Shelby Williams-Gonzalez

artworxLA’s 30TH Anniversary Highlights Arts Education for Youth

artworxLA, the L.A.-based arts non-profit that provides long-term, sequential arts programming to students to inspire them to stay in school and evolve and excel in creative pathways, celebrated its 30-year anniversary with a gala fundraiser at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on May 5.

artworxLA 27th Annual Fundraising Gala Celebrates Arts For Good

Organization Dedicated to Combatting the High School Dropout Rate Honored Kristin Sakoda, Executive Director of the LA County Arts Commission & Academy Award-winning Producer Michael Sugar at Annual Fundraising Gala artworxLA, the L.A.-based educational organization dedicated to combatting the high school dropout rate via engagement of alternative high school students with a long-term program focused on arts education in the classroom and mentorship, celebrated their 27th year with its annual “An Evening of Art” fundraising gala at the Taglyan Cultural Center. Founded in 1992 with just one partner school site, artworxLA currently has a weekly presence in 33 alternative education classrooms