Heriberto Luna is the fourth artist to have been featured in the LA-Artist Documentary Project’s on-going film series.
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Episode Four. Heriberto F. Luna
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ArtCard the ‘postal service’ Art Project: Los Angeles, CA
Great news! ArtCard has finally started to gain momentum. The citywide mail art collaboration has attracted over one hundred and twenty artists from across Los Angeles and is showcasing artwork from twenty five different neighborhoods.
Episode Three. Rika Ohara
Rika Ohara is the third artist to have been featured in the LA-Artist Documentary Project’s on-going film series. I would like to thank Rika for participating and being such a star in front of camera!
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Thrones of Power and Wisdom
Los Angeles Unified School District, a teacher mentors her students while they design and build ‘Thrones of Power and Wisdom’.
This short documentary film captures the creativity, commitment and goals of a group of students in an 8th grade inner-city art class.
Filmed and edited, in part, by the student – artists themselves at Hollenbeck Middle School [...]
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Extras: LA-Artist Website
During production we have collected a vast amount of video media, a lot of which we don’t have the opportunity to use in the final cut.
This media consist of interviews and b-roll footage that capture the artists at work and in their creative space. Due to the new media, online short film format we edit [...]
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Film Production; LA-Artists Involved with Project
Greetings all! We have fantastic news! LA-Artist is collaborating with two more very talented and enthusiastic local artists!
Yesterday, I drove five minutes down the road to meet with muralist and community artist Raul Baltazar. Living just off Alvarado in Echo Park, I quickly realized that we are neighbors. Very cool! Raul’s work presented itself to [...]
Episode Two Release Date 2nd Oct
Yes. Finally. What you have all been waiting for: LA Artist is scheduled to release episode two of its documentary film project on Friday the 2nd of October 2009. Sarah Sitkin, the featured artist/photographer, has a style and demeanor that electrifies the screen. She is creatively liberated and I hope that this sense of freedom [...]
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Sarah Sitkin B-roll. Downtown Production
The LA Artist series is living up to its mantra, artistic diversity is most defiantly being documented. Last night I visited a small but bold studio on Main and 38th in Downtown Los Angeles. The home/studio is rented by Sarah Sitkin, a photographer living and working in The City of Angels.
What interested me about Sarah [...]
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Back From a Break
After a brief hiatus, LA Artist is back in full production. We left the series in mid-flow a month ago to introduce my Californian family to the bucolic delights of the Isle of Man (and, a very long time ago, home to a certain Miles Standish, leader of the Pilgrim Fathers who landed in North [...]
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