A project focused on the Crenshaw/Slauson area was selected from a pool of over 130 applications nationwide for a creative placemaking grant from Transportation for America’s Cultural Corridor Consortium program. Led by the local non-profit LA Commons, with technical assistance provided by Metro Art, the grant will fund the gathering [continue reading]
A new exhibition in Union Station, Journeys: LA Communities Through the Eyes of Artists, and a special series of artist-led tours will kick off a year of activities to celebrate [continue reading]
Metro Art recently hosted a free family workshop to help inspire artworks for Phase 1 of the Purple Line Extension project. Community members were invited to tell us what they [continue reading]
Students from the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project area have been mentored by artist Carlson Hatton for more than a year as he crafted artwork designs for Hyde Park Station. Last week [continue reading]
The artist George Evans and artist team of Jamex and Einar de la Torre participated in two Metro pop-up events at Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station, sharing their past artworks and interacting with riders and community members. These conversations are intended to help inform the artists’ artwork designs for the station, which [continue reading]
Curious about the artwork design for the future Metro rail maintenance facility in the downtown Arts District? Ever wonder how artists make the leap from their studios to public realm? [continue reading]
Meet artist Shinique Smith as her collage artwork titled “Only Light, Only Love” is fabricated for Martin Luther King Jr. Station. High resolution scans and scaled match prints of Smith’s [continue reading]
From a quintessential neo-noir science fiction film screening to a celebration fit for National Poetry Month, here’s your guide to all the Metro Art events happening in April. Did we mention [continue reading]
The latest in our series of artworks celebrating neighborhoods in Los Angeles County features Eagle Rock and was created by Alexis Disselkoen. As part of our “Through the Eyes of Artists” [continue reading]
Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues of Ball-Nogues Studio were selected to create an artwork for the Maintenance of Way Building (MOW) and Jacob Hashimoto was selected to develop an artwork [continue reading]
