Category Archives: The Arts

Art Center for Kids

Art Center College of Design is an internationally recognized school of art and design located in Pasadena, California. An independent, nonprofit, four-year college, ArtCenteroffers a bachelor of fine arts or bachelor of science degree in advertising, environmental design, film, fine art, graphic design, illustration, photography, product design, and transportation design. Art Center also offers graduate programs in film, fine art, [...]

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The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is an educational and research institution .In addition to the Library, the institution displays an artcollection strong in English portraits and French eighteenth-century furniture in the mansion, and San Marino and botanical gardens that feature sections for the historic Cactus collection, the Zen Garden, the Chinese Scholar’s Garden, and many other specialtygardens. Gardens [...]

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The Armory Center for the Arts

The Armory Center for the Arts is a community arts center that offers innovative approaches to creating, exploring, and presenting the arts to students of all ages. In addition to providing an outlet for contemporary art exhibitions and performances, theArmory offers studio art classes and a variety of educational outreach programs to schools and throughout the community.. Tuition assistance [...]

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The Hammer Museum

The Hammer Museum explores the capacity of art to impact and illuminate our lives. Through its collections, exhibitions and programs, the Hammer examines the depth and diversity of artistic expression through the centuries with a special emphasis on art of our time. At the core of the Hammer’s mission is the recognition that artists play a crucial [...]

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Levitt Pavillions

The Levitt Pavilion Pasadena presents an annual summer series of 50 free music concerts, under the stars, at the historic Memorial Park band shell in the heart of Old Pasadena. This year marks our eighth season. To date, we have provided the community with 350 outstanding concerts, bringing people from all walks of life together to [...]

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Pasadena Museum of California Art

The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is dedicated to the exhibition ofCalifornia art, architecture, and design from 1850 to the present. Informed by the state’s rich mixture of cultures and inspired by its impressive geography, California arthas long been defined by a spirit of freedom and experimentation. PMCA exhibitions and educational programs explore the cultural dynamics and influences [...]

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Norton Simon Museum of Art

The Norton Simon Museum is known around the world as one of the most remarkable private art collections ever assembled. The Museum houses more than 12,000 objects, roughly 1,000 of which are on view in the galleries and gardens. Two temporary exhibition spaces feature rotating installations of artworks not on permanent display. The Museum’s online collections database presents a [...]

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Pacific Asia Museum

Established in 1971, the museum is one of only four U.S. institutions dedicated to the arts and culture of Asia and thePacific Islands, serving the city of Los Angeles and the Greater Southern California region. The museum’s mission is to bring art and people together for self-discovery, learning, and enjoyment and to promote cross-cultural understanding, illustrating points [...]

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New Vision Partners at Coral Innovation Center

The mission of the CORAL (Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning)Innovation Center is to provide high quality after-school academic & enrichment programs for the children, youth and families of Pasadena. Monday – Friday (afterschool – 5:30 PM).  Students come for academic assistance, literacy development, enrichment classes, special projects & recreation. Fridays are Fun Fridays, which include [...]

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The Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts and to nurture critical seeing by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality. The Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. To fulfill its mission, [...]

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