Photo by: Austin Hines
Los Angeles Poverty Department, Walk the Talk, 2022.
Photo by: Monica Nouwens
Los Angeles Poverty Department, The New Compassionate Downtown, 2022.
Cosmology and Community: Networks of Liberation at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive, installation view, 2023. Courtesy of: Los Angeles Poverty Department.
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Fund: $30,000
Los Angeles Poverty Department’s mission is to connect the experiences of people living in poverty to the sociopolitical forces that shape their lives and communities. This is achieved through multidisciplinary artworks that interweave performances, installations, exhibitions, public conversations, and archival documentation—all developed, produced, and presented collaboratively with Skid Row community members to address their emerging concerns. The Skid Row community is their primary audience–most of its 14,000 residents live below the poverty line.
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