1019 E. 4th Place
Los Angeles, CA 90013
February 13 & 14, 2016, 11am-7pm
Special Preview: February 12, 2016, 6-9pm
For more information: http://nomadicdivision.org/exhibition/rob-pruitts-flea-market/
Fred Segal gives 10% of all grantLOVE sales to support the after-school programs of Heart of Los Angeles (Visual Arts) and homeless youth being served at My Friends’ Place. grantLOVE and Fred Gives are fiscally sponsored by our partner the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
About Fred Gives
Fred Gives, as part of Fred Segal’s philanthropic mission, aims to support the next generation of fashion designers, artists, and makers through education and cultural enrichment. Through this initiative, they strive to work with like-minded partners who create opportunities for underserved communities.
About grantLOVE
grantLOVE is an art project started by artist Alexandra Grant in 2008 to help raise awareness and money for various art and social nonprofits through the gift and sale of collaborative artworks and editions made with Grant’s LOVE symbol.
About the Entertainment Industry Foundation
The grantLOVE Fund and Fred Gives are funds of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. EIF is a Charity Navigator 4-Star Charity that meets all 20 BBB Charity Standards and carries the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency. www.eifoundation.org
We're so pleased to announce the new LOVE Record Print by Alexandra Grant, available for purchase here through MOCA!
Working with MOCA Store and Econopress in Oakland, California, Alexandra Grant designed and produced a grantLOVE print to benefit the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in a signed and numbered edition of 100.
By Alexandra Grant. Printed by Econopress.
We're so pleased to announce an exhibition of grantLOVE Project's work at Saint Joesph's Arts Society's Apothecary of Ideas, on view through July 15, 2023.
Saint Joseph's Apothecary of Ideas will house a capsule collection of works from the past 14 years of the grantLOVE Project, including a limited edition wallpaper made in collaboration with Saint Joseph’s and grantLOVE.
Prints, bags, jewelry, artworks, and the LOVE Book will be available to purchase on-site—and, as always, are also available to purchase here on our online store. You can also buy online to pick up your order at Saint Joseph's during the exhibition.
Come see this grantLOVE collection in this gorgeous space! Saint Joseph's is open to the public from 10 am to 5 pm Monday through Thursday.
Saint Joseph’s Arts Society
1401 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
info@saintjosephsartsociety.com
“Alexandra Grant’s new coffee table book examines what it means to be a civic artist” – the LOVE Book is featured in the Los Angeles Times by Deborah Vankin
“For a book about philanthropy, ‘LOVE’ is surprisingly vibrant and lighthearted. It has multiple inserts, including a comic by Grant, pull-out temporary tattoos, a sticker and even a cookie recipe.The book chronicles nearly every grantLOVE project, spanning prints, paintings, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, clothing and architectural endeavors, with partners such as the nonprofits Project Angel Food and Heart of Los Angeles. To date, the project has generated more than $300,000 for U.S. and international nonprofits. Which may not seem like an earthshaking sum of money over a decade and a half. But as author Roxane Gay points out in the book’s foreword, the project may be small, but ‘it is mighty, with incredible reach, a powerful mission, and a ferocious heart.’”
You can read the full article here.
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“This book is a reminder that while the world is a mess and getting messier, we are still here. We are creative. We are connected. And if we look in the right places, it is clear that a great many of us are blessed with an abundance of love. grantLOVE is one such example, and I hope it encourages every person who reads this to ask themselves how they will adopt an ethos of abundance in whatever ways they can.” – Roxane Gay
What is love? In LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project, artist Alexandra Grant’s exploration of that question is documented through a retrospective of her journey engaging in civic art. In 2008, Grant began making editions of her art based on the concept of love and her trademarked LOVE symbol to raise money for arts projects and nonprofit organizations. This one-of-a-kind philanthropic art experiment became the grantLOVE project.
