2025 Arts, Culture & Creativity Month launch

Pictured: Kalina Silverman with her Art of Recovery project, Big Talk, 2024

Join us for the local launch of April's Arts, Culture, & Creativity Month with a celebration in partnership with Arts for LA. The event will include a printmaking activity with Aanii Tate and Miguelaxel Bustos-Burrola of meztli projects, a tour of the "Refractions: Contemporary Indigenous Art" exhibition by artist River Garza in the Beach House Gallery, data on how our region's creative economy is doing from Otis College of Art and Design and a civic engagement and narrative building workshop led by Arts for LA. Santa Monica's Poet Laureate Anne Carmack will read her proclamation in honor of Arts Month and National Poetry Month. Music and tasty snacks round out the afternoon.

Santa Monica has marked this state observance since 2019, when Senator Ben Allen, with support from California for the Arts, was instrumental in having the state officially recognize and celebrate the arts by declaring April as Arts, Culture & Creativity Month. This initiative aims to raise visibility and awareness about the value of the arts within communities, empower arts advocates, and encourage greater investments in the arts industry and workforce. Through free events, resources, and advocacy opportunities across the state, the goal is to engage arts advocates and raise awareness of the impact of the arts within communities across the state. 

Don’t miss this inspiring afternoon of art and community - RSVP at the link to let us know you're coming!