On Indigenous People’s Day, William Warrener, Lead Producer of Arts in Action, invited three recent graduates and a current USC student to talk about how they use their respective art forms to advance racial justice.
Elementary students dance like no one’s watching as they step into their virtual studio, taking part in a key program that’s expanding during a tough time.
The University Park Slow Jams project – made up of a coalition of USC Arts in Action, USC Price School, USC Kid Watch, Los Angeles Walks and Public Matters – strives to draw attention to the traffic violence problem and generate solutions through policy, community building and artistic expression.
Almost two months after the first Skid Row arts packages were organized, USC Arts in Action and the Skid Row Arts Alliance are ready to build upon the success of their first effort and begin distributing the second round.
Students from the USC Roski School of Art and Design and a group of arts organizations including Arts in Action and the Skid Row Arts Alliance have started a project to produce emergency arts care packages for Skid Row residents who’ve lost an essential part of their daily lives: arts programming.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, students sit in a circle inside Shrine Auditorium to write and rehearse lines with formerly incarcerated people, rehearsing for “Performing Policy: The Justice Project,” an open-ended play that discusses criminal justice conflicts that will be performed in April.