In LOVE Grant explores how fundraising and art can effectively intersect by partnering with other artists, makers, and customers to support art projects and nonprofits. This gorgeous book offers a comprehensive history of the grantLOVE project—complete with paintings, prints, sculptures, textiles, jewelry, and architecture— and provides a visual meditation on what “love” is, as conceived by Grant and the numerous collaborators showcased.
Compiling more than fourteen years of grantLOVE works and collaborations with partners including Oscar de la Renta, andSons Chocolatiers, Spanish illustration duo Cachetejack, nonprofit organization Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), and more. LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project invites readers to reflect on the confluence of philanthropy and the arts and celebrate building a community around the roles of love and empathy in contemporary art and culture.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles–based artist who—through an exploration of the use of text and language in various media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, and photography—probes ideas of translation, identity, dislocation, and social responsibility. She is the creator of the grantLOVE project, which has raised funds for arts-based nonprofits, and her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions across the United States and abroad.
Roxane Gay is a professor, editor, and the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, and Difficult Women. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Alma Ruiz is a curator and senior fellow at the Center for Business & Management of the Arts, Claremont Graduate University. Ruiz has curated numerous exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and internationally.
Cassandra Coblentz is a curator whose practice champions the artistic process and forefronts creating meaningful, engaging experiences for audiences with works of art.
Eman Alami, a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, is a creative whose work explores the intersections between creative writing, philosophy, and visual art.
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This year's freshstART online fundraiser will benefit the Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Visual Arts!
Tickets are available here: FRESHSTART2021.givesmart.com
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Visual Arts
HOLA's Visual Arts Program provides quality programming to youth who have little or no access to such classes inside or outside of school. HOLA's visual arts curriculum is designed and delivered by innovative teaching artists, college professors and passionate volunteer artists who combine their efforts to provide intensive arts education for underserved youth. With the onset of COVID-19, the work of HOLA Visual Arts has become more critical than ever by creating a sense of connection, belonging and positive expression during a time of uncertainty and turmoil. HOLA is providing more than a dozen weekly virtual art classes, a monthly Art Club, virtual field trips to museums around the city, academic tutoring, family case management and connection to basic resources. FRESH START's donation to HOLA will help underwrite these important services for young people across Los Angeles. Every $100 raised will help HOLA provide an art kit and several hours of professional teaching artist time to a participating student. Now more than ever, HOLA's belief that art can be a powerful agent of social change is deserving of our support.
Facilities: HOLA's Visual Arts Program is located in the historic Wilshire Royale building. The space houses an extensive art library, media lab and three studios and boasts large street-side windows, providing ample opportunity for the students to connect to the community.
See more at: heartofla.org
FRESH START
Founded in 2001, fresh stART, the semi-annual fundraising event of the McCall Family Foundation, is an art exhibition and sale with two distinct goals. Our primary goal is to fund programs that provide arts-related therapies to children in underserved communities in Los Angeles. Secondly, fresh stART strives to stimulate the arts by providing potential collectors with a personal connection to both established and emerging artists, returning a portion of all sales to our participating artists.
See more at: freshstartart.org
]]>Artist and grantLOVE founder Alexandra Grant is happy to announce a new collaboration with designer Amber Sakai. The new LOVE Candle Holder features Alexandra’s iconic LOVE symbol and is paired with Amber Sakai’s AMOUR candle.
The LOVE Candle Holder is 3 ¾” tall and 3” in diameter, made of 24K gold-plated brass. Amber Sakai’s AMOUR candle is geranium, cypriol, rose, leather, oud, musk, sandalwood, patchouli and cedar in a soy wax blend. The burn time is 60 hours.
The LOVE Candle Holder and AMOUR candle is available for purchase for $165 on www.grantlove.com and www.ambersakai.com and select retailers such as Studio C and Just One Eye in Southern California.
The grantLOVE project will donate a portion of proceeds from the sale of LOVE Candle Holder and the AMOUR candle to its arts and non-profit partners.
