Ongoing Projects
Community & Unity People's Kite Festival
Clockshop hosts an annual Community & Unity People’s Kite Festival at Los Angeles State Historic Park, next to Chinatown. This family-friendly cultural festival brings together diverse communities in Los Angeles through the art of kites and a day of joyful connection in this important public green space.
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Summer Art & Advocacy Youth Fellowship
Clockshop’s Summer Art & Advocacy Youth Fellowship is a 6-week-long, cohort-based summer program for a small group of high school students in Northeast Los Angeles. The program combines public space advocacy training with natural exploration and art-making.
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Play is a Wild Thing
The concrete banks of the LA River exist as a channel for water, but what unintended possibilities do they hold? Shifting our scale into miniature through a visit to the river model at the Inclusive Infrastructure Design Lab (IIDL) in Elysian Valley, we are able to zoom out and literally get a new perspective on the beloved Glendale Narrows section of Payme Paxaayt (Los Angeles River).
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The Light of Many Suns
Clockshop has been collaborating with artist April Banks and Kounkey Design Initiative on a permanent public art installation at the first Jackie Robinson Park in America in Sun Village of the Antelope Valley. The park’s history reflects the resilience of African-American communities in Los Angeles – and in Sun Village in particular – and their desire to find belonging and community after fleeing discriminatory housing practices, or redlining, in the urban core of the city.
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What Water Wants
In a 30-minute binaural audio experience, Rosten Woo activates the Glendale Narrows channel as an aperture to situate visitors within the hydrological networks of the greater Los Angeles Basin, one of the city’s most misunderstood and complex infrastructural systems.
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Take Me to Your River
Take Me to Your River: A Cultural Atlas of the LA River, is a three-year collective history and cultural mapping project of the Northeast LA neighborhoods that surround the LA River, including Elysian Valley, Atwater Village, Cypress Park, and Glassell Park.
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Reading & Listening by Moonrise
Listening by Moonrise is a seasonal music series, held at the Los Angeles State Historic Park on the eve of the full moon.
