACHSA Alum Christina Quarles Paints the Complicated, Intimate Moments When We Feel like Ourselves

See full article by Claire Voon at Artsy Quarles, 35, approaches figuration through a steadfast embrace of ambiguity—a style that has contributed to her fast ascendence as one of the most compelling painters working today. She has been included in major institutional shows from the New Museum’s “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” in

2020-04-21T16:26:33+00:00

Premiere episode of Live with Carnegie Hall features Angel Blue

Renowned soprano and LACHSA alum`02 Angel Blue (The Metropolitan Opera’s Porgy & Bess), joined TonyAward-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County, The Last Five Years), and acclaimed theater, TV, and film actor Tituss Burgess for the launch of Live with Carnegie Hall. Host Frank DiLella debuted a new online series designed to

2020-04-16T20:17:37+00:00

Monterey Jazz Festival Announces LACHSA Vocal Jazz as Finalists at 2020 Next Generation Jazz Festival

Congratulations to the LACHSA Vocal Jazz Ensemble directed by Pat Bass, runners up in the 2020 Next Generation Jazz Festival High School Vocal Ensemble Division. 2020 will mark the ensemble's 13th appearance at Monterey Jazz Festival. The 2020 Virtual Next Generation Jazz Festival was a reimagining of the 50-year-old event in the age of COVID-19, taking place

2020-04-16T16:41:23+00:00

LACHSA Wins Most Awards at YoungArts Competition

YoungArts is a national competition recognizing student artists for exceptional achievement - and we are so proud to announce that LACHSA had the most number of winners int the country this year: 22 students were recognized! Our students' achievement shows that an extraordinary, public arts education is possible. Thank you so much to everyone who

2019-12-06T18:54:00+00:00

Alum Zoey Deutsch calls LACHSA “life-affirming”

LACHSA Alum Zoey Deutsch was recently featured on the cover of Cosmopolitan and had this to say about LACHSA: “Being surrounded by a bunch of other like-minded people who also knew what they wanted to do at a very young age was super life-affirming and inspiring” - check it out! https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a29193342/zoey-deutch-cover-story-anxiety-the-politician/

2019-10-09T17:09:52+00:00
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