Amber Sakai is a Los Angeles-based designer, philanthropist, and a 9th generation Californian. Her eponymous lifestyle brand reflects her interests in exploration, growth, and wisdom. www.ambersakai.com
Founded by Alexandra Grant in 2009, grantLOVE is an artist-owned and operated enterprise that produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artists and arts nonprofits. www.grantlove.com
Purchase the LOVE Candle Holder and AMOUR Candle here.
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Hartjess is Jessica Van Abeelen Melker based in the Netherlands. Jessica makes upcycled tote bags from an array of different fabrics, from used jeans to table cloths. A combination of new and used material ensures green production methods and overall quality and durability.
We are so pleased that Jessica is making these special bags in collaboration with grantLOVE! Every grantLOVE x Hartjess tote bag is unique and handmade.
grantLOVE: How did you learn to sew?
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See Jessica's grantLOVE x Hartjess bags here.
This collaboration, comprising four screen printed editions of 100, is printed by Le Raclet studio in Berlin. Each print reveals a different playful interpretation of the LOVE symbol -- Love Chakras, Team Power, L.L.L. (Lunar Love Lady), and Rainbow Mood, 2020.
These prints are available for pre-order now for $150 each, and will be shipped December 5th (for $15 within the US and Europe). A suite of all 4 images is available for $600, with the edition numbers 1-25. In addition, pick-up will be available at SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin) and the Orange County Museum of Art (Costa Mesa, CA) in early December.
Cachetejack are Nuria Bellver and Raquel Fanjul, a Spanish freelance illustration duo with a nomadic lifestyle working together since 2011. Their illustration universe is full of colors, energy, humour and irony. www.cachetejack.com
SAVVY Contemporary | The laboratory of form-ideas was founded in 2009 by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung as an art space, discursive platform, and a space for conviviality. Run by a team of over 30 people from over 23 countries, SAVVY situates itself at the threshold of notions of the West and non-West to understand and deconstruct them. savvy-contemporary.com
Le Raclet is a screen print studio located in the heart of Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. Founded by artist printmaker Bera in 2007, the studio specializes in hand printed silkscreen editions on paper. www.leraclet.com
grantLOVE is an artist-owned and operated enterprise that produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artists and arts non-profits. www.grantlove.com
]]>Opening on October 15th, 2020, the grantLOVE x OCMA pop-up shop at OCMA is a fundraising project to bring more and diverse artists into the museum’s permanent collection. Profits from the grantLOVE x OCMA pop-up shop will go towards the grantLOVE x OCMA Fund for Artists, allowing the museum to acquire one or multiple works created by women-identified or non-binary artists from California and the Pacific Rim.
grantLOVE is a fundraising and friendraising project by artist Alexandra Grant that produces limited edition works on paper, clothing, and jewelry. Profits from the sales of these items support different non-profits and charitable projects. The grantLOVE x OCMA pop-up shop is a gesture of solidarity with Grant’s fellow artists, creating economic and career opportunities for others through the sale of her own work. The grantLOVE x OCMA pop-up shop is held in conjunction with Grant’s exhibition at OCMA, Telepathy is One Step Further Than Empathy, and both are organized by Senior Curator Cassandra Coblentz.
For a list of the products available at the pop-up shop, visit: www.grantlove.com/collections/grantlove-x-ocma-pop-up-shop
The grantLOVE x OCMA pop-up shop will be open during regular museum hours: Thursday 11am to 8pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 6pm.* Items can be purchased in the museum or ordered online at www.grantlove.com for pick-up at OCMA. Please note that all online orders will take about 3 days for processing before pick-up and may only be picked up during open hours.
*December 2020 update: OCMA is currently closed to the public due to COVID-19 regulations, but orders are still available for pick-up. The grantLOVE & OCMA teams will be in touch with customers ordering for pickup to schedule a pickup window.
All sales of Oscar de la Renta prints will benefit the grantLOVE x OCMA Fund for Artists, both online and in the pop-up shop. In addition, any purchases made at www.grantlove.com shipping to or coming from Orange County will also go towards the fund. (If you would like your purchase made from outside of Orange County to support the grantLOVE x OCMA Fund for Artists, please add a note to your online order.)
