Embedding this role is critical toward a more responsive, inclusive government that centers the lived experiences of immigrants and their families throughout Los Angeles County.

Selected from a competitive pool of applicants, the funded proposals include visual arts, performances, public installations, and youth engagement, each one reinforcing San Pedro’s standing as an emerging creative hub for artistic innovation and community-driven storytelling.

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Misty Copeland said of the mural: “I’m incredibly honored to be featured in this stunning mural by El Mac at San Pedro City Ballet, my very first ballet studio and a place that will always feel like home. What he’s captured through my image is so much bigger than me, it represents every young person from this community and beyond who deserves access to the arts. This is such a beautiful tribute to where it all began for me.”

Despite having plowed through more than my fair share of Western literary canon, I’ve never read a word of Robert Louis Stevenson. So although I was familiar with the underlying premise of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (isn’t everyone? Is there any title phrase this side of “Romeo and Juliet” that’s proven so successful at transmitting its referent to people who don’t actually know the work itself?), I came to Long Beach Playhouse with no point of comparison — and left completely satisfied.

The work that goes on view at the Palos Verdes Art Center is largely from the last 30 years, a carefully chosen selection of shapes and designs that also reveals the evolution of Johnson’s thinking and experiments in wood and resin and color and, more recently, his focus on two different forms of art, the geometric and the biomorphic, one hard-edged and the other visually pliable.