Learn More About Arts & Ecologically Aligned Grassroots Movements
& Organizations (Mostly) Throughout Los Angeles
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Clockshop
Clockshop works with artists to deepen the connection between communities and public land, in order to build a shared vision of a future based in belonging and care.
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No Canyon Hills
NO CANYON HILLS is dedicated to the conservation, restoration, and longterm stewardship of open space in the Verdugos. Working with a team of dedicated field researchers, NCH has identified more than 350 species at the ‘Canyon Hills’ site, including the Southern CA Rufous-crowned Sparrow, a threatened species.
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Test Plot
Test Plot is an organization that partners with community members to help steward public lands. The rapproach is experimental, testing and teaching regenerative and reciprocal land-based practices. They bring together residents, land managers and students to build a shared land ethic. Test Plots are open to all with an invitation to visit and get involved.
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MAK Center for Art & Architecture
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is a contemporary, experimental, multi-disciplinary center for art and architecture headquartered in three significant architectural works by the Austrian-American architect R.M. Schindler. Offering a year-round schedule of exhibitions and events, the MAK Center presents programming that challenges conventional notions of architectural space and relationships between the creative arts.
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Metabolic Studio
Metabolic Studio is an interdisciplinary art and research hub based in Los Angeles, California. Directed by artist Lauren Bon, the studio operates with a mission to explore and address critical social and environmental issues through art interventions and innovative projects aimed at reparation.
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LAND
Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) connects people and places through art to deepen a sense of belonging by commissioning site-responsive free public art and programs.
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7th Ave Garden with David Horvitz
The 7th Ave Garden, a collaboration between David Horvitz and David Godshall of TERREMOTO, is a vibrant oasis in Los Angeles. Born from a vacant lot next to Horvitz's studio, it blends reclaimed materials, native flora, and intentional design, guided by TERREMOTO. Incorporating elements from demolished structures and indigenous trees, it represents a departure from traditional ecological narratives, inviting visitors to reconnect with nature amidst the city's hustle.
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Herb Club LA
Herb Club LA, founded by Andrea Jimenez, was created to make space to help people reconnect with nature and with each other. This is is a crucial step to improve the health of individuals, communities, and our environment. ultimately, we gather to learn about our plant kin, hoping to plant the seed to become better land stewards (inside & out).
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Art In The Park
Since 1996, Art in the Park has provided arts and cultural programming to our community in Northeast Los Angeles.
They provide our neighborhood low- to no-cost arts and educational programs for all ages, and organize workshops, exhibitions, and performances by local and visiting artists and educators, creating new opportunities for local access to contemporary and historical arts programs relevant to our part of the city.
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Theadore Payne Foundation
Theodore Payne Foundation (TPF) is a nonprofit organization that inspires and educates Southern Californians about the beauty and ecological benefits of California native plants. Located on 22 acres of canyon land in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, the TPF headquarters includes a full-service nursery featuring native plants, seeds, and nature-themed books and merchandise, alongside display gardens, wildland hiking trails, an art gallery, indoor and outdoor educational facilities, and extensive plant production areas. TPF invites all to explore the role of native plants in local ecology, aiming to make the communities of Southern California more beautiful, sustainable, and environmentally friendly.
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Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque is one of the United States' leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with the largest collection of new poetry books for sale and an archive that houses over 40,000 books, including small press and limited-edition publications, chronicling the history of poetry movements in Los Angeles and beyond.
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Plant Material
Plant Material is an ecologically and aesthetically opinionated store selling horticulture, garden tools and art objects of consequence. They believe that as individuals, families and communities, the time has come for us to begin tending our gardens and our city with a new ethic and reinvigorated botanical point of view.
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Teapot Gardens
Teapot is a paradise garden that cultivates love of the outdoors as a catalyst for creativity, community healing, and co-creation by connecting artists and intergenerational families in park-deprived neighborhoods.
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Tomorrow Today
Tomorrow Today is a bookstore, rapid response press, community space, and sooo much more located right in the heart of Chinatown. Through A+ curation Tomorrow Today bears the torch of a classic info shop in LA, carrying radical texts and zines that educate and inspires the movements of tomorrow, today.
