Headshot of Audrey Chan

...the Artists At Work program is centered around the belief that artistic labor is valuable and essential to society.

“The Care We Create,” Audrey Chan’s mural on the facade of the offices of the ACLU of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Elon Schoenholz

A colorful mural depicts many diverse faces alongside quotes. One quote from Ramona Ripston reads "if you don't have food on the table or a bed to sleep in, the promises of equity and justice are just illusions." In the center of the mural, a message reads "We need housing, education, healthcare, living wages, mental health support, community, public transit, good food, arts and culture, green spaces, more police." The last line, "more police," is crossed out with a bold black line.

Photo: Yogan Muller, courtesy of Maru Garcia

Headshot of Maru Garcia

Regeneration has a capacity to heal the earth, heal our communities, and heal ourselves.

Pile 2 Patio, a mulch sculpture and community project, part of Maru García’s exhibition Radical Propagations / Propagaciones Radicales at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California. Photo courtesy of 18th Street Arts Center

Three individuals work on mulching outside. One individual is using a shovel and another is holding a burlap sack.

Headshot of Simone Immanuel 

I want to help confirm the dreams of others, while gathering and hearing every voice.

Simone Immanuel (center) in “7 Minutes” at HERE Arts Center in New York City. Photo: Julieta Cervantes

Five performers sit around a table during an on-stage performance. Audience members watch in the background.

Artists at Work

“Vivarium: A Place of Life,” one of Artists At Work Fellow Maru García’s past exhibitions. Photo: courtesy of the artist

A close-up shot on a mossy beach shows a person in the foreground laying on their side in a clear bubble.

A (Re)generation of Artists

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 

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