The Broad and Lauren Halsey join forces to bring South L.A. students free art programming
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Set us as preferred It’s back-to-school time for the Broad.The Broad museum is launching a new educational initiative, it announced on Saturday.“Our Block, Our Stories” will pair students with contemporary artists to explore how those artists have been inspired by their local neighborhoods, communities and personal experiences.
The program, open to grades 3 through 12, includes off-site activities and field trips to the museum.The Broad is paying for students’ transport to the museum.The inaugural project will focus on South Los Angeles students and spotlight L.A.
artist Lauren Halsey.Students will visit Halsey’s South L.A.
sculpture garden, “sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles,” to explore themes of neighborhood, memory and belonging.Halsey’s work, which debuted in March, was presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division and curated by LAND co-founder Christine Y.
Kim.Students will then, on the same day, travel to the Broad for guided tours, discussions and writing prompts.They’ll be encouraged to connect their personal experiences to works in the museum’s collection while also considering how they might creatively express their own life stories, from their individual communities, through art.
April De Leon, Broad interim school program manager, is overseeing the program.“It’s so we can bring hundreds of young people [to the museum] so they can be inspired to be creative — and in a way that helps their community, gives back to their community, transforms their community and their city,” said Ed Patuto, Broad director for audience engagement.
“We’ll look at how other artists, too — like Mark Bradford, John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres — deal with their neighborhoods and opportunities in their neighborhoods for inspiration.�...