Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. When Paul Thomas Anderson asked her to star in “Licorice Pizza,” the musician had zero acting experience. Now she’s winning rave reviews. By Lindsay Zoladz, Originally Published in the New York Times, Dec. 6, 2021 One summer night in 2019, Alana Haim was jet-lagged, tossing and turning in a...
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The cast and crew, from left, Liana Bartolome, 16, Sam Karpinski, 17, Randy Damas, 18, Leilani Patao, 18, Benji Tucker, 18, Vivian Wolfson, 17, Elton McCrudden, 15, Pascal Connolly, 15, of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Louder Than Words” High School Edition, a piece for “tick, tick…Boom!” pose at LACHSA in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 30, 2021....
There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles. The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The two young men are sportily dressed and look directly at visitors; they even stand the same way. But there is one major difference. They remind me of trading cards....
Clairbourn graduates are SCHOLARS who are grounded in the values of honesty, respect, responsibility, spirituality, and citizenship. Nicole Lam was a part of the Clairbourn Class of 2017. She recently graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) as valedictorian. This fall, she will be attending Yale University, majoring in applied mathematics while continuing...
LACHSA THEATRE: The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) will present its annual Halls of Horror this weekend featuring the talented students of the LACHSA Theatre Department. Guests will travel through two immersive experiences and will be transported into the era of Jack the Ripper and H.H. Holmes in a thrilling original and interactive performance. Themed...
By Julia Barajas and Mariana Dale Orifginally Published Oct 29, 2021 6:39 PM on the LAist Zen Sanchez plays a literally heartless hotel guest. (Mariana Dale/ LAist ) When the pandemic all but shut down Halloween last year, one of its victims was the annual “Halls of Horror” event at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, housed in...
The artist invites viewers into her uncanny universe with a dual show in Los Angeles. Katie White, October 19, 2021 Originally published at https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ariana-papademetropoulos-interview-2022483 Los Angeles artist Ariana Papademetropoulos will lure you into a painted fairy tale—one that hovers winkingly between the romantic and the foreboding. Papademetropoulos, who is 30 and was born and raised in Pasadena, makes seductively...
Installation view in the Thornton Portrait Gallery at The Huntington. Left to right: Joshua Reynolds, Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie, 1777; Kehinde Wiley, A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, 2021; Thomas Gainsborough, Elizabeth (Jenks) Beaufoy, later Elizabeth Pycroft, ca. 1780. Photo: Joshua White. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. SAN MARINO, CA.- Visitors got a first...
Written By Caroline Framke One of the best surprises about this year’s Emmy nominations was “Pen15” landing a nomination for outstanding comedy series. More than any other TV show about teenagers, the Hulu show — co-created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman — feels like an open window into my own past as a gawky teen with too many...
Donald R. Martin (1931- 2021), a highly regarded Los Angeles-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher who taught for 15 plus years at Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, passed away peacefully at his home in West Hollywood on July 4th. Mr. Martin was a student at Jefferson High in South Central LA in the late...
Originally published at the Los Angeles Sentinel By Amanda Scurlock sports writer, published July 1, 2021 Assata Gaines, a graduating senior from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), earned a full scholarship to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Gaines not only looks forward to studying dance at the university but is ready...
Hard work paid off when 17-year-old Assata Gaines from Inglewood found out she earned a full-ride dance scholarship to NYU. INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- An Inglewood dancer just earned a full-ride to New York University, but it didn't come without hard work and sacrifice. 17-year-old Assata Gaines always knew she wanted to dance, but when she found...
Nyla Joseph has felt at ease in front of a camera ever since appearing in a public service announcement six years ago. But her dreams of becoming an actor were frustrated because her South Los Angeles middle school lacks a theater program. And her mother was leery of internet scams promising to turn her daughter into the...
LACHSA senior Arlene Campa, founder of the Art Hour, a student-led arts education organization and Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate recently authored "Opinion: Arts Education Is A Student Right, Especially During A Pandemic." Arlene discusses the power of art to emotionally and academically rebuild students, but notes that arts education must be implemented with equity in...
Self Help Graphics & Art was founded in the 1970’s to expand access to art education and produce cultural events that empower and inspire the communities of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles. To continue advancing education and the representation of people of color in the arts, we are partnering with the Los Angeles County...
SAVE THE DATE for MAY 2nd for the 2021 Future Artists Gala!!! Don't miss the 2021 Future Artists Gala on May 2, an event filled with hope, inspiration, amazing talent, plus a few fun surprises! TICKETS ON SALE IN MARCH. [embed]https://vimeo.com/508957422[/embed] ...