Thank you for your support!
For any questions, please email hello@grantlove.com.
]]>Los Angeles, April 2020 – Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant first introduced her LOVE necklace in 2009 and now, over 10 years later, is pleased to share her new design. Based on her trademarked LOVE symbol, the LOVE necklace comes in both sterling silver and 18K gold, and is manufactured in Southern California. The silver LOVE necklaces can be purchased for $175, and the gold for $775.
The profits from the LOVE necklaces will benefit grantLOVE’s current partners and new initiatives: Project Angel Food (Los Angeles, CA), the Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Visual Arts, a collaboration with the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Costa Mesa, CA, and a grant for women-identified artists.
]]>Oscar de la Renta and visual artist Alexandra Grant are joining forces through her ongoing grantLOVE project with Project Angel Food’s Covid-19 Emergency Food Fund to create kits containing three weeks of frozen and shelf-stable meals. Proceeds from Grant’s LOVE prints, inspired by the vibrant colors of Oscar de la Renta’s spring collection, go entirely to the nonprofit. The artist (and partner of Keanu Reeves) even discovered a synergy between her work and the deeply philanthropic fashion house’s spring designs. “It might be because of my childhood spent in Mexico and Mr. de la Renta’s Dominican roots, but many of my pieces for the LOVE exhibition are works that I had in the studio,” Grant says. “Our color palettes were already in sync.”
Read the full article in C Magazine here.
]]>After her March 12 art exhibition at the Oscar de la Renta location on Melrose Place was canceled due to COVID-19 fears, artist Alexandra Grant shifted the event into an online act of goodwill to benefit Project Angel Food. Through the Los Angeles-based artist's GrantLove Project, the online event will feature limited-edition prints created by Grant and inspired by the Spring/Summer 2020 collection of Oscar de la Renta. Through this new vision of the exhibition, the GrantLove Project will donate 100 percent of its profits from the sale of the prints to Project Angel Food's COVID-19 Emergency Food Fund.
"I love how nimble the collaboration has been with Oscar de la Renta, curator Yasmine Zodeh and Project Angel Food," Grant said. "Once it became clear we couldn't do an in-store event and exhibition we shifted to the point of it all: using art as alchemy to feed our fellow humans. Each GrantLove print provides an Angeleno/a in need with three weeks of food."
Read the full article in ApparelNews here.
]]>PAF is now turning their attention to fundraising in order to meet the evolving needs of their clients and community as COVID-19 spreads. The grantLOVE project will continue donating 100% of the profits from the sale of the Oscar de la Renta–inspired LOVE prints to PAF’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund. Proceeds will help PAF keep their doors open and continue to serve their clients by hiring out-of-work restaurant chefs and gig economy freelancers to make up for the loss of 800 volunteer hours per week. 100% of PAF’s clients are at risk for COVID-19, and it’s vital that they’re able to continue providing services to their clients through this crisis.
Project Angel Food is the first beneficiary of an ongoing collaboration between the grantLOVE project and Oscar de la Renta. Since 2010 artist Alexandra Grant and the grantLOVE project have been regular contributors to the Angel Art auctions, raising more than $110,000 for Project Angel Food. On March 12th we were to launch our first initiative — an exhibition of artworks by Alexandra curated by Yasmine Zodeh — at the Oscar de la Renta store on Melrose Place, but had to postpone because of COVID-19. We are thrilled that the collaboration has been able to respond quickly to our new circumstances.
Click here to view the limited edition print series and place an order.
For more information, please contact Laura Watts, Special Events Associate, lwatts@angelfood.org.
I knew during the AIDS crisis that with enough love, we would make it through. And we will make it through the coronavirus too. But it took a lot of love then, and it will take a lot of love now. I hope you’ll share your love with us.
