LA Commons

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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 better understanding of Los Angeles.

08/28/2026

😯 Did you see that really fun billboard up on Hollywood & Wilcox or Cienega & Sunset? You still have time to pull up and see it for yourself ✨🌴

These billboards highlight the Historic South LA Black Cultural District’s new “Featured Destinations” program! 🔥 The Black Cultural District was created to celebrate the community’s rich cultural heritage while helping more people discover everything the district has to offer – starting with showcasing this network of amazing food-based businesses!

AND August is Black Business Month! 🖤🛍️🤎 Shop and support your local Black-owned businesses this month and every month!! Visit bcdla.org/featured-destinations or click the link 🔗 in our bio to start planning your shopping list and stay in the loop for future Featured Destination rollouts 😜

📸 Photo Credit: Kim Espinosa

08/27/2026

🖤 “The Heartbeat of Culture” exhibit will be closing this Sunday, August 30th. You’re invited to join us for a closing celebration, where you can also meet the curators and select photographers

💫 Don’t miss your last chance to see the beautiful pieces photographed by our lovely Leimert Park participants, curated by workshop lead Halline Overby (Haylow (Halline)) and co-lead Momodu Mansaray (Momodu Mansaray)

“The Heartbeat of Culture” is the culmination of a 14-week Leimert Park photography workshop series inspired by the “Photography and the Black Arts Movement (1955–1985)” exhibit at Getty ✨

📸 The photographs featured are a documentation of spaces, stories and everyday moments that contribute to the living culture and identity of Leimert Park. View the village through their lens!

📅 Closing Event, Sun. August 30th from 12 - 2PM
📍 ORA Cafe (ORA Urban Cafe) | 4331 Degnan Blvd.

08/26/2026

Are you ready to celebrate?! 🎨🎉 LA Commons will be celebrating FOUR new mural panels and FIVE new utility box artworks that were made in Pacoima, for Pacoima, with Pacoima community! 💖

🤝 LA Commons has partnered with Pacoima Beautiful, The Trust for Public Land, Tia Chucha’s and other local partners to transform public spaces in Pacoima through community-centered art. This project engaged local artists, youth apprentices, and community members to create murals and utility box artworks that reflect Pacoima’s unique stories, values, and cultural connections to sustainability and the environment.

☀️ We’ll be celebrating these new public artworks with Pacoima Beautiful at their Prende El Sol event. You can expect music, food and solar activities happening while also admiring the beautiful new pieces of art.

And you’ll even be able to meet the talented artists behind the stunning art! 🖌️✨ Join us in celebrating artists Elvia Aguirre, Litzy Del Valle, Kimberly Guzman, Nico Martinez, Juan Pablo Reyes, Desiree Sanchez – and of course, our amazing Pacoima youth artists!

See you in the valley! 🍊💚🦋

📆 Saturday, August 29th
⏰ 11AM - 12:30PM
📍 Pacoima City Hall, 13520 Van Nuys Blvd

08/24/2026

🌟 We are thrilled to announce Prophet Walker as one of our honorees at the 2026 Colors of Connection Gala 🎉

💚 Prophet Walker is an amazing community advocate, entrepreneur and the founder of Treehouse Co-Living and Community Labs! He is from Watts in South LA, and is always giving back to his community. Perfectly aligned with LA Commons, he centers cultivating joy and connection within community. He shares more below:

“LA Commons has spent decades proving what I’ve always believed: healthy neighborhoods aren’t just built with brick and mortar, they’re built with culture, stories, art and shared memory. To be honored by the organization that helps South LA tell its own story alongside people whose shoulders I stand on, means more than I can say. It’s why Leimert Park isn’t just surviving, it’s rising.”

🌱✨ Community Labs builds the future of resilient communities, rooted in culture. Its direct investments like reopening Harun Coffee and supporting Lore bookstore and ORA Cafe along Degnan Boulevard are only part of the story. Community Labs’ deepest value is as a conductor: convening and supporting the ecosystem reimagining Leimert Park together. Pairing capital with deep community partnership, legacy businesses don’t just survive change – they lead it.

🥳 Join us on Thursday, Oct. 15th to celebrate the amazing impact that Prophet Walker has made on our communities! 🔗 Tickets are in the link in bio!

🗓️ RSVP deadline by Monday, Sept. 14th

08/19/2026

🎉 The Colors of Connection Gala tickets are on sale and you don’t want to miss it!!

This year’s theme is “Rooted and Rising” 🌴💪🏾 a celebration of LA Commons’ role as a key partner of the newly designated Historic South LA Black Cultural District and the communities, artists, and cultural leaders whose work continues to preserve, celebrate, and shape South LA’s rich cultural legacy. 💙💖 Supporting the Colors of Connection Gala allows LA Commons to continue offering high quality arts and cultural programming all across South LA.

Our Development Manager, Sara, shares “That’s what I love about the Gala. It’s not just a fundraiser. It’s a chance for all of us to come together and celebrate the people and diverse communities who are all part of the journey to ‘create cultural connections.’”

We will be honoring the following folks at the gala for their meaningful contributions to Los Angeles and incredible lasting impact on Historic South LA:

🌟 Prophet Walker – Community advocate, entrepreneur and founder of Treehouse Co-Living

☀️ Lauren Halsey – Acclaimed artist (she’ll also be producing original artwork that will be carried throughout the gala’s visual identity!)