On Tuesday, which would have been Eddie Van Halen’s 66th birthday, a giant mural of the guitar hero titled “Long Live the King” was unveiled outside the Guitar Center’s flagship store on Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Rendered by Los Angeles artist and graduate of the LA County High School for the Arts Robert Vargas, the mural...
LOS ANGELES, CA — Eleven students from Los Angeles-area schools were nominated Thursday as 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts. Four of those students are enrolled at Los Angeles County School For the Arts, while another three attend Harvard-Westlake in Studio City. A total of 60 students from 19 states across 10 artistic mediums were...
January 18, 2021January 18th marks another trip around the Sun for me. Though Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s actual birthday is January 15th, this year my birthday happens to coincidewith the Monday we collectively celebrate and honor his life and legacy. The beginning of a new year is usually filled with hope, optimism and excitement...
LACHSA Principal John Lawler and Equity Coordinator Esmeralda Flores are interviewed by Spectrum News 1 SoCal about LACHSA's efforts to improve equity and access to arts education for student artists in LA County. https://vimeo.com/501055652 ...
In July, The LA Times spoke with a few graduates from LACHSA anxiously preparing to enroll in university arts programs. Now, as they wrap up their first semester, we followed up to learn about their freshman experience — or, in the case of one student who decided to defer enrollment, find out if she’s content...
Twenty years after becoming an LGBTQ icon for her role in But I’m a Cheerleader, the director Clea DuVall and LACHSA alum has broken records with Happiest Season, a rom-com about queer joy. Ask Clea DuVall, the director of the holiday rom-com Happiest Season, for her favorite shot from the film, and she’ll know her answer, no problem. It...
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LACHSA Alum Jesse Perez appears in the San Diego Repertory Theater’s production of “JQA,” a play about John Quincy Adams. In Aaron Posner’s play, there is more than one John Quincy Adams, but only one way to ensure that American democracy endures. Sounding like a 19th-century MSNBC pundit, John Quincy Adams once complained to his mother,...
LOS ANGELES — For musicians today, it takes a lot more than a drum set to get to work. Music producer Jamey Tate writes and records music for film and television and he’s able to do all that from the comfort of his home studio.“So one of the great things about having a facility like...
Anna Kendrick, Billie Eilish, Eddie Redmayne, Nicole Kidman and Salma Hayek also appeared at "Empowering the Next Generation," which gave grants to over 70 nonprofits focused on cultivating young artists. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association hosted its online "Empowering the Next Generation" event on Tuesday, highlighting 2020 grantees and announcing more than $5.1 million to over...
LACHSA Alumnus and Peabody Award-winning journalist Carvell Wallace hosts "Who We Are," a Vox podcast chronicling racism in America. Carvell is a New York Times bestselling author, memoirist and award-winning podcaster who covers race, arts, culture, film and music for the New York Times, GQ, Esquire, MTV, and the New Yorker. He is a regular long...
LACHSA Alumnus Christina Quarles, known for her jumbled-up portraits of intimacy, reflects on the difficulties and opportunities of 2020. The 35-year old artist is known for her jumbled-up portraits of intimacy—arms and legs twisted together, raw canvas commanding viewers to fill in blanks between thick impasto brushstrokes. Looking at them is dizzying, like seeing oneself from...
LACHSA Alumni Maya Erskine returns for a second season of Emmy-nominated “Pen15”. It’s been over a year since we went to middle school with Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kohn (Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, respectively), the stars of Hulu’s comedy series “Pen15.” And while the wait for Season 2 has been long, fans got their first look...
We asked five dancers at the top of their craft to explore their dance family trees, uncovering connections to the legendary dance artists who've shaped their careers. Natasha Diamond-Walker, Martha Graham Dance Company Rooted to: Lester Horton, Debbie Allen, Arthur Mitchell, Martha Graham, Fred Astaire Natasha Diamond-Walker has been a soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company for the past...
“This was the program that allowed me to find my voice and my love of music,” says double bassist and LACHSA alumnus. For cellist Zenaida Aparicio-Alejo, it has always offered “a place where we can rely on each other—on friends and teachers.” Both musicians have been involved with Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) since the age of...
The Arts Schools Network Board of Directors has designated Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) an Exemplary School in recognition of its commitment to excellence. The five-year designation is awarded for 2020-2025. Arts Schools Network (ASN), the nation’s largest professional membership organization of specialized arts schools, awards Exemplary School designations to members that...