-- Marianne Williamson, Founder of Project Angel Food
Press:
C Magazine
www.magazinec.com/culture/how-californias-most-creative-minds-are-mobilizing-to-combat-coronavirus/
Apparel News
www.apparelnews.net/news/2020/mar/24/alexandra-grant-gives-love-project-angel-food/
Whitewall Art
www.whitewall.art/lifestyle/covid-19-response-pyer-moss-oscar-de-la-renta-dundas-and-more
The grantLOVE project is happy to announce that we'll be at the Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles, February 13-16! Our pop-up shop will benefit the Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA)'s Visual Arts Program.
For more information: https://frieze.com/fair-programme/grantlove
For over ten years the grantLOVE project has partnered with different artists, non-profits and their communities to create limited-edition artworks based on artist Alexandra Grant's trademarked LOVE symbol. It is both a fundraising and a friendraising project, building partnerships and support between artists, non-profits, and community initiatives.
Through the sale of hoodies, prints, beach towels and other grantLOVE editions, we are able to make gifts of both artworks and direct donations to organizations. Alexandra’s stance is that love is an approach to self-acceptance, a right to be practiced as individuals see fit, and a responsibility to love those different than ourselves, interlacing and weaving together people and communities.
The grantLOVE pop-up shop at Frieze 2020 will benefit the arts education work of Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Visual Arts, directed by Nara Hernandez and based in the MacArthur Park neighborhood in Los Angeles. Students who attend HOLA’s after-school art classes receive support and mentorship and 95-97% of participants graduate from high school. The Frieze grantLOVE pop-up will feature LOVE prints, jewelry, hoodies and original artworks co-created with HOLA artists to benefit the organization. In addition, the grantLOVE pop-up shop will hire an HOLA intern to share the business of art and host a cocktail party with HOLA supporters and open to Frieze visitors.
Photo by Devon Tsuno featuring HOLA students and grantLOVE x Devon Tsuno Beach Towels (an edition from 2015).
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We are very happy to announce the 2019 grantLOVE awardees: The Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Visual Arts, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and The Love House (through Fulcrum Arts). For over ten years the grantLOVE project has partnered with different artists, non-profits and their communities to create limited-edition artworks based on Alexandra Grant's trademarked LOVE symbol. It is both a fundraising and a friendraising project, building partnerships and support between artists, non-profits, and community initiatives. Through the sale of hoodies, prints, beach towels and other grantLOVE editions, we are able to make gifts of both artworks and direct donations to organizations. Thank you HOLA, X-TRA and Fulcrum Arts and to all our supporters for being such great partners!
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April 11th - 14th
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Free and open to the public.
For more information and hours: https://laabf2019.printedmatterartbookfairs.org.
]]>This limited edition box celebrates LOVE in all its forms and is available both at the andSons store (9548 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210) or online here.
Accompanying their classic enrobed chocolates are a series of hearts bursting with new flavors. Passion fruit, raspberry, lime and other fruits are carefully paired with caramels, dark, milk and white chocolate.
Through this collaboration, andSons is supporting grantLOVE which produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artist projects and arts non-profits.
You can also pick up the limited edition prints — LOVE, 2019 — either here online or at the andSons store!
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Sunday, December 16th
11am - 6pm
1619 Vintage Boutique
1619 Silver Lake Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Come join 1619 Vintage Boutique's Erin Kellgren and artist Alexandra Grant to celebrate 2018! This year's holiday pop-up shop will feature new grantLOVE editions and original artworks, sweatshirts and hats, and books and art by X Artists' Books' authors and artists. We'll have hot toddies and something bubbly. Rain or shine. xoxo
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Alexandra Grant, Love, 2018, 33" x 48" x 2" Edition of 3
For more information and online bidding, click here.
For live bidding tickets to Angel Art, Saturday, June 23rd, click here.
]]>United in ❤️💛💚💙💜 (small LOVE neon stack), 2017
Neon
96 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2”
Edition of 3 + 1AP
$30,000
www.grantlove.com/collections/frontpage/products/united-in
Profits from the purchase of this neon go to supporting arts non-profits and artist projects with a focus on supporting the freedom and creativity of the LGBTQ community.
