RAP Newsletter 030
- Keeping Up with Our Partners: Stay connected with their important work into the future
- Art On View: Tupac, DTLA oak tree forest, and more!
- RAP Resources: Bending space, statement of values, oral history archives…
RAP Newsletter 029
- Featured Events: Join our RAP faculty at Ku’er Worlds and South of Expo!
- Calendar: YA Fiction Day, Earth Day, and Screenings galore!
- Art On View: Must see shows at the Hammer, VPAM, ICA LA and more!
- RAP Chats: Karen Mack and Annette Kim
RAP Newsletter 028
- Featured Events: RAP’s Edgar Arceneaux at Vielmetter Los Angeles
- RAP Seed Grantees 2022: sprouting with our wonderful community partners!
- Calendar: Concert, zine workshops and map making, oh my!
- Art On View: So many! Inlcuding Roski alum noé olivas’ solo debut!
RAP Newsletter 027
- Featured Events: Nao Bustamante and Wooden People!
- Calendar: No More Tears!
- Art on View: Lorna Simpson Everrrything!
RAP Newsletter 026
- Featured Events: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Dictee Marathon Reading!
- Calendar: Native American Women in Animation!
- Art on View: Obama Portraits and Black American Portraits!
- RAP Chats: Public Matters with David Sloane!
RAP Newsletter 025
- Featured Events: Harry Shum Jr. and family time with CAAM!
- Calendar: Street Vendors and the Inconstant World!
- Art on View: Galleries and museums are reopening!
- RAP Chats: Critical Media Project with Allison Trope and Enrique Legaspi
RAP Newsletter 024
- Featured Events: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s sequel!
- Calendar: civic commemorative justice in Santa Monica, pleasure and pandemonium…
- RAP Chats: Meet two more new RAP faculty!
- Art On View: Doors are finally opening!
RAP Newsletter 023
- RAP Newsletter 023
- Featured Event: Ice-T!
- Calendar: Stay engaged and connected during Black History Month
- RAP Chats: Meet two of RAP’s newest faculty members!
RAP Newsletter 022
- Featured Event: Healing Holiday Marketplace
- Introducing our RAP Seed Grantees
- Calendar: Whirlybird film screening and a virtual dinner party!
- Art On View: Harold Mendez and Lecia Dole-Recio
- Classes: Taj Frazier, Lanita Jacobs, and more!
RAP Newsletter 021
- RAP Statement of Values: a new vision of university-community relations
- RAP Featured Event: Racial Radical: Generating New Woke Words…
- Calendar: the Moth Virtual, Funmilola, and more
- Art On View: Crenshaw Dairy Mart, Ser todo Es ser parte at LACE, and Patty Chang’s “Milk Debt”
- RAP Chats: Dulce Ibarra on making art during the pandemic.
RAP Newsletter 019
- Featured Events: Freedom of Speech Town Hall, Gentrification Forum
- Calendar: Dance with d. Sabela Grimes, Poetry with Joy Harjo, and more!
- Art On View: Calida Rawles, PAM celebrates Asian Artists in Los Angeles…
- RAP Chats: Interview with Ben Caldwell of KAOS Network
RAP Newsletter 018
- RAP Featured Event: Unbreakable Resolve: Free-Dem Foundations at USC!
- Calendar: Roski MFA Closing program, Moly Kane, Jane Kaisen, and more.
- RAP Chats: Interview with Neelam Sharma of Community Services Unlimited!
- Art On View: Art+Practice and Hammer Museum collaborate on Collective Constellation…
RAP Newsletter 017
- RAP Featured Event: Slow Jam on Vermont and Exposition!
- Calendar: Charles Gaines, Spoken Justice, Reform LA Jails tackle Mental Health for their Arts Summit and more!
- Art on View: Do Ho Suh, Shirin Neshat, Serge Attukwei, and more!
RAP Newsletter 016
- RAP Featured Event: RACIAL RADICALS Happening Thursday
- Calendar: The Festival for All Skid Row Artists on its 10th Anniversary!
- Art on View: Oh’s Korean queer spaces, George Rodriguez, and Julie Mehretu!
- RAP CHAT: with Chelo Montoya of CAAM and LACMA
RAP Newsletter 015
- RAP Featured Events: Back to School With Spatial Imaginaries and Racial Radicals!
- Calendar: Nightlife’s role in Activism!
- Art On View: Meditation on Migration and more!
RAP Newsletter 014
- Featured Event: Teens, Media Arts, and Belonging.
- Calendar: Photoville, Black Ocean, #OSCARSSOWHITE, and more!
- Art On View: GANAS DE EXISTIR! at Angels Gate and more!
RAP Newsletter 013
- Featured Events: Jails and Justice, Suzanne Lacey retrospective!
