New limited edition “Art on TAP” cards featuring artworks commissioned by Metro Art are launching at select stations this week. The three new artwork designs are Blue Sights by LP Ǽkili Ross, Roosters by Daniel Barajas and Legacy by Bodeck Luna. The artworks are part of a series of rider portraits created [continue reading]
In collaboration with Metro’s On the Move Riders Program, Metro Art invites the public to an upcoming series of in-person art and architectural tours of Union Station. The tours take [continue reading]
A panel of nationally recognized curators, local arts professionals and community members from the Purple Line Extension Section 2 and 3 project areas has selected artists to create site-specific, integrated artworks for the future Wilshire/Rodeo, Century City/Constellation, Westwood/UCLA and Westwood/VA Hospital stations. The diverse range of accomplished artists includes: Eddie [continue reading]
The Pan African Film & Arts Festival hosts its 30th annual festival through May 1 with a hybrid of in-theater screenings and a live ArtFest. The screenings take place at the Cinemark at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Leimert Park. Metro is a proud sponsor of the event. Above [continue reading]
Attention high school students with roots in the Crenshaw District, Inglewood, Westchester, the LAX community and adjacent areas! Metro invites students grades 9-12 to submit artwork that celebrates the unique character of the neighborhoods along the upcoming Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project corridor. <<CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE CONTEST>> Eight artworks, identified [continue reading]
A new exhibition, We Are. . . Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists, is now on view in Union Station’s Passageway Art Gallery. Each rider portrait has a story that is personal [continue reading]
Metro’s Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station Improvement Project is providing significant upgrades to the fourth busiest station in the Metro system, including two newly commissioned artworks. With the state-of-the-art transit hub almost complete, we’re [continue reading]
Sonder, an artwork featuring community portraits by Metro commissioned artist Kenturah Davis, was recently installed at Downtown Inglewood Station, currently under construction. Fabricated of porcelain enamel steel panels, the artwork [continue reading]
Artists Kuniharu Yoshida and Susu Attar, along with the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) and Metro Art, are creating temporary construction banner artworks for the Metro Center Project [continue reading]
Watch this video to hear artist Sonia Romero speak about her creative process and the making of “Hecho a Mano,” a new artwork at Mariachi Plaza station. Learn more about the artwork in this previous Source post and [continue reading]