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The quilt measures 52" x 49" and is made out of 100% cotton.
To purchase: www.grantlove.com/collections/frontpage/products/grantlove-x-zink-quilt-to-benefit-project-success
100% of profits from this quilt benefit Project Success in Fort Worth, whose mission is to mentor unsheltered youth so they can break the cycle of displacement by providing a creative outlet through art.
Weekly, volunteers walk to the shelter to gather interested youth, who are taken to a boardroom at the local police station. A hot meal is provided and participants work to create art projects and crafts that express their thoughts, hopes and dreams.
For more information: www.facebook.com/projectsuccess1/
]]>The prints are available for pre-sale now, for shipping or pick-up at LFrank beginning on February 11th.
We are having a launch event LFrank on Saturday, February 11th from 4-7pm:
LFrank
226 Main Street
Venice, CA 90291
A sneak peak! Just in time for Valentine's day!
Alexandra Grant and the grantLOVE project are teaming up again with master printer Alisa Ratner on a new series of grantLOVE prints to benefit X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal.
Please save the date!
We will launch the prints at LFrank on Saturday, February 11th from 4-7pm.
LFrank
226 Main Street
Venice, CA 90291
The grantLOVE symbol is Alexandra Grant’s trademarked brand for philanthropy in the arts. The grantLOVE project is an artist-driven philanthropic project that produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artist projects, arts non-profits and art education. www.grantlove.com
Alisa Ratner is a master printer based in Los Angeles who works with letterpress. She has collaborated with artists such as Sam Falls, Alexandra Grant and Emily Mast.
A percentage of the profits from the sale of these works goes to benefit X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal. X-TRA's mission is to provoke critical dialogue about contemporary art. Founded in 1997, X-TRA is the longest running art journal in Los Angeles. Edited by a collective of artists and writers, X-TRA presents expansive features, historical essays, commissioned artist's projects, interviews, columns, and substantive reviews. X-TRA is published in print and digital-reader format, and the complete archive is available online. www.x-traonline.org
LFrank by Liseanne Frankfurt is a fine jewelry and luxury lingerie collection, created exclusively in Los Angeles, and available online and at the LFrank boutique. www.lfrankjewelry.com
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Please join us for Rob Pruitt's Flea Market organized by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)
We'll have a grantLOVE pop-up shop with grantLOVE jewelry, tote bags and grantLOVE x Devon Tsuno Beach towels!
1019 E. 4th Place
Los Angeles, CA 90013
February 13 & 14, 2016, 11am-7pm
Special Preview: February 12, 2016, 6-9pm
For more information: http://nomadicdivision.org/exhibition/rob-pruitts-flea-market/
The grantLOVE project is pleased to announce that we'll be doing a Pop-Up shop at the 2016 fresh stART auction on Saturday, February 6, 2016 6 - 8pm. All profits from the sales of the grantLOVE x Devon Tsuno Beach Towels will benefit the Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA).
Location:
Arena 1 Gallery at the Santa Monica Art Studios
3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, Ca 90405
(across from the Barker Hangar)
For more information and tickets, please visit:
Founded in 2001, fresh stART, the annual fundraising event of the McCall Family Foundation, is a one-night art exhibition and sale with two distinct goals. Our primary goal is to fund programs that provide arts-related therapies to children designated "at-risk." Secondly, fresh stART strives to stimulate the arts in Los Angeles by providing potential collectors with a personal connection to both established and emerging artists.
HOLA’s Visual Arts Program provides quality programming to inner-city youth who have little or no access to such classes inside or outside of school. HOLA’s visual arts curriculum is designed and delivered by innovative teaching artists, college professors and passionate volunteer artists who combine their efforts to provide intensive arts education for at-risk youth. Each year, over 280 elementary, middle and high school students participate in the Visual Arts Program.
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