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Matt MacFarland: 7 Cartoonists I Love

Posted in @Home, News & Features; Tagged Faculty, Listicles; Posted 5 years ago by Jon Lapointe and Matt MacFarland 4 Minute(s) to read

Armory Teaching Artist Matt MacFarland loves drawing and comics. "I went to school for art, but still made cartoons. Then I went to grad school for art. I still made cartoons...then my son was born and I just made comics."

Armory Arts Challenge #2 - Cartoon Doodles from Memory

Posted in @Home, For Kids; Tagged Downloads, Art Activities, Lesson Plans; Posted 5 years ago by Jon Lapointe and Matt MacFarland Less than a minute to read

In 10 minutes, draw as many popular cartoon characters as possible...from memory! Forget about details. Be quick & loose.

Artful Connections With Math: The Art Store

Posted in @Home, For Kids, On-Demand Video; Tagged Lesson Plans; Posted 5 years ago by Jon Lapointe Less than a minute to read

For 2nd & 3rd Graders: How do artists purchase materials for creating a project? This lesson a goal is for students to work within a given budget, create proposals, purchase materials from a classroom “store,” and create a sculpture on a base.

Kate Lain's Top 5: Cabin Fever Playlist

Posted 5 years ago by Jon Lapointe and Special thanks to Kate Lain and the 5 filmmakers presented here. 4 Minute(s) to read

Armory Teaching Artist Kate Lain's Cabin Fever Playlist is a crowd-sourced list of experimental films that are currently free online. Kate started the list on March 13 for her video art students at the Armory once classes were canceled due to shelter in place recommendations.

Artful Connections With Math: Area Perimeter Blueprint Collage

Posted in For Kids, @Home; Tagged Lesson Plans; Posted 5 years ago by Jon Lapointe Less than a minute to read

For 3rd Graders: How do we use math and art to represent our living spaces? This lesson’s goal is for students to create a floor plan collage, using graph paper to calculate area and sewing with embroidery floss to calculate perimeter.

Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Helps Armory Brings the Power of Art to Youth in Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights

Posted in News & Features; Tagged Partners, Awards; Posted 6 years ago by Jon Lapointe Less than a minute to read

With generous support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Armory partnered with Proyecto Pastoral, Public Works, and the Art for Incarcerated Youth Network to present…

The Brief Statements of Sara Kathryn Arledge

Posted in Exhibitions, News & Features; Posted 6 years ago by Jon Lapointe 3 Minute(s) to read

If she lived during the age of smart phones, what would Sara Kathryn Arledge think of Twitter? It's an intriguing question, because decades before the advent of the tweet, Arledge…

2020 Curators Award and $80,000 Grant

Posted in News & Features; Tagged People, Awards; Posted 7 years ago Less than a minute to read

Fellows of Contemporary Art Bestows 2020 Curators Award and $80,000 Grant to the Curators at Armory Center for the Arts and Pomona College Museum of Art The Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) has awarded…

Meet Our New Board Members

Posted in News & Features; Tagged People; Posted 7 years ago by Jon Lapointe 3 Minute(s) to read

Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to announce three new additions to our board of directors.

Leslie A. Ito Named New Executive Director of Armory Center for the Arts

Posted in News & Features; Tagged People; Posted 7 years ago 6 Minute(s) to read

Following a 6-month national search conducted by the executive search firm of Morris & Berger, Armory Center for the Arts' Board of Directors have announced that Leslie A.