It's been a whirlwind year at Level Ground! 2023 has seen us weather changes and challenges, exciting new partnerships, and emerging avenues for connection, care and visibility. And we couldn't have done it without the support and unending brilliance of our incredible community.
Read MoreLevel Ground Collective Artist Chance Calloway is a limitless talent—as a screenwriter, author, director and musician, his artistry and the influences that have shaped it are staggering.
Read MoreOn August 26 our amazing community gathered for brunch (at Superba in Hollywood for the foodies out there!) and everyone brought a few books for a show and tell.
Read MoreStaff Artists Rebekah Mei and Leslie Foster are headed back to school, this time as educators. They’ve both been part of Level Ground from the very beginning (in 2013) and were our first volunteers to transition to part-time staff 5 years ago. In the last year, they’ve both started full-time jobs in education and are leaving the Level Ground staff team – but not our community!
Read MorePainter, musician, curator and all-around creative Langston Alimayu is chiefly concerned with honesty—in creativity, in community building, and within the art world as a whole. A self-taught native of Los Angeles, Langston pours that very energy of jovial, whimsical originality into every piece of work they bring to life.
Read MoreLevel Ground staff artist Rebekah Mei—a mother, sister, daughter, activist and familial archivist—is in an active state of creative unification. Unification, that is, in the linkages between lineage and domestic life, matriarchy and art, and feminine labor and motherhood.
Read MorePOLARITY Curator, Bri Stokes, reflects on the inspiration and drive behind the biggest Level Ground group show to date.
Read MoreHello! My name is Liliana, Lily for short. I use she/they pronouns and I’m one of the Collective Organizers here at Level Ground.
Read MoreSix artists from The Level Ground Collective will be exhibiting original art at the upcoming iteration of High Beams #4, this Saturday in the parking lot of the Torrance Art Museum.
Read MoreA recipe for holding onto your joy when the world tries to steal it.
Read MoreVeil of Skin: Unspoken Vocabularies
Read MoreA possibly indulgent reflection on self-directed education and my bleeding body.
Read MoreIn 2021, Community Manager Reneice Charles sees Level Ground shaping a just world for artists.
Read MoreMeet 10 of the Blooming in the Whirlwind artists.
Read MoreMeet 9 of the Blooming in the Whirlwind artists.
Read More19 poets and filmmakers set to collaboratively create nine original short films for Level Ground's "Blooming in the Whirlwind.”
Read MoreMeet the eight artists performing in this Saturday's ART@6FT show.
Read MoreTake a Trip to Torrance for Level Ground at High Beams 04
Read MoreLevel Ground seeks poets and filmmakers for a new Collect project called "Blooming in the Whirlwind.”
Read MoreThough we don't know what the future holds, we're continuing our core work of building collaboration, fostering conversation, and sharing resources.
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