What job applicants in the arts need to know now. By Camille Schenkkan Even if you’re an artist, you’re going to have to submit a standard job application at some point in your life. I’m Camille Schenkkan and in my job at Center Theatre Group, I see up to 400 applications annually for our internship program and many for full- …
Want to get in the mood for Halloween? Enjoy this fast paint video by Carlos Nieto III. In celebration of Halloween and Day of the Dead traditions, Carlos Nieto III did a fast paint of a spooky skull in his studio for Artzray. Carlos is an artist of Colombian roots born and raised in Los Angeles. Growing in the area …
Known for their innovative work remixing and rearranging Shakespeare’s texts, the Ensemble Shakespeare Theatre Company has produced their first new independent film Lear’s Shadow which will premiere at the Pasadena International Film Festival this month. The film puts audiences in the middle of a simple story of friendship and loss. The story begins in the days following an accident, as two …
Estevan Mykhail Guzman is an artist and animator at the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles, CA who self-identifies as a “space artist”. With such high interest all over the country in astronomy due to the recent solar eclipse, we wanted to know how he came to have such an usual job and what got him into this line of creative …
Guest post by Robert Moya Call it a dream come true for The Fusion, a middle school rock band who will be traveling to New Your City to open for Elvis Costello and Bonnie Raitt, as part of the Little Kid’s Rock Benefit 2017 on October 18th at PlayStation Theater. The Fusion, formed a year ago from a modern band …
Featured photo by Tomasz Rosa, Bodytraffic Guest Post by Jeff Slayton Dance in Los Angeles is as diverse as the city’s population. It includes over 100 dance companies and over 300 dance artists ranging from ballet to hip hop. Since the early 1900s, California has trained a large majority of America’s dancers with its vast network of colleges and universities …
The dance scene in Los Angeles is ever changing, but the Los Angeles Dance Festival isn’t going anywhere. Presented by Brockus Project Dance and Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz (TRK) the fifth edition of LADF is here to connect the community to high quality affordable dance concerts. Committed to fostering and promoting the vibrant art of dance that is being created in …
Leading parallel lives, animators Will Cuna and Drew Adams met in high school through the Ryman Arts program, but hadn’t caught up with each other for almost 10 years. Both were trained at CalArts and have both gone on to successful careers – one at DreamWorks the other at Disney. Will is originally from the Philippines, but grew up in …
Dave Leon, the founder and director of Painted Brain answers some questions for Artzray about the intersection of art, mental health and community. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is driven in his work with Painted Brain by a vision of a world in which mental illness is truly accepted as one more aspect of the beautiful tapestry …