Artist in
Residence
Some examples have included visual artists who use different mediums (e.g. mosaic, shadow puppets, painting), urban architects who have helped students advocate for issues in the community, dancers, theater artists, and more. As part of the selection process, artists are asked to describe how they might engage the children during their residency.
This process allows us to continually offer our children dynamic and varied experiences with practicing artists. The children gain from these experiences, the ability to observe, first-hand, the messy, non-linear process of creativity. This metacognitive activity helps students to reinforce and understand their own creative thinking processes.
Carolina Hoyos is a stage and film actor, director, voice artist, and musician. She began as a childhood concert pianist before spending 3 seasons on “MTV Hits”. She plays captive songstress Antonella in Nicolas Winding Refn’s highly anticipated Amazon series “Too Old To Die Young”, firecracker Anise Silverlight in Austin Film Festival Winner “Blackwater” and Vice Presidential hopeful Celeste Seedlingsun in the film “Lee’d The Way”. She’s narrated for Harper Collins, made fun cameos in “Under the Silver Lake”, “Gene Simmons: Family Jewels”, Pharrell Williams’s video of the Oscar-Nominated song “Happy” and has shared the stage with Eddie Van Halen, Ryan Adams, and members of Guns N’ Roses. Carolina was named a Fellow in La Skins Fest Native American TV Writers Lab, earned a coveted spot on the LA County Artist Roster, is a West Hollywood Directing Artist Grantee and is in development with It’s Personal on her debut solo show performance with a support grant from The Peace Studio. She is a Fall 2021 Member of Shakespeare Acting Company Black Girls Luv The Bard and performs regularly with comedy troupes Dad Jeans, Nightpantz and Theater Artist Ensemble Native Voices at The Autry.
Building upon a 30 year history as stage performer and rock singer, Karim Shuquem creates installations, sculptures, and prints that have relationship with staging, temporality, and process. Karim is a teaching artist with his own program, Graphic Non-Violence LLC, that describes itself as socially-engaged art education. GNV has a neuro-diverse student body and connects students with art projects that support non-profits and other causes.
Dakota Noot is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator. He draws animal-human hybrids in cutout paper worlds. Originally from Bismarck, North Dakota, he continues to show in both North Dakota and Los Angeles, including solo and two-person shows at Art Produce, Coaxial, and Highways Performance Space. Noot has exhibited in group shows at Charlie James Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, and Torrance Art Museum. His work has been featured in Hi-Fructose Magazine.
