The Billboard Creative is an organization that places art by established and emerging artists from around the world on otherwise empty billboards at major junctions across the city of Los Angeles. [1] The Billboard Creative was founded in 2015 by Adam Santelli the Founding Director, with Kim Kerscher, Director and Mona Kuhn, Creative Director. [2]
The Billboard Creative is a 501c3 not-for-profit arts organization.
The Billboard Creative was founded in Los Angeles, California in 2015 by Adam Santelli, Kim Kerscher and Mona Kuhn. It then began producing art shows by renting out unused billboard space as "art replaces advertising" [1] at some of the busiest intersections throughout Los Angeles, for an entire month, annually.
As a nonprofit group, The Billboard Creative has continued to grow by partnering with cultural institutions and distinguished artists. The organization plans to continue providing opportunities for artists to share their work with the broadest audience possible through upcoming special exhibitions, new media projects, and expanding its outdoor art shows to other cities nationwide.
Fall curated by Mona Kuhn, [3] [4] and included artists Shane Guffogg, Kim McCarty, Jack Pierson, Silvia Poloto, and Ed Ruscha.
Curated by Mona Kuhn, [5] and included artists Paul McCarthy and Alex Prager.
Curated by TBC, [6] and included artists Alex Prager, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Mona Kuhn.
Curated by Andrea Blanch, [7] and included artists Naomi Harris, Marianne Kolb, Steve Miller, Marilyn Minter, Laurie Simmons, Gerald Slota, Spencer Tunick, and Lawrence Weiner.
Tyrus Wong was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist. One of the most-influential and celebrated Asian-American artists of the 20th century, Wong was also a film production illustrator, who worked for Disney and Warner Bros. He was a muralist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as well as a greeting card artist for Hallmark Cards. Most notably, he was the lead production illustrator on Disney's 1942 film Bambi, taking inspiration from Song dynasty art. He also served in the art department of many films, either as a set designer or storyboard artist, such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Rio Bravo (1959), The Music Man (1962), PT 109 (1963), The Great Race (1965), Harper (1966), The Green Berets (1968), and The Wild Bunch (1969), among others.
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LA Freewaves, also known as Freewaves, is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization that exhibits multicultural, independent media and produces free public art projects to engage artists and audiences on current social issues. It was founded in 1989 by Anne Bray, the organization's executive director. With the support of others in the arts community, Freewaves presented its first exhibition of independent, multicultural video art at the November 1989 American Film Institute's (AFI) National Video Festival.
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