Anna Luisa Petrisko (she/her) works in video, performance, sound, installation, textiles, and interactive media. Her art is invested in the sacred as much as it is interested in technological speculation, exploring future and ancient ideas at a non-linear tempo. She investigates the body as a site of paradox - transcendent of time, space and form. Her work is grounded in community and archiving histories. She collaborates with many artists and friends. These shared works build relationships and cultural communion.

Image by David Park, Image Source: KQED.

Sharon Chohi Kim’s work as a voice artist, performer and composer includes immersive experimental opera, performance art, improvisation, sound art and site-specific space activation through movement and voice. As a Korean American female artist, she is interested in human connection across cultures and generations, transgenerational trauma of the Korean diaspora, and domestic and sexual violence. By engaging in the act of breathing as a right, she uses the voice and body as a direct channel of protest and resistance. She fills spaces with sonic vibrations, exploring relationships between people and the space in which they occupy, inquiring into healing between humans and the earth. Through improvisation, she explores human and non-human states of being, enthusiastically discovering new ways in which her voice can sound. Sharon Chohi has performed with the LA Philharmonic, the Industry Opera Company, Long Beach Opera, MOCA, at Walt Disney Hall, the Broad Museum, the Getty Center and Villa, in caves, tunnels, mountains, gardens, and in water.

Lazaro Arvizu Jr. is an artist, educator, musician, and researcher dedicated to the culture of the first people of Los Angeles. Born in the Los Angeles Basin, he is knowledgeable of the landscape and cosmology of the Gabrieleno culture. He has worked for over 20 years facilitating creative and meaningful cultural experiences to people of all ages and walks of life, in many venues.

dublab is a Los Angeles-based, community-supported internet radio station and creative collective dedicated to the growth of positive music, arts, and culture. Founded in 1999, dublab has been broadcasting since the “dot-com era” with the mission to share forward-thinking, freeform radio with an international audience. dublab’s programming has since expanded to include the production of original art exhibits, films, television, events, and community education projects as well as broadcast on affiliate stations in Germany, Japan, Spain, and Brazil.

Each month, dublab showcases over 180 radio shows from some of the world’s most talented DJs, musicians, journalists, and artists. Each show is distinct and entirely freeform: we take pride in empowering our DJs to freely play the music that best shares their individual story. Beyond broadcast, dublab produces and hosts several multimedia projects and exhibits each year, most often made possible by the support of public and foundation project grants. Through local events, international broadcasts, and collaborative multimedia projects, dublab has helped define and connect the next wave of arts, music, and culture across the Los Angeles and international communities.

Tina Calderon is a Culture Bearer of Gabrielino Tongva, Chumash and Yoeme descent. She is also a traditional singer & dancer, storyteller & poet who strives to honor her ancestors and inspire others to respect the lands, water, sacred elements and environment.

LA River Public Art Project advocates for the integration of arts and culture in revitalization efforts along the River's 51-mile corridor from Canoga Park to Long Beach. Through a variety of programs and initiatives, including activations along a different stretch of the River each month, the organization promotes community-driven social spaces, sparks discussion about public space, and demonstrates the confluence of nature, art, and play.

The organization supports various civic practices that go beyond traditional forms of civic art, recognizing that art can take many forms, including social sculpture and regenerative actions created in collaboration with communities. By promoting inclusionary art-based public projects and supporting artists in their work within communities, LA River Public Art Project envisions a river environment that embraces cultural pluralism and fearlessness through a multitude of creative expressions.

Adee Roberson (b.1981, West Palm Beach, Florida) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a meditation on symbolism and texture. Synthesizing performance and installation, her work melds vibration and technicolor visions through paintings, video, and melodic compositions. These works offer a refracted timeline of black diasporic movement, weaving sonic and familial archives, with landscape, rhythm, and spirit.

They have exhibited and performed at numerous venues including, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Antenna Gallery, Project Row Houses, Palm Springs Art Museum, Human Resources , UTA Artist Space, NADA Miami, Charlie James Gallery, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, MOCA Los Angeles, and Art Gallery of Ontario. Adee has been an Artist-In-Residence at Echo Park Film Center, Treehouse Lagos, and ACRE. She is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Cutting Edge Grant and the 2021 Los Angeles Artadia Award. She is based in Los Angeles, California.

For Water is a transitional sculpture and performance work that celebrates the energy of water in our bodies, our spirits, and in the earth. Situated among an arrangement of angled, reflective panels embedded in a sea of sand (each hand carved with paths of the Los Angeles River), a vocalist will carry out a performance intended to initiate a physical resonance within viewers that creates a kinship between living bodies and water as a living body.

This configuration of site, sound, reflection, and movement will intertwine the performer and audience with the surrounding environment and its history—i.e., the river’s history. Thus, For Water will merge the past, present, and future with the mind and body, a place and its people. This project will be part of Procession, a multifaceted civic activation by Debra Scacco and Joel Garcia, which is slated to premiere next fall as a Fulcrum Arts production.

LA Commons engages communities in the creation of public art that tells their unique stories and serves as the basis for dialogue, interaction, and a shared understanding of Los Angeles.

One Grain of Sand is an eclectic gathering of visual artists, musicians, performers and educators who draw from the rich ancient tradition of puppet and mask art to build communities while creating theatrical rituals and processions that explore the hopes, dreams and challenges of these times.

S.H.I.N.E. MUWASI (in the hands of God), formed & established by Rene Fisher-Mims with an intent & purpose to spread the knowledge of West African Drum culture to women in the community. With a vision of healing, empowering, caring, and inspiring women to play the instruments of our African descent, SHINE wishes to pass on the wisdom to those who desire to gain awareness of this culture through teaching, and performing in different areas.