Martha Gonzalez, the singer for Quetzal and author of a new book, “Chican@ Artivistas,” at her home in Los Angeles, holding a jarana from Veracruz.(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) By STEVE SALDIVARLos Angeles Times, JULY 24, 2020, 7 AM You might think winning a Grammy might be an artist’s dream. For Martha Gonzalez, the 48-year-old singer...
FARMINGTON — Sonia Plumb Dance Company announces the world premiere of “The Dance of da Vinci 2.0,” to be held on the grounds of the historic Hill-Stead Museum, according to an email from organizers. There will be four live performances presented from July 31 through August 2. “The Dance of Da Vinci 2.0” explores the...
Drew McClellan is a teacher and filmmaker leading Gen-Z’s new creators. A youthful mind and amicable personality, he couldn’t have been better suited to lead the departments of Cinematic and Visual Arts at LACHSA (Los Angeles County High School for the Arts), the famed public arts high school in Los Angeles. That he feels comfortable...
LACHSA alumni Arianna Carson, who plans to study dance at SUNY Purchase in the fall, is photographed near her home in Rowland Heights on July 6, 2020.(Christina House / Los Angeles Times) By MAKEDA EASTER JULY 20, 2020 As a dance student at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Arianna Carson’s meticulously scheduled days often began...
Joining famed jazz pianist and LACHSA alumni Gerald Clayton are a formidable front line of altoist Logan Richardson and tenorist Walter Smith III and the rhythm tandem of bassist Joe Sanders and drummer Marcus Gilmore, both fellow LACHSA alumni, that perform on five of the seven tunes – four Clayton originals and the finale, Billy Strayhorn’s “Take the Coltrane.” Bud Powell’s “Celia” and the...
Original Article at LATimes.com: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-06-18/phoebe-bridgers-punisherBy MIKAEL WOOD POP MUSIC CRITIC JUNE 18, 2020 Before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the live-music industry — and sent Phoebe Bridgers deep into quarantine — the Los Angeles-based indie-rock star had planned to spend this spring on the road building anticipation for her new album, “Punisher.” While she’s been serious about staying...
Our country is physically sick from a ruthless virus and morally sick from persistent racism in all its forms. At LACHSA, we’ve already taken steps to address our health by closing the campus and implementing social distancing protocols. Now we must all line up together and demand radical and meaningful change to heal the insidious...
For the past 11 Mays, the talented young finalists of the national August Wilson Monologue Competition have gathered from around the country to share their performances onstage at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre. This year, with theatres closed due to the public health crisis, the competition hosted its first-ever virtual finals. Over the course of the May 2–3 weekend,...
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts seniors awarded prestigious honor Five students in Los Angeles County have been named as United States Presidential Scholars. The announcement was made by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Thursday. The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was created in 1964 and has recognized more than 7,600 high school students...
In a normal world, the sisters of Haim would be looking forward to doing what they love more than anything else. The Los Angeles trio’s new album, “Women in Music Pt. III,” is set to come out June 26, after which Danielle, Este and Alana Haim were planning to hit the road as they have for...
LACHSA Senior Sydney Guine `20 was featured in Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020, television special that was simulcast on all major television networks and online on May 16, 2020. Celebrities, activists, and artists including President Barack Obama, LeBron James, Ben Platt, Yara Shahidi, Lena Waithe, Alicia Keys, Pharrell Williams, Malala...
In 2009, Phoebe Bridgers began attending the music program at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. She started dyeing her hair unnatural colors, and, later, shaving it off. She was not an especially good student—“I just didn’t get far enough in school to where it was interesting,” she said—but remains grateful for...
LACHSA in the News!! Check out the recent article in the LA Times about the challenges LACHSA is facing and how LACHSA students are tapping into their creative spirit, and all of the innovative ways to collaborate and perform during quarantine. Read the full article here. ...
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Theatre student Kyle Branch `20 performed one of the most riveting moments of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom as part of Art Goes On. Branch, who placed first in this year’s August Wilson Monologue Competition Los Angeles Regional Finals, and our second-place finalist, Tyla Uzo of Ramón C. Cortines High...
For many young people, teaching artists (like their arts teachers) are the first people who certified their passion for writing, or their tentative steps to being a dancer. A teaching artist may have escorted them out of the neighborhood, onto a bus, and downtown to their first-ever play or lent them a world class trumpet to audition for a jazz summer camp (Wolf & Rodriguez Pineda, 2019). Teaching artists are walking embodiments of the possibility that...