- Calendar: FOSTER screening, Lackawanna Blues, and more!
- Art On View: Dinh Q. Lê, Roski Students at LACE and Charlie James Gallery!
- RAP Playlist: Listen to the songs we selected this year!
RAP Newsletter 012
- Featured Events: Cultural Organizing, Decolonizing Space…
- Calendar: Say Her Name Screening at the Hammer and more!
- RAP Chats: Dr. Matt Miller’s night at Mic Sessions
- Art On View: Suzanne Lacy’s Retrospective in SF!
- Conferences: Transformative Arts Network meeting at UCSB
RAP Newsletter 011
- Featured RAP Events: Paul Robeson and Questionbridge
- Calendar: Race Relay, K-Pop Radicalism?, and Female Incarceration
- Announcement: RAP receives three more years of continued funding!
- Art On View: Hernandez, Pruitt, Ligon, Alekhuogie, Sabur, and more!
- Books: USC Book RoundUp
RAP Newsletter 010
- RAP Covered: Hank Willis Thomas and Viet Thanh Nguyen
- RAP Spring Classes
- Calendar: Abolitionists, Unruly Bodies, Gyopos, and more…
- Art On View: Open Studios, Jennifer Moon, and more…
RAP Newsletter 009
- Featured Event: Transformative Scholarship Through the Arts
- RAP Class in Paris!
- Featured Podcast: Red Nation Films and Price Projection Room
- Calendar: Terry Crews on Radical Self Care and More…
- Art On View: Nao Bustamante at the Broad…
- Rap Chats: Interview With RAP’s Dulce Soledad Ibarra
RAP Newsletter 008
- Featured Events: Writing and Refugees, Fela Resistance
- Calendar: Fandango, Resistance, Civic Engagement
- Art On View: Ai Weiwei LA Takeover and more!
RAP Newsletter 007
- Featured Events: Refugee Block Party this Monday!
- RAP Seed Grantees: meet our first cohort!
- RAP-themed Classes: Suzanne Lacy, Taj Frazier, Alison Trope
- Calendar: Arts Activism in Little Tokyo, Jose Antonio Vargas
- Art On View: Halsey, Defer, Abney…
RAP Newsletter 006
- RAP Community Workshop: meet our community partners!
- Symposia Report: Social Practice Art
- Calendar: prints, masks, innovation
- Art on View: Youn Il Ahn and more!
- Rap Chats: Interview with Ryan Lutz!
RAP Newsletter 005
- Featured Events: Towne and Bates’ Black Spatial Imaginary
- Calendar: Pop-ups, Plastics, Carnaval, and more
- Art On View: Mark Bradford and more
- Vid of the Week: Making Black Panther’s “Wakanda”
RAP Newsletter 004
- Featured Events: Theaster Gates and Naima Keith
- Calendar: Placemaking and Black history banners
- RAP Chats: RAP Interview with acclaimed actor John Cho
- Research Notes: Creative placemaking and 70s Black art
- RAP Jams: Going classical with Cho
- LA Places: St. Elmo’s Village, and more
- Art On View: Latinx art and Watts’ Civil rights museum
- Classes: RAP class is back, Safiya Noble, and more
- Vid of the Week: Highlights from RAP conference
RAP Newsletter 003
- Featured Events: Jody Armour, Elyse Thomas, and John Cho!
- Calendar: Hacking humanities, race and gender in TV, and gentrification!
- Research Notes: Mapping indigeneity and NYTimes on hidden Black visual history!
- RAP Jams: Gil Scott-Heron and more!
- Art On View: Afro-Brazilian metropolises, Ken Gonzales, and more!
- L.A. Places: Venice Beach Flying Carousel?
- Classes: Annette Kim brings back RAP Class, and more!
- Vid of the Month: Geographer Katherine McKittrick @ Berkeley!
- Jobs & Opportunities: Creative Cities @ Stanford, Post-Doc @ Northwestern!
RAP Newsletter 002
- Featured Events: Suzanne Lacy and LZ Granderson!
- Calendar: Kimora Lee Simmons, Debbie Allen, and more!
- RAP Chats: RAP Faculty Meeting kicks off year!
- RAP Jams: Jazzy rifts from Johnny Otis, and more!
- Art on View: La Raza and more!
- Vid of the Week: Josh Kun + Eve Ewing!
RAP Newsletter 001
- Featured Events: Jamel Mims and Suzanne Lacy!
- Calendar: Comedy, rebellion, drag, and poetry!
- RAP Chats: Interview with Matt Miller!
- Classes: Rochelle Steiner, Josh Kun, and more!
- RAP Jams: Freestyle Fellowship and Jungle Fire!
- Art On View: Star Montana, and more!