Save the Date: Fresh Coat Mural Festival in the DTLA Arts District – Saturday 10/7
Join us on Saturday, October 7th, the for the inaugural Fresh Coat Mural Festival. The event will take place on Colyton between 4th and 5th Avenues, next to The Container Yard (TCY). The all-age, free, one-day event will begin at 12:00pm, and end at 10:30pm. Local, regional and nationally recognized street-artists will paint new murals throughout the…
Coverage: The Container Yard’s Artist “Gallery” Experience
Saturday, January 27th was The Container Yard’s first private event of 2017. Cartwheel Art was there to experience a special evening with 4 diverse artists from the Los Angeles community. The one-night event that was organized for a private client, started with a formal candlelit dinner designed by Shawna Yamamoto & Company and Wife of the…
April 30 “Artopia” Flowers with Mud Baron
On April 30, the Container Yard in the Downtown LA Arts District will be aglow with murals and art for LA Weekly’s “Artopia” a one-night only celebration with art, music, food and drink. Adding even more color and bursting with Nature’s bounty: “Flowers on Your Head” an ongoing living art project from the amazing Mud…
Save the Date: LA Weekly’s Artopia, April 30 at The Container Yard
It’s a mega-art Thursday at The Container Yard on April 30 from 8:00pm to 11:00pm, featuring live art, music, fashion, artisanal cocktails and food trucks. Artopia is back for its third year and for 2015, art world superhero Shana Nys Dambrot has curated a sensory event to delight, entrance and expand your mind: My vision for…
Council District 14 Supports Cartwheel Art Tours During Bloomfest LA.
As a special part of November 8th’s Bloomfest LA 2014 programming, Council District 14 will be supporting four free Cartwheel Art Tours through the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. These guided tours, created, produced, and led by Cartwheel Art founder and Arts District resident Cindy Schwarzstein, provide participants the opportunity to to discover, explore, and…
El Velorio Enchants: A Day of the Dead November 8
The dead are always with us, and don’t just disappear after Halloween, All Saint’s Day and All Souls Day. Case in point, the dead will still be dancing–and so will you–November 8 at El Velorio, beginning at 7pm at Plaza de la Raza. This beautiful festival, produced by artist Antonio Pelayo benefits Plaza de la…
Council District 14 Supports Cartwheel Art Tours During Bloomfest LA.
As a special part of November 8th’s Bloomfest LA 2014 programming, Council District 14 is supporting four free Cartwheel Art Tours through the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. These guided tours — created, produced, and led by Cartwheel Art founder and Arts District resident Cindy Schwarzstein–provide participants the opportunity to intimately discover, explore, and experience local…
October 18: Curating Homeboy Industries 5k Run Outdoor Art Show
October 18 I am curating my biggest art show yet, an outdoor, four-hour pop-up benefiting Homeboy Industries as part of their 5k run/walk, over forty artists and approximately eighty pieces of art that will be hung on a chain link fence. We start hanging at 5am, the show opens at 8am and is over at…
“Scratch” at El Segundo Museum of Art
One of the most important museum shows to open this year, if not this decade, “Scratch” at the El Segundo Museum of Art works on numerous levels to highlight the past, present, and future of art, lettering, and Los Angeles. Last year, the Getty Research Institute began an ambitious program conceived by graffiti collector…
Save the Date: May 15: Gajin Fujita, Alex DEFER Kizu, UGLAR Works, Vyal, Phowl and More
Artists Gajin Fujita, Alex DEFER Kizu, UGLAR Works, Phowl, Vyal, Roten, Mr. Ed Gutter, Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre and others are donating their works for a silent auction to help launch production of the film Dark Progressivism: On Rupture and Rebellion, May 15 at the NELA watering hole Footsies, from 6pm to 9pm. This is a…
Cartwheel Art Takes American Planning Association L.A. on Art District Mural Tour
Ashley Atkinson, is Programs Co-Director, APA LA. She shares her experiences on the Cartwheel Art Tour of the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District which was designed for the group, and open to the public. What do street artists and urban planners have in common? No, it’s not a cheap joke–it’s a question explored by a…