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CIVIC ART

Since 2004 the Los Angeles County Arts Commission Civic Art Program has implemented over 40 civic art projects for a variety of County facilities. Projects range in size and are managed by a skilled staff dedicated to facilitating innovative projects while providing access to high-quality artistic experiences for the residents of Los Angeles County.



Artists Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet designed a ceramic tile mural for the front entrance of the Avalon Lifeguard Paramedic Headquarters, which provides emergency services to Catalina Island. The building was dedicated on April 30, 2010.



Students from Probation Camp Scudder participated in a 14 week art class with artist Michael Massenburg in which they designed and painted a mural for the Camp’s cafeteria.

 

The lobby of the new Southwest Building and Safety Permit Office now features Drop-in Distraction, a suspended sculpture by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues of Ball-Nogues Studio.


The art glass wall by Anne Marie Karlsen at the new Lawndale Library has been named one of the Best Public Art Projects in U.S. by Americans for the Arts. Karlsen's Subdivisions is among forty works cited as "the most exemplary, innovative permanent or temporary public art works created or debuted in 2008" and was selected from more than 300 entries nationwide.

For more information about the Civic Art Program, contact civicart@arts.lacounty.gov.