Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Walk The Talk, 2014. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Poverty Department.

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Walk The Talk, 2014. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Poverty Department. © Henriëtte Brouwers

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Retrospective Exhibit “Do you want the cosmetic version or the real deal? Los Angeles Poverty Department, 1985 – 2014” 2014 at the Queens Museum. Photo courtesy of the Queens Museum.

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Retrospective Exhibit “Do you want the cosmetic version or the real deal? Los Angeles Poverty Department, 1985 – 2014” 2014 at the Queens Museum. Photo courtesy of the Queens Museum.

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s “State of Incarceration” 2014 at the Queens Museum. Photo courtesy of the Queens Museum.

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s “State of Incarceration” 2014 at the Queens Museum. Photo courtesy of the Queens Museum.

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Walk The Talk 2012. Courtesy of Los Angeles Poverty Department.

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Walk The Talk 2012. Courtesy of Los Angeles Poverty Department. © Austin Hines

Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)

Fund: $50,000

LAPD and artist Rosten Woo will collaborate on the exhibition, The Back 9, a playable miniature golf course addressing current and historic zoning issues, from the origins of the SRO housing model that underpins Skid Row, to the potential endangering of the area’s affordable housing through the city’s new re:code LA initiative. To inform the exhibition’s content and design, Woo will lead free workshops with the public and LAPD company members—artists who work and live on Skid Row—and company members will also create a major theatrical performance using the golf course as their stage. The project is set to open in early 2017 at LAPD's Skid Row History Museum & Archive.

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