“[Mike Davis] equally hailed and hated for decrying the dark side of the region’s eternal boosterism — has battled cancer for the past five years.” Continue reading Column: Mike Davis Has Terminal Cancer. But His Big Worry is What is Happening to Our World
by Catherine Sturgeon
From: LAPL Blog
DSTL Arts is a nonprofit arts mentorship organization based in Los Angeles that “inspires, teaches, and hires emerging artists from underserved communities.” The acronym in DSTL Arts stands for Develop Skills and Transcend Limits through the Arts. Co-founded by Luis Antonio Pichardo and Jennifer Fuentes in late 2012, DSTL Arts began as Luis’ vision for empowering the next generation of working artists from underserved and underrepresented communities in the arts, serving, at first, only youth whom aspired to become working artists in spite of a lack of a support system in their immediate community, including their families.
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