Moving from big stages to little screens, artists reflect on what really matters “Since the age of five, I’ve been a storyteller,” said Josefina Lopez, author of the play Real Women Have Curves (later produced as a film starring America Ferrera), and founder of the CASA 0101 Theater in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Eastern Los Angeles. “And when I was 10,...
See full article by Claire Voon at Artsy Quarles, 35, approaches figuration through a steadfast embrace of ambiguity—a style that has contributed to her fast ascendence as one of the most compelling painters working today. She has been included in major institutional shows from the New Museum’s “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon”...
Renowned soprano and LACHSA alum`02 Angel Blue (The Metropolitan Opera’s Porgy & Bess), joined TonyAward-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County, The Last Five Years), and acclaimed theater, TV, and film actor Tituss Burgess for the launch of Live with Carnegie Hall. Host Frank DiLella debuted a new online series designed...
Congratulations to the LACHSA Vocal Jazz Ensemble directed by Pat Bass, runners up in the 2020 Next Generation Jazz Festival High School Vocal Ensemble Division. 2020 will mark the ensemble's 13th appearance at Monterey Jazz Festival. The 2020 Virtual Next Generation Jazz Festival was a reimagining of the 50-year-old event in the age of COVID-19, taking place on...
LACHSA Alum Josh Groban's Find Your Light Foundation was recently featured in Town & Country magazine. The Foundation advocates for access to arts education for every child and Josh Groban testified in front of Congress in 2009 as well, along with Wynton Marsalis and Linda Ronstadt, about funding for arts education. Josh credits LACHSA with...
YoungArts is a national competition recognizing student artists for exceptional achievement - and we are so proud to announce that LACHSA had the most number of winners int the country this year: 22 students were recognized! Our students' achievement shows that an extraordinary, public arts education is possible. Thank you so much to everyone...
Brandon exemplifies the fearless creative spirit of LACHSA grads. Since graduating in 1998, he has become an in-demand bassist for artists such as Benny Green, Robert Glasper, Terence Blanchard, Monty Alexander, and Lauryn Hill. He had this to say about LACHSA: "That’s a great school ...
LACHSA Alum Zoey Deutsch was recently featured on the cover of Cosmopolitan and had this to say about LACHSA: “Being surrounded by a bunch of other like-minded people who also knew what they wanted to do at a very young age was super life-affirming and inspiring” - check it out! https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a29193342/zoey-deutch-cover-story-anxiety-the-politician/ ...
Big congrats to Visual Arts alum Ariana Papademetropoulos who was recently chosen to be part of Gucci's new campaigns! https://www.vogue.com/article/ariana-papademetropoulos-beauty-gucci-memoire-dune-odeur?fbclid=IwAR3XJnOs2i1jDcr1LFyg0WYJYYQqu-GugNRUGUBi8KTQsy49149hFynrX18 ...
LACHSA Alum Justin Klunk has entered his pop duo in a Hollywood Bowl competition to open for a lineup including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Camila Cabello, Jonas Brothers, and Lizzo. Rainne is now one of 16 finalists out of over 3,000 entries! There are 28 hours left to vote for Rainne to help share...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has renewed their $25,000 grant to LACHSA through the LACHSA Foundation. The HFPA is one of our most steadfast supporters, and we thank them for their generous support of our innovative programs.For the Hollywood Reporter story which covers the HFPA banquet hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger, click here. ...
HAIM (Danielle Haim '07, Ariela Haim '07, Alana Haim '10) have released a new video, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. This is HAIM's first new music since 2017 - enjoy the new video Summer Girl here! https://youtu.be/ZjuA_o6Jzyo ...
It's almost that time of year! Get your backpacks and tote bags ready for LACHSA's registration on August 7th. If you're a LACHSA parent and haven't filled out the LACHSA Foundation Parent Info Form yet, please click the link below so you can speed through Registration! Click Here: LACHSA Foundation Parent Info Form ...
We are proud to congratulate LACHSA's soon-to-be senior Akira Sky '20 who is a Regional Winner of the 2019 National Endowment for the Arts' Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge! To see Akira introducing herself and her work, watch the NEA video here: https://youtu.be/y4pfr29xZkM Next, Akira will be paired with a musical theater mentor and music director to form...
We would like to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to Angel Blue (`01) for returning to the LACHSA Music Department last semester and presenting two scholarships to graduating seniors Julio Cesar Martinez and Tiffany Galaviz on behalf of her nonprofit, Sylvia's Kids Foundation. Angel's inspiring performance and master class showed just how authentic and exceptional...