LACHSA alumni are real world proof that LACHSA is worth every investment. This month's featured alum, April Showers, is a creative changemaker who continues to create opportunities and a multimillion dollar business. April, who graduated from LACHSA in 1998 from the Dance Department, is a pioneering entrepreneur and founder of Afro Unicorn, the first Black-owned, woman-founded business with a fully-licensed
Los Angeles recently lost one of its greatest visionaries. It is with heavy hearts that we also honor and remember legendary philanthropist and architect, Frank Gehry. Frank Gehry did more than design some of LA’s and the world's most iconic buildings; he reshaped the visual identity of our city and redefined how the world sees
The LACHSA family is deeply saddened by the passing of Pat Bass, affectionately known as Ms. B. She was a beloved LACHSA teaching artist, mentor, and cornerstone of our arts community. Her influence reaches across generations of LACHSA student artists, faculty, alumni, and families, having devoted over 35 years of service to LACHSA, nurturing countless voices and
Deleah graduated from LACHSA in 1998 from the Theatre program. Her love for LACHSA runs so deep that she currently has 3 children attending! We were able to ask her a few questions about LACHSA around her tremendously busy schedule: - Tell us a little about your time at LACHSA LACHSA was only 10-12 grade
By conventional standards, LACHSA Alum Kamal Sinclair has had upwards of a dozen different careers. She’s been a dancer, a producer, a choreographer, a director, a creative advisor and an executive director, among other sundry positions. Today, she is a member of the executive leadership team at the Guild of Future Architects, which is designed
Tick, Tick...Boom! is a passionate film that deals with the mental health struggles of the late Rent director Jonathan Larson as he tried to create musical theater greatness in the 1990s while working at the Moondance Diner in New York and feeling like a failure because he was about to turn 30 without having a breakthrough hit
The cast and crew, from left, Liana Bartolome, 16, Sam Karpinski, 17, Randy Damas, 18, Leilani Patao, 18, Benji Tucker, 18, Vivian Wolfson, 17, Elton McCrudden, 15, Pascal Connolly, 15, of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Louder Than Words” High School Edition, a piece for “tick, tick…Boom!” pose at LACHSA in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 30, 2021.
There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles. The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The two young men are sportily dressed and look directly at visitors; they even stand the same way. But there is one major difference. They remind me of trading
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
Donald R. Martin (1931- 2021), a highly regarded Los Angeles-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher who taught for 15 plus years at Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, passed away peacefully at his home in West Hollywood on July 4th. Mr. Martin was a student at Jefferson High in South Central LA in the
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