Public Art Division Director for Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

10:30 am PT/12:30pm CT/ 1:30pm ET

On July 6, members of ArtTable's Southern California chapter met for a walkthrough of Sonia Romero's unique and powerful Metro Arts landscape project in the historic Mariachi Plaza's Gilt Line Station in Boyle Heights. Every bit a result of this successful result, we are following upwardly with part two!

Join us for a virtual discussion on the current state of public art in Los Angeles and Romero's public fine art projects — especially equally nosotros sally from the pandemic with an increased sensation of the profound value of art in activated public spaces beyond all the city'southward diverse communities.

Romero unpacks the community and history-axial content of the work, besides as offers insight as to how the projection came into fruition over the course of more than five years. Additionally, nosotros are honored to welcome to this conversation with the perspectives of LA Metro's head of Cultural Programming Heidi Zeller, Director of the Metropolis of Fifty.A.'s Public Art Segmentation Felicia Filer, and the Department of Cultural Affairs General Manager Danielle Brazell.

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• Non Members – $15

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Most the Speakers

Sonia Romero is a Los Angeles artist known for her paper-cut and printmaking aesthetics which she incorporates into both her fine art and public fine art commissions. Built-in in 1980, she grew up in an artistic household in Repeat Park before formally studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. After returning to California, she began working as a public artist, and was the artist in residence at Avenue 50 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles from 2007-2014. (soniaromero)

Danielle Brazell is a visionary national arts and cultural leader, passionate about the roles that arts, culture, and creativity play in advancing borough belonging, equity, economical prosperity, and social connectedness. Her career spans thirty years, first as an creative person, teaching artist, cultural producer, and administrator, and now as the General Managing director of the Metropolis of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). A passionate abet, she advances the agency's mission to heighten the quality of life in the city. Ms. Brazell provides executive leadership to a staff of 84 full-fourth dimension employees and over 200 role- time employees, including a robust roster of didactics artists. Ms. Brazell works with the progressive agency'southward Community Arts, Grants Administration, Public Art, and Marketing, Evolution, Blueprint, and Digital Research division directors, and the Performing Arts Programme and Full general and Administrative Back up Plan directors, to implement an annual budget of $22 million and a robust $150 million portfolio of upper-case letter projects, facilities, programming, and initiatives of free and low-cost publicly attainable arts and cultural services citywide. Prior to 2014, Ms. Brazell was the Executive Managing director of Arts for LA, a highly visible arts advocacy system serving the greater Los Angeles region. Under her stewardship, Arts for LA became a formidable coalition advancing the arts in the largest county in the state. Ms. Brazell was previously the Creative Director of Highways Operation Art Infinite and the Manager of Special Projects for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. She serves equally a lath fellow member of Americans for the Arts and DataArts.

Felicia Filer is the public fine art manager for the City of Los Angeles Section of Cultural Affairs. She has overseen the commission and fulfillment of over 200 permanent public art projects throughout the city. In Summer 2016, Filer co-produced the urban center'south inaugural Public Fine art Biennial, CURRENT: LA Water. The Biennial deputed 15 original, temporary public art installations and 150 public programs. A native of Los Angeles, she earned an MBA in finance and marketing from Claremont Graduate University. (linkedin)

Heidi Zeller is LA Metro's Senior Managing director of Cultural Programming. Zeller is an arts organizer and cultural planner with a focus on the role of fine art in enriching public space and civic dialogue. At LA Metro, she produces Metro Art Presents, a serial of arts and cultural events at historic Matrimony Station. She is a proud native Angeleno. (ciclavia)

Cheers to Shana Nys Dambrot & Ceci Moss, ArtTable SoCal Chapter Co-Chairs, for organizing this plan.

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Images:

1. Headshots of the speakers, clockwise from top left: Sonia Romero, Danielle Brazell, Felicia Filer, & Heidi Zeller