💫 Dr. Robert K. Ross – Philanthropic leader, and retired President & CEO of The California Endowment (The California Endowment)

We hope to see you on Thursday, October 15th at the Skirball Cultural Center for a night of celebration and joy! 💝🥳

🔗 Tickets are in the link in bio!
🗓️ RSVP deadline by Monday, Sept. 14th

08/14/2026

Located at the 🟣Metro D Line Fairfax station is the beautiful mural, “Hands and Things” by artist Karl Haendel (Karl Haendel).

🫶 This piece features hands of community members holding functional objects, crafted locally and spanning from the prehistoric era to today. Each object tells a story of the neighborhood’s identity. The artwork itself aims to showcase the cultural richness and generational diversity of the surrounding community. 💖

👀 And you may also notice a familiar hand at the top right… You guessed it! That hand belongs to our wonderful Executive Director, Karen Mack!

🚆 Karen is a public transit champion! She is an avid rider, constantly taking the Metro to her meetings and to community events, and uplifting the importance of public transportation by example.

Shoutout to Metro Art Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the wonderful public transportation and beautiful art to go along with it! ❣️💜

08/12/2026

We love Leimert Park! 🌴♥️

Leimert Park is home to LA Commons’ annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks, our office space shared in Ben R Caldwell, and is one of our core neighborhoods where we engage youth artists and resident advisors in arts and cultural programming! ✨🎨

📸 These pictures were taken by Kim Espinosa, our 2026 LA County Department of Arts and Culture Intern working on our Development team!

🎓📚 Kim is a recent graduate of Northwestern University with a BS in Communication Studies and Cognitive Science and a minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Through organizing, design work and education, she’s dedicated to improving health outcomes and community well-being by expanding equitable access to community services. She tells us more about her experience below:

“My favorite part of the internship has been connecting with more parts of the city through LA Commons’ presence at community events. Joining this year’s Festival of Masks as one of my first events during the internship was a reminder about how valuable public events are to community empowerment and healing. I hope traditions like this continue to grow in Leimert Park and beyond.

“Photographing South LA brings me a lot of joy because I see the commonalities between L.A.’s neighborhoods. Many similarities stand out to me, but one I want to especially highlight is how the community is protecting and uplifting the spaces that one grew up going to, as well as the celebration of the many cultures present. From the storefronts to the murals, the diverse elements that make up the community are integral to placekeeping. It’s amazing to see and be part of efforts that LA Commons does to uplift that!”

🎉 Thank you for uplifting our home and amazing core neighborhood, Kim! We are so happy to have you as part of the team 💚

08/07/2026

🎭 On June 28th, LA Commons hosted our 16th annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks!!

Every year, this festival is hosted in Leimert Park – the cultural heartbeat of Black Los Angeles. 🥁💃🏾✨🤎 And every year we uplift these powerful histories, cultures and identities of Leimert Park and South LA by celebrating the legacies of our ancestors! This year, we honored S. Pearl Sharp, Meri Ka Ra, Aiysha Sinclair, Horace Tapscott, and Kimberly Bolanile Paggett.

We hope you enjoy this beautiful recap of multicultural, multigenerational and multimedia celebration grounded in the vast identities of African diaspora. 🎶🎨

Huge shoutouts to all of our amazing performers, our inspiring ancestors, our community partners, for sharing space with us, and all of you who came through!❣️ Thank you for making this event more energetic and more meaningful every year.

🌟 What part of Festival of Masks do you miss the most? Let us know in the comments! Our most missed part is having fun and dancing with everyone… next year’s Festival can’t come soon enough!

🎥 Video by Halline Overby Haylow (Halline)
📸 Photography by Bobby Quillard Bobby Quillard

07/06/2026

📣 Join our team!! ✨ LA Commons is searching for a Program Coordinator to be an integral part of our staff!

📝❤️ The Program Coordinator will provide support to our Partnerships function by nurturing relationships with organizational partners and community members. This role is specifically designed to support programming with our placekeeping partnerships, including Cultural Treasures of South LA (), the Historic South LA Black Cultural District, Keeping Place For Culture and other relevant programs.

Apply using the link in bio 🔗 or tag a friend who’d be a perfect fit for LA Commons! 🌟

📅 Deadline to apply: Fri. July 17, 2026

06/30/2026

🎉 Tickets to our 2nd annual Colors of Connection Gala are on sale now!!

✨ We are beyond excited to announce and welcome Supervisor , LA County 2nd District, as our emcee, as well as our stellar lineup of 2026 honorees who have all exemplified a transformative impact on arts, culture and community in Los Angeles, listed below:

💚 Prophet Walker – Community advocate, entrepreneur and founder of Treehouse Co-Living

🧡 Lauren Halsey – Acclaimed artist, you know her, you love her ... (and if you haven't already, go visit sister dreamer!!)

🩷 Dr. Robert K. Ross – Philanthropic leader, and retired President & CEO of The California Endowment ()

This year’s theme, Rooted and Rising, reflects LA Commons’ commitment to investing in neighborhoods, fostering opportunity and building foundations that support thriving communities across Los Angeles, from advancing cultural preservation to the official state designation of South LA as a Black Cultural District. 🖤🤎

How excited are you?! 🥳 We can’t wait!

📅 Thursday, October 15, 2026
⏰ Reception 6PM, Program 7:30PM
📍 Skirball Cultural Center
🔗 Tickets and sponsorships in the link in bio!

Address

4343 Leimert Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
90008

Telephone

+13237920366

Website

https://linktr.ee/lacommons, https://la-commons-1.monkeypod.io/give/support-la-commons-FY26

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