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2024

Venice Arts Gala Raises $130k to empower Youth through Art

Featured in Yo! Venice

Venice Arts to Host Gala Honoring Founding Director, Welcomes New Executive Director

Featured in Yo! Venice

jonathan Kee is Breaking Youth In On the Entertainment Industry

Featured in Los Angeles Sentinel

Meet the 2024 Film Independent Future Filmmakers!

Featured in Film Independent

Art Gallery to Unveil “Dogtown: The Pups of Venice Beach and Their Humans”

Featured in Yo! Venice

NBCUniversal Creative Impact Lab Apprentices Selected for the Alliance for Media Arts + Culture’s 2024 Power of Storytelling Grants 

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Capturing Canine Charm: Dogtown exhibit Celebrates Venice Beach’s Four-Legged Locals

Featured in The Argonaut

NBCU Creative Impact Lab Makes Olympic Spot for Challenged Athletes Foundation

Featured in NBCUniversal


2023

Venice Arts’ Program Manager wins the Callanan Teaching Award

Featured in CENTER

Getty Center | Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems — See the world through their eyes

Featured in FLAUNT

Joshua Calderon: From Student to Teacher, a Venice Arts ALum Story

Featured in EIF Careers Program Newsletter

AL ROKER DISCUSSES VENICE ARTS' APPRENTICE-PRODUCED PSA FOR ILLUMINATION'S FILM 'MIGRATION,' AND THE NGO INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE

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TODAY SHOW FEATURES VENICE ARTS' APPRENTICE-PRODUCED PSA FOR ILLUMINATION ENTERTAINMENT'S LATEST FILM, "MIGRATION," AND THE NGO INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE.

Featured in TODAY

Why some ads for the new movie ‘Migration’ are promoting a nonprofit bird rescue

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Venice arts on the kelly clarkson show

Featured in THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW

Center for creative workforce equity students promote International Bird Rescue PSA

Featured in ACCESS DAILY


2022

Venice Arts’ Film and digital Media career pathways pilot expands

Featured in The Argonaut

Venice Arts’ Center for Creative Workforce Equity Expands Its Film + Digital Media Pilot Program

Featured in NewsWires

Venice Arts receives impact award from the Pasadena Art Alliance

Featured in Pasadena Now


Venice Arts - Fostering Young Talent in California

Feature by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

2021

Venice Art’s Pathways pilot Breaks barriers to entertainment industry

Featured in Santa Monica Daily Press

30 young people graduate from venice arts’ film and digital media career pathways pilot program

Featured in Venice Chamber of Commerce


2020

The Path Less Traveled

Featured in VeniceLiving

Venice Arts Begins weekly Series for Young Creatives

Featured in Santa Monica Daily Press

GET INSPIRED WITH VENICE ARTS’ “REMOTE VISITING ARTIST SERIES”

Featured in Venice Paparazzi

5 Tips on sharing your story through photography

Featured in PBS SoCal


2019

Venice Arts Recipient of Grace Slick’s (Jefferson Airplane) art opening

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2018

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TROOP 2 BSA SANTA MONICA AWARDS EAGLE SCOUT RANKS

Featured in Santa Monica Mirror

Outstanding Student Productions at the 52nd Annual California Student Media Festival

Featured in BroadwayWorld, PBSSoCal

Venice Arts: Celebrating 25 Years

Featured in VeniceLiving

Family Drama

Featured in The Argonaut


2017

Goodbye 2017

Featured in Yo! Venice

The Merchants of Venice

Featured in Yo! Venice, Venice Paparazzi

Venice History Through The People Raised Here

Featured in Yo! Venice

Interview with Elysa Voshell, Venice Arts

Featured in PHOTOCULTURE

Capturing a Morning Walk on the Beach

Featured in Yo! Venice

happy campers

Featured in Yo! Venice

Venice Arts Gala

Featured in LA Art Party

‘WEST OF LINCOLN PROJECT’

Featured in Yo! Venice, Blogtown: Tales and Observations, LA Weekly

To Venice With Love

Featured in Yo! Venice

Venice cinco de mayo parade

Featured in Yo! Venice

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VENICE BEACH EXPOSED: PHOTO EXHIBITION BY THE UNSCENE 

Featured in Carpe Diem! 

REVIEW: VENICE ARTS ANNUAL SPEAKEASY EVENT

Featured in LA Art Party

Meals On Wheels, After-School Programs For Kids May Face Trump Budget Knife

Featured on CBS Los Angeles

WHAT ELIMINATING THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS WOULD MEAN FOR LA 

Featured in LAist

PICKS OF "THE BEST" AT PHOTO LA BY THE STUDENTS OF VENICE ARTS

Featured in Be Art Magazine


2016

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RIVO STOPS BY ANNUAL VENICE ARTS GALA

Featured in Rivo

ARTY PARTY

Featured in Yo! Venice

SUPPORT VENICE ARTS

Featured in Yo! Venice

venice arts celebrates 23 years

Featured in Huffington Post and Yo! Venice

portraits document women and the grains tied to their ancestral homeland

Featured in KCET

as national parks turn 100, worry begins about next 100

Featured in Fronteras

power and persistence opens at venice arts

Featured in LA Art Party

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access, equity & justice for venice youth

Featured in Rivo

party at the polls

Featured in Yo! Venice and Storify

vote for the primary today at venice arts 

Featured in Yo! Venice

help send a kid to camp

Featured in Yo! Venice

art in the spirit of collaboration

Featured in The Argonaut

art fair review

Featured in Be-Art Magazine

venice arts presents whiskey, prizes, and all that jazz

Featured in LA Art Party and Venice Paparazzi

arts and craft drinks at townhouse

Featured in Yo! Venice

video: venice locals support venice arts 

Featured in Westside Today


2015

nea awards more than $4 million to california arts projects 

Featured in KPCC

event review: venice arts 22nd anniversary gala

Featured in LA Art Party

venice arts open show #31

Featured in LA Art Party

documentary-focused ambulante california announces 2015 film festival lineup 

Featured in Indiewire and Evensi

venice arts student receives warner bros. honorship

Featured in Yo! Venice

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disaster is my muse exhibition

Featured in Art Walk News

support venice arts and meet lady gaga and tony bennett

Featured in Huffington Post, Yo! Venice and Santa Monica Daily Press

student photos exhibiting at santa monica gallery

Featured in The Vista Press

Venice arts presents: iron ladies of liberia free film

Featured in Yo! Venice and Indie Libre

women and war

Featured in The Argonaut, Photography Now, and L'oeil de la Photographie

marissa roth: one person crying

Featured in LENSCRATCH, LA Art Party and Asia Society

Venice arts ignites creative imagination

Featured in Yo! Venice

venice arts and bangkok-based center for people and forests release short film series voices of the forests

Featured in The Sacramento Bee, Daily News LA, Reuters, and Yahoo Finance