Check out the latest Metro Art time-lapse video to watch how the spirit of L.A.’s Pacific Electric streetcars — known as the Red Cars — reemerges in the careful assembly [continue reading]
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]
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]
As we wind up the year and look forward to 2022, here’s a quick look back at a Metro Art event in the community this past fall related to [continue reading]
Just in time for today’s winter solstice, the above video shows how a celestial form slowly reveals itself as a mosaic mural is delicately pieced together for the future [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]
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]
Environmental graphic design is an important part of transit station design and here’s how we approached the job at the rebuilt Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station. The goals for the station graphics [continue reading]
The final artist we’re featuring in our four-part series Nos Vemos/We See Us, which highlights arts-based approaches to community engagement to help inform future transportation investments in the Southeast L.A. area, is Metro [continue reading]
Metro Art recently installed an artwork by Erwin Redl at the currently under construction Expo/Crenshaw Station. This new artwork — titled Inside Out – Outside In – Inside Out — spans [continue reading]
