culture — Civicas

Beautify Earth - Civic Love

Beautify Earth - Civic Love: Civic Love is a new way to “get involved.” It is based on taking action, and working together to help you achieve your ideas for your neighborhood.

2Elana AlipingJune 28, 2018art, community

PSA Supply Co

PSA Supply Co.: PSA is public service apparel, a new platform for ideas, inspiration, and action — brought to you by Upworthy and GOOD.

2Elana AlipingJune 27, 2018culture, media, justice

Center for Active Design - Assembly: Civic Design Guidelines

Center for Active Design - Assembly: Civic Design Guidelines: The Center for Active Design is thrilled to announce the release of the Assembly: Civic Design Guidelines, a groundbreaking playbook for creating well-designed and well-maintained public spaces as a force for building trust and healing divisions in local communities.

2Elana AlipingJune 27, 2018art, architecture, culture

Social Housing – New European Projects

Center for Architecture - Social Housing – New European Projects: Across Europe, a new generation of architecture practices are transforming affordable housing. Responding to continued need, changing clients, and new funding methods, architects are once again addressing how homes can be delivered at scale while piloting new methods to achieve high standards of design.

2Elana AlipingJune 27, 2018art, architecture, affordable housing

Just City Lab

Just City Lab: The Just City Lab investigates the definition of urban justice and the just city and examines how design and planning contribute to the conditions of justice and injustice in cities, neighborhoods and the public realm.

Elana AlipingJune 8, 2018art, education

For Freedoms

For Freedoms: For Freedoms is a platform for greater participation in the arts and in civil society. We produce exhibitions, installations, public programs, and billboard campaigns to advocate for inclusive civic participation.

2Elana AlipingJune 8, 2018art, education, politics

Get Lit

Get Lit: Words Ignite brings classic poetry to the streets and street poetry into the classrooms. By engaging youth in great works of literature, in-school and beyond, teens engage in their own futures and unearth their potential.

2Elana AlipingJune 7, 2018poetry, youth, education

11:11 A Collective Creative

11:11 A Collective Creative: To provide a collaborative and educational multidisciplinary environment for artists and the public. We support collaboration between artists and their community and facilitate the creation of art in areas where there is little to no access to the arts.

Elana AlipingJune 7, 2018

CreativeTime

Creative Time: We are committed to presenting important art for our times and engaging broad audiences that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.

2Chris AlexakisMarch 5, 2018art, affordable housing, education, media, non-profit, in-justice

ACUTEART

ACUTEART: is the world’s first Virtual Reality arts platform, a gallery without walls that lets you experience the cutting edge of interactive art anywhere in the world.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 20, 2018art, career, tech, business

New York Live Arts

New York Live Arts: is a center of diverse artists devoted to body-based investigation that transcends barriers between and within communities led by world-renowned artist Bill T. Jones.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 16, 2018art, career, education, media, non-profit

flowproject.la

flowproject.la: is a curated resource guide to connecting partnerships, place-making & programs that cultivate and sustain beautiful, healthy civic environments founded by Cynthia Hirschhorn.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018art, environment, education, non-profit, l.a.

Community Arts Resources

Community Arts Resources: We are a diverse collective of creatively minded planners and producers engaged in the changing dynamics of the urban environment. Based in Los Angeles.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018art, non-profit, l.a.

George Kaiser Family Foundation

GKFF’s arts initiatives: Foundation’s investments in Tulsa’s Arts District and Greenwood neighborhood create an environment where artists can flourish.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018foundation, art

Arts Datathon

Arts Datathon: will bring together local arts agencies with artists, arts administrators, educators, students, community advocates, researchers, and professionals in culture, museums and urban planning to address the question of improving access to the arts.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018art, career, education, non-profit

Americans For The Arts

Americans for the Arts Action Fund: is at the forefront of advancing the arts in America

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018art, politics, education, foundation, l.a.

L.A. Coalition

L.A. Coalition: administers a $4.1 million grants program that funds more than 350 nonprofit arts organizations annually.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018career, art, foundation, l.a.

imagination.org

Imagination.org: mission is to find, foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in children around the world to raise a new generation of innovators and problem solvers who have the tools they need to build the world they imagine.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018foundation, art, education

madworkshop

MADWORKSHOP: has collaborated with the University of Southern California School of Architecture (USC) to establish the Homeless Studio.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018art, career, affordable housing, non-profit

2016-2017 MAYNE | NOW INSTITUTE

2016-2017 MAYNE | NOW INSTITUTE: education based out of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) that advances experimentation and cross-discipline collaboration among professors, students, and industry partners to expand the boundaries of architectural practice.

2Chris AlexakisFebruary 13, 2018art, career, education, business, affordable housing