Mixed media artist LACHSA Alum Erin Trefry creates paintings and sculptural assemblage using found objects and materials that evoke the body in their substance (like clay) and in their history of usage (garments, textiles, and remnants and tools of the clothing trade). Her patient deconstruction and reconfiguration of these materials reinvents them away from their
Clairbourn graduates are SCHOLARS who are grounded in the values of honesty, respect, responsibility, spirituality, and citizenship. Nicole Lam was a part of the Clairbourn Class of 2017. She recently graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) as valedictorian. This fall, she will be attending Yale University, majoring in applied mathematics while
Written By Caroline Framke One of the best surprises about this year’s Emmy nominations was “Pen15” landing a nomination for outstanding comedy series. More than any other TV show about teenagers, the Hulu show — co-created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman — feels like an open window into my own past as a gawky teen with
Nyla Joseph has felt at ease in front of a camera ever since appearing in a public service announcement six years ago. But her dreams of becoming an actor were frustrated because her South Los Angeles middle school lacks a theater program. And her mother was leery of internet scams promising to turn her daughter into the
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On Tuesday, which would have been Eddie Van Halen’s 66th birthday, a giant mural of the guitar hero titled “Long Live the King” was unveiled outside the Guitar Center’s flagship store on Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Rendered by Los Angeles artist and graduate of the LA County High School for the Arts Robert Vargas, the mural
In July, The LA Times spoke with a few graduates from LACHSA anxiously preparing to enroll in university arts programs. Now, as they wrap up their first semester, we followed up to learn about their freshman experience — or, in the case of one student who decided to defer enrollment, find out if she’s content
Twenty years after becoming an LGBTQ icon for her role in But I’m a Cheerleader, the director Clea DuVall and LACHSA alum has broken records with Happiest Season, a rom-com about queer joy. Ask Clea DuVall, the director of the holiday rom-com Happiest Season, for her favorite shot from the film, and she’ll know her answer, no
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LACHSA Alum Jesse Perez appears in the San Diego Repertory Theater’s production of “JQA,” a play about John Quincy Adams. In Aaron Posner’s play, there is more than one John Quincy Adams, but only one way to ensure that American democracy endures. Sounding like a 19th-century MSNBC pundit, John Quincy Adams once complained to his
