LA River Arts' Mission
Transforming 51miles of the LA River/ Paayme Paxaayt as a place for ART, NATURE and COMMUNITY.
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River Sessions is an ongoing series of creative site visits that bring artists and cultural practitioners to the LA River to create public activations engaging themes of environmental justice, resilience, and community storytelling.
“Daylighting” is a term borrowed from sustainable urban design - the act of removing infrastructure to reveal buried waterways. The festival’s aim is to elevate the visibility of artists active in the SFV and Indigenous artists with ancestral ties to the SFV (Tongva, Chumash, Tataviam) - shining a light on their work for local and international audiences - while building local and global interest in regenerating the health and cultural importance of the LA River.
Transforming 51miles of the LA River/ Paayme Paxaayt as a place for ART, NATURE and COMMUNITY.
Kiki’ing with the River is an outdoor, artist-guided series along the Paayme Paxaayt (aka the LA River) that celebrates queer resilience and community activism through social sculptures and creative engagement.
We have a limited quantity of paper and bamboo parasols featuring artwork commissioned from Jess Gudiel, a Los Angeles based Indigenous Artist who works with Culture Bearer Tina Orduno Calderon in a collaboration they call: Paviinokre meaning Fluidity / We Flow in Tongva.