Kate Lain

Kate Lain is a Pasadena-based multidisciplinary artist working in clay, printmaking (including cyanotypes), collage, film, and video. In her varied works, Kate plays with color, texture, and movement and is interested in ways humans understand nature. She approaches both her ceramics and cyanotypes as collaborations—with material properties, with objects, with natural and chemical processes, with weather and other conditions, with the elements of chance that arise from all of these. Intention and discovery are equally important to her process. Kate’s handcrafted porcelain and stoneware necklaces, vases, and sculptural objects recall sculptural forms and delicate colors, shapes, and textures of desert landscapes and geothermal regions of the western and southwestern U.S. Her cyanotypes are on the one hand documents, records of experiments and conditions, but they are also ethereal traces of light and chemistry that point beyond the corporeal.

www.katemakesfilms.com

Instagram:
@katemakesfilms
@katelainprojects

Twitter:
@katemakesfilms

Kalli Arte Collective

Self taught artist couple, Adriana Carranza and Alfonso Aceves, are Kalli Arte from Boyle Heights. “Kalli is our home.The foundation of our culture. It allows for our survival and protection. We must understand that the status of our bodies, homes, and community reflects the status of our spirits.”

www.kalliarte.com

Instagram: @kalliarte

Eagle Rock High School Arts

Created, Curated and installed by students at ERHS. Eagle Rock HS is a California Exemplary Arts Program School. Students from the Advanced Placement Studio Art class are proud to share their work with their local community. Instructor: Pablo Oliveros

arts.erhs.la

Fourground Co.

Fourground Co. is a collective of artists, print makers and entrepreneurs dedicated to motivating each other to grow and master their respective craft. Their mission is to inspire the communities around them to come together and do the same. In order to help this mission, Fourground Co. produces artwork that communicates the idea of universal love. They also reach out to local organizations to put together workshops to teach art and printmaking for all ages.

www.fourgroundco.com

Instagram: @fourgroundco

Dahlias by Linda Johnstone Allen

Linda Johnstone Allen was born and raised in the Glendale & Northeast Los Angeles area. The daughter of artists & art educators, she was encouraged and inspired throughout her childhood and has been fusing her creativity with her love of community. Referred to by her daughters (also artists) as a “true renaissance woman” – Linda has life experiences working as an artist, illustrator, teacher, arts activist and champion to community preservation and redevelopment in her home town of Eagle Rock.

www.ljafineart.com

Allensworth

Allensworth is a Southern California quintet that fuses rock and soul into a melting pot of true life anthemic stories. The authentic sound derives from the bands diverse cultural backgrounds and surroundings. Comprised of musicians from Northern and Southern California, Allensworth unites their influences from the Bay area to LA.

Instagram: @allensworthmusic

VV Friendly & Easy Joe

VV Friendly & Easy Joe is the joint creative project of Steve Ryu and Rocco Rivetti. With the recent addition of Trapper Piatt on drums, the project has avalanched from a series of bedroom tapes into its current, fuller sound. The project embodies a creative urgency due to the fact that Ryu has to return to his native country of South Korea to enlist in mandatory military service for the next two years in mid-October, making this show the band’s final performance in its current form.

Armand Paul

Armand Paul is an experimental folk singer from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. As a songwriter, he draws influence from ancient mystics as much as from his
personal experiences and observations; the result is by turns earnest verging on innocent as often as austere and haunting. Much of Armand’s music is a meditation on the subtle strength and the tension that simmers beneath quiet moments, encouraging self-reflection.

His recent album Fault Lines & Other Songs (released in March of 2018, available on cassette and online) explores the importance of honoring the ephemeral, both mourning and celebrating the transience of life and nature.

Instagram: @armandpaul

Cynthia Brando

At the end of 2013, Cynthia took a long awaited step in her music career when she moved from quiet Northern California to the city of Los Angeles. In those years, she developed a connection with fellow musicians and appreciators as a performer all across the Los Angeles region and beyond-sharing her unique “vintage vibe” powerful vocals and steady folk rock rhythms in clubs, homes and as a street performer. In 2015, Cynthia started “Music Emerging”-a project of inspiring artist interviews, articles and a successful concert series. Music Emerging is growing to include a portal of resources and emotional support for artists. Cynthia has been published as a guest writer on the music sites Music Clout and Music Industry How To, and she has received honorable mentions for her music in the Songdoor International Songwriting Competition and the American Songwriter Magazine Lyric Contest. Cynthia is a 2017 recipient of a Hemera Foundation Fellowship Award for her music. Her new album, “The Treehouse Trio Sessions” was released in June of 2018 with a month tour in the Northwest and Southwestern United States.

Kawalea Polynesian Dance

Kawalea Polynesian Dance, founded in 1988, under the direction of Kathleen Jaime “Kawalea” Jones, has shared its passion for the Polynesian culture, dance and music with many students and families over the years. From learning dances representative of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti, Samoa and New Zealand to fire knife dancing and Tahitian drumming, our members develop a deep-felt connection and passion for Polynesian culture.

Over the years, Kawalea has performed for many events, including The City of Los Angeles Lotus Festival, Parks and Recreation Ho’olauleas, The LA Chinatown Firecracker Festival, Make-A-Wish Foundation, School Events and private functions.

Under the Creative Direction of Cathy Maile Perez and Club Management of Kathleen M Jones, Kawalea continues to share its passion for Polynesian Dance and music with its members and the surrounding communities. From our Kawalea Ohana to yours, we wish you a fond ALOHA!