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Active Cultures
Active Cultures is a public arts organization in Los Angeles exploring the confluence of food and art through public projects, programs, and publishing.
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2220 Arts + Archives
Operating as a volunteer-run community arts center, 2220 is an interdisciplinary event space that is focused on experimentation, improvisation and adventure across a broad spectrum of artists and art practices. Its calendar is curated and cooperatively programmed by roughly a dozen LA-based independent programmers and cultural nonprofits, including many that are longstanding in the city.
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SPY Community Garden
Located at 681 N. Venice Blvd, Safe Place for Youth’s Community Garden addresses food inequality by creating a sustainable food system for unhoused youth in West LA. Organic produce grown in the garden is distributed to SPY’s Access Center and five housing sites. SPY's Garden also offers paid internships and workshops for youth to develop life skills while cultivating self-esteem and self-sufficiency in a safe, healing environment.
The SPY Community Garden, in partnership with Beyond Baroque, also hosts compost bins operated by LA Compost. These compost bins are open to the public!
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100 Acre Partnership
The City of Los Angeles, California State Parks and the Mountains and Recreation Conservation Authority (MRCA) are formally working together as the “100 Acre Partnership” to collaboratively plan the largest, continuous open space along the LA River. The Partnership evolved from community and stakeholder feedback and the need for a coordinated planning and improvement approach across the 100-acre Taylor Yard site. Our fourth partner, the community, is critical to the success of these efforts.
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Muddy Heaven Farm
Muddy Heaven is an urban farm project that began in a vacant lot in Highland Park in February 2021. With the help of friends on the weekends, we slowly dug beds and planted flowers, veggies, and herbs. Our all ages programming weaves together farming, cooking and play in order to build radical relationships with ourselves and each other. Our organically grown food, flowers, and herbs are distributed to the community through programming, CSA shares, and donations to local mutual aid networks.
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Vintage Synthesizer Museum
A jewel of Los Angeles, the Highland Park cradled Vintage Synth Museum is an active recording studio that opens its doors once or twice a month for inimate happenings. Lance is an angel, please show support!
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Scribble
Scribble is a non-profit counseling and arts center located in Highland Park, Los Angeles. They offer affordable individual, couples, group, and family therapy sessions on a sliding scale. Services are available in person as well as through telehealth in the state of California.
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Heavy Manners Library
Heavy Manners is a lending library, gallery, and bookstore that seeks to provide a space for developing, sharing, and discussing artwork and creative practice.
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Human Resources
Human Resources was founded in 2010 by a team of creative individuals who seek to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression. Human Resources is not-for-profit and seeks to foster widespread public appreciation of the performative arts by encouraging maximum community access. Human Resources also serves as a point of convergence for diverse and disparate art communities to engage in conversation and idea-sharing promoting the sustainability of non-traditional art forms.
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Radical Gardening
Radical Gardening was planted with houseless nieghbors in Echo Park, Los Angeles to build community and coexistence in a time of local encampment sweeps, global uncertainty, and ecological crisis. This garden rose up on the lawn-covered ground where an 18-year-old houseless girl, Brianna, died, her death never investigated due to lack of the city’s care. Building community from that very moment of dehumanization, building new life from death, Radical Gardening is the coming together and planting seeds with hopeful intentions, being present with the terra and with each other.
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For The Wild
For The Wild Podcast is an anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on land-based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth and consumerism.
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Reflections
An immersive curatorial platform for sound, light, and space. It’s a place to be. A space to dream. Each night pairs a legend of new age and ambient music with cinematic visuals, uniting sound, light, and sacred architecture for a uniquely visceral experience.
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Agriculture
Agriculture, and not in the literal sense, but close. A series of engagements in creative cultivation. A loosely-monthly series of gatherings curated by Cached.Media set to occur in places both usual and unusual on the Colorado Front Range. They are as close as anyone to the dirt here and this is an adventure in growing things together.