Before You Now: Artist Talk and Collage Workshop with Kalli Arte Collective
Saturday, August 23, 2025
2:00pm – 4:30pm
As part of Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture, Kalli Arte Collective will lead an intergenerational hands-on collage workshop inviting participants to explore overlapping themes of convening (with others) and conceptualizing (family and self) through the creative process of art-making. Extending the exhibition’s themes beyond the gallery, this workshop offers a reflective space for participants to consider their sense of self and how it connects to community, family, and place—while creating new work grounded in their personal experiences.
This workshop invites participants to create their own collage art using silk screen patterns and designs created by Kalli Arte collective. Each participant will have a chance to cut and assemble their own art piece using the provided materials.
This program is free and open to the public.
About the Artists
Kalli Arte is a family artists collective based in Boyle Heights. Kalli Arte was started by two self-taught artists: Adriana Carranza, Alfonso Aceves and their four children. Kalli Arte is dedicated to speaking directly to their community and beyond through printmaking, gallery exhibitions, art installations, community workshops and marketplaces.
Open Call for Photo Submissions
Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective
Entry deadline: August 29 at 11:59pm (PST).
The Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), in preparation for the upcoming Fall 2025 exhibition Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective, formally invites community members to contribute images featuring Ofelia Esparza and/or her work. A Chicana artist, altarista (altar maker) and educator from East Los Angeles, Esparza is a sixth-generation altar maker and is recognized for her work with Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG), specifically for her community ofrendas (altars/shrines) for Dia de Los Muertos.
We invite you to share images that showcase the vast and personal impact Esparza and her art have contributed to East Los Angeles and beyond. Emphasis on submissions includes Esparza and Day of the Dead photographs in Los Angeles since the late 1970s, her printmaking years at Self Help Graphics from the 1980s–2000s, or personal photographs with friends and loved ones, but all material content is welcome.
Selected submissions may be displayed in the forthcoming exhibition and/or accompanying publication. Please click the link below for full details.
EAI Grantees in Action…
Check out these weekend events hosted by EAI grant recipients
Always Running: Photography by Luis J. Rodriguez
Closing reception on Friday, August 8, 2025 from 6pm to 8pm at @plazadelaraza
"Della" Film Screening
Saturday, August 9, 2025 at the @lomafilmfest at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Levitt Pavilion’s free summer concert series featuring
“Afro Funke' Africa”
Saturday, August 9, 2025 @levittla
Women Who Submit (@womenwhosubmit) Presents: “Bookseller Tips for Writers”
Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 10am on Zoom
Show Your Creativity
Hedy Torres
Saturday, August 02, 2025
2pm to 4pm
Announcements
Deadline Mar 3: 2025 NALAC Leadership Institute Open Call for Applicants: NALAC Leadership Institute (NLI)
Arts Funding / Resources
- CA Arts Council: Home Page - California Arts Council
- LA County Department of Arts & Culture: www.lacountyarts.org
- City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department: www.culturela.org
- Explore our #ArtGoesOn
- Californians for The Art
- COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources
- California State Employment Development Department COVID-19 Page
Fiscal Sponsors
Below are some art organizations that have previously served as Fiscal Agents to EAI grant applicants:
Emmanuel Deleage
Casa 0101
emmanuel@casa0101.org
Sara Mijares
Mundo Maya
sarazmijares@gmail.com
Kathleen Gallegos
Studio 50 Studio
ave50studio@sbcglobal.net
Juan Escobedo
TELASOFA (The East LA Society of Film & Art)
juan@telasofa.org
Samantha Curley
Level Ground Collective
samantha@levelground.co
A collective homage and salute to the iconic Roberto Chavez, part of a courageous generation of postwar Mexican-American artists who defied the zeitgeist of their era and painted their people out of invisibility. His art was the spark that fueled the Chicano Renaissance of the 1960s, and generations of artists stand on his shoulders. Rest in Power.
Roberto Chavez, Iconic Chicano Artist of the Postwar Era, Dies at 92
#Chicanoartists #eastsideartists #eastside #eastsideartsinitiative
East LA Film Festival
October 5th 2024
10am to 10pm
California Arts Council Seeks Arts Providers
at State Correctional Institutions
Request for proposals will promote healing and well-being through creativity
The California Arts Council (CAC) is now accepting proposals from organizations interested in providing arts services promoting healing and well-being as part of California’s Arts in Corrections (AIC) program. Organizations of all sizes are encouraged to submit programming proposals for up to $86,000 per institution that broaden the art and cultural disciplines of institution workshops.
The Request for Proposals (RFP) seeks to contract with new, current, and returning Coordinating Organizations to provide AIC programming that promotes healing and well-being through creativity to replace expiring contracts.
The final deadline for submitting proposals is Monday, October 14, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.
2025 Aam Annual Meeting & Museumexpo
May 6-9, 2025 • Los Angeles
The Call For Proposals is Now Open
Take the stage at the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in Los Angeles May 6-9. The AAM 2025 call for proposals is now open!
Submit your best proposal by learning more about the 2025 theme, Museums & Trust, as well as the session tracks and formats, and tips for how to craft a great proposal.