Teaching Artist Opportunity SPARC is seeking qualified Teaching Artists to join our Arts Education team! Teaching Artists will support 10-week visual and/or performing arts workshops for 6th-12th grade students. The SPARC arts education program leverages the power of the arts to explore notions of culture, identity, community and social justice. Apply online today!
By Bella Smith August 1, 2019 BEFORE: Endangered Species by Emily Winters before 2019 Restoration AFTER: Endangered Species by Emily Winters after 2019 Restoration Right off the Venice Boardwalk, mixed amongst a plethora of walls spray-painted as Instagram backdrops and the few historic murals that survived, is a wall with a story to tell. The […]
In December of 2018, SPARC hosted a three-day art build in support of UTLA, the United Teachers of Los Angeles union. We partnered with Self Help Graphics and artists including Aise Born, Angelica Becerra, Joe Brusky, Paul Kjelland, Carolyn Knight, Nicolas Lambert, Daniel Martinez, Erin Yoshi of Trust Your Struggle, Ernesto Yerena, Leila Lujan, Louis […]
SPARC welcomed fifty parents and children from the Garment Worker Center and IDEPSCA’s Mujeres en Accion on May 25th, 2019 to discuss how arts activism is a key part of campaigns and movements for social change. After a talk by SPARC Executive Director, Carlos Rogel, families worked with printmaker Kay Brown to create monoprint signs […]
Join us on Saturday, July 27th from 5-7pm for “Big Brothers at SPARC,” an evening of poetry, music, and drinks in celebration of historic gay bars in Los Angeles! This event is inspired by our current gallery exhibition: Tomboys by Christina Schlesinger. Tomboys features a vibrant collection of artworks that examine intersections between gender, […]
Down the Rabbit Hole explores the symbolic language of images from a Mexican feminist perspective. Symbolic language has the ability to express abstract ideas that are otherwise difficult to translate in direct, analytical speech or text. This language of images is felt more so than it is heard, and honors the realm of instinct, dreams, […]
Mercado at SPARC is a premier outdoor marketplace during the Get Around, a 3.5 mile art walk between Venice and Mar Vista on Saturday, July 13th from 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Mercado at SPARC will feature local vendors, artists, and makers all day! Join us to shop local and discover artisanal goods and crafts. […]
Emily Winters’ iconic mural on the Venice Beach Boardwalk at Ocean Front Walk and Park Ave, ‘Endangered Species’ will be restored next week by SPARC’s Mural Rescue team with support from the Venice Arts Council Endangered Art Fund, local Park Place residences, and the W. S. Scharff Foundation. Muralist and activist Emily Winters painted the […]
