This past fall semester, students from 26 alternative high schools across L.A. County looked to Metro Art for inspiration to create artworks about people and places of significance in their lives. Each school year, community arts [continue reading]
In case you missed it, December 1 marked the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ groundbreaking act of civil disobedience. We thought it would be a good time to share some [continue reading]
October is here already?! That means it’s once again National Arts & Humanities Month, when Metro Art showcases its many approaches to art in the transit environment – from publications to artist pop-ups to artworks for future stations and more. Check it out: To kick off the month, we are giving [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]
It’s National Arts and Humanities Month and an opportune time to consider how artwork enriches the transit environment for our customers, even from a distance. Metro seeks to provide increased and equitable [continue reading]
Artists Jamex and Einar de la Torre and George Evans have been hard at work developing designs for future artworks at Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station since their selection by a community-based art advisory group and pop-up events with riders and community members. The artworks are part of a range of improvements currently underway [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]
