In anticipation of the K Line opening on Friday, October 7, Metro Art is excited to reveal 14 integrated artworks at K Line stations. Customers will experience artworks that showcase [continue reading]
Metro on Saturday was joined by L.A. Mayor and Metro Board Member Eric Garcetti, Metro First Chair Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan and Crenshaw community leaders, supporters and residents to [continue reading]
Recently, Metro Art installed a new artwork by Metro-commissioned artist Mara Lonner at the future Martin Luther King Jr. Station on the Crenshaw/LAX Line. The artwork, titled Leimert Park Landscape, [continue reading]
In an upcoming Metro Art station artwork titled Only Light, Only Love, artist Shinique Smith uses the medium of glass mosaic to share the well-known and empowering words by [continue reading]
Welcome to our new series “Get to Know Your Stations,” which will highlight construction progress of the eight new Crenshaw/LAX Line stations. This week we bring you the Expo/Crenshaw and [continue reading]
Watch the video above of Metro staff piecing together parts of a large-scale glass mosaic mural. The mural will eventually be installed at the future Crenshaw/LAX Line Martin Luther King [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]
The tunnel boring machine that is digging the second of the two rail tunnels under Crenshaw Boulevard arrived at the future Martin Luther King, Jr. Station last week. The first [continue reading]
Here are five things to know about the artworks-in-progress for the future Martin Luther King Jr. Station. The artworks will contribute to a welcoming environment for future riders and connect the station to surrounding neighborhoods. Mara Lonner – Glass Entrance Pavilion Artist is a long-time Leimert Park resident and design concept was inspired while walking [continue reading]
Environmental monitors working underground at the site of the future Martin Luther King Jr. Station on the Crenshaw/LAX Line recently uncovered the bone of an animal that vanished from Southern California nearly 10,000 years ago. [continue reading]
