In partnership with LA County Parks and Recreation, Clockshop collaborated with artist April Banks and Kounkey Design Initiative (KDI) to create The Light of Many Suns, a permanent public art installation at Jackie Robinson Park in Sun Village, Antelope Valley—the first park in America named after Jackie Robinson. Sun Village, a historically significant Black community, was established by families who overcame discriminatory housing and lending practices to build schools, churches, infrastructure, and the beloved park. LeBasse Projects supported LA County by consulting on this impactful public art project that honors the resilience and rich history of communities like Sun Village.

In 2019, LeBasse Projects was enlisted as the Arts Consultant of Record for the City of La Quinta. LBP drafted the city’s first new art guidelines, and currently manages the annual arts budgets, oversees artist RFQ and selection processes, and provides curatorial support for temporary and permanent additions to La Quinta’s public art collection.

This new stage for the La Quinta Public Art Program aims to bring high-quality, engaging art to the community. The strategies in development will create opportunities to commission and display meaningful art that is culturally relevant, supports local artists, and provides predominantly free programming for the entire community, from local six-year-olds to visiting museum curators.

*Images are of work by artists currently under consideration.

LeBasse Projects is supporting the City of Santa Clarita with the development of its arts and cultural programs.

We work closely with the Commission for Arts and Culture on a number of initiatives, including institutional writing and curatorial services.

LeBasse Projects supports the City of San Diego as the Public Art Service Provider of record.

We work closely with the Commission for Arts and Culture on a number of initiatives, including an expanded digital presentation of the Civic Art Collection, drafting public art guidelines, and establishing a new mural application process.

LeBasse Projects is supporting the City of Oxnard with the development of its public arts programs.

LBP drafted an RFP and managed the artist call and selection process for a centrally-located mural project at City Hall, in downtown Oxnard. Artists have been selected, designs are approved, and the project will soon be headed into the installation phase.

Hudson Pacific Properties allocated the Art Development Fee for One Westside towards an arts emergency grant for artists impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative directly supported the community of artists in Los Angeles by providing unrestricted aid, allowing artists to recoup lost funds from cancelled programs or to support ongoing creative endeavors. The grant focused on supporting artists that are traditionally underrepresented, including artists of color, disabled artists, female artists, and artists part of the LGBTQ+ community. Grant recipients were also chosen based on their work that sought to enrich and inform the public on important subjects such as social justice, civil rights, the physical environment, and other contemporary issues.

LeBasse Projects partnered with artist-in-residence Audrey Chan in creating a mural that spans the façade of the Los Angeles offices of the ACLU of Southern California.

"The Care We Create" is a testament to the power of coming together to fight for community healing and social justice. It highlights past and present Southern Californians who have stood and continue to make a stand for change.

Audrey Chan :: The Care We Create
2020

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture commissioned LeBasse Projects to work with an artist to install a series of murals in the outdoor courtyards of the Edelman's Courthouse. The Courthouse is used specifically by Family and Social Services and ends up being a destination for young children to teens.

LBP brought artist Andrew Hem on to help create a warmer and more engaging atmosphere in order to hopefully add a bit more color and life for the children passing through the courthouse.

With upwards of 100,000 annual trips, West Hollywood’s free Cityline transit service provides local access and linkage to the main thoroughfares for transfer to the larger Metro system.

In addition to stopping at the City’s five low-income senior buildings, CityLine serves such major destinations as the parks, senior center, library, post office, grocery stores, and Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Available to the general public, CityLine has always been most popular with seniors and those with disabilities, because the smaller buses are easily accessible and travel deeper into local neighborhoods, as compared to the larger transit system.

In partnership with the City of West Hollywood, LeBasse Projects facilitated public arts programming via the Cityline shuttles. Mural artists, including Kristin Farr, Ellierex, Casey Gray, Angie Wong, and Jim Houser created dynamic designs for West Hollywood residents and visitors. Launching in 2018, these decorated shuttles continue to service West Hollywood.

LeBasse Projects and artist jen e partnered with the LA County Arts Commission to create Kaleidoscope Sky, a mural installation at Hacienda Height’s Los Robles Park. The mural is positioned on the ceiling of the main archway of the park office at Los Robles Park, emphasizing its most significant architectural feature.

Inspired by her love for stained glass, she hoped that when viewers look up at the ceiling, it would also translate as a window to the sky. Born Jennifer Kuroki, jen e is a Los Angeles-based artist and has been making art for over 20 years in L.A. and Japan. A central focus of her work is how it plays with environment and interacts with the viewer.

Kaleidoscope Sky :: 2018
Location :: Los Robles Park
14906 Los Robles Ave, Hacienda Heights, CA 91745

LeBasse Projects, in partnership with Downtown Santa Monica Inc. and the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs office, launched ROAM, a series of temporary art installations spanning the Third Street Promenade from Triangle Square to Wilshire Boulevard.

Designed by UrbanRock Design, Site Lines was a series of physical drawings are overlaid onto elements seen on the Promenade — dinosaur topiaries, building fragments, and storefront displays. Gestural drawings were created and made into physical plates then layered onto the subject. When viewers positioned themselves in the sight line, the drawing and subject matter came into alignment and focus.

Physical plates were attached to pedestrian street light poles at various locations along the 3-block stretch of the promenade. Subjects were color-coded—dinosaur drawings are orange, building drawings are magenta, and storefront drawings are blue. Corresponding color-coded vinyl footprints were laid onto the sidewalk, directing viewers to the viewpoint.

This project provided a playful and provocative celebration of the promenade. Objects of beauty in our everyday environment are often taken for granted. This project called attention to overlooked and ubiquitous facets of this urban landscape.

Location :: The 3rd Street Promenade
1351 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401

LeBasse Projects, in partnership with Downtown Santa Monica Inc. and the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs office, launched ROAM, a series of temporary art installations spanning the Third Street Promenade from Triangle Square to Wilshire Boulevard.

Designed by Andrew Schoultz, Tipping Point was a colorful and engaging installation comprised of large painted columns, reminiscent of cascading dominoes. Each “domino” had its own color gradient that transitions within each section as well as the overall installation.

Built to withstand months of public interaction, viewers were invited to connect with the work by touching, leaning on, gathering around, and crawling underneath the piece.

Tipping Point
May — August, 2018

Location :: Santa Monica
120 Colorado Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401

LeBasse Projects, in partnership with Downtown Santa Monica Inc. and the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs office, launched ROAM, a series of temporary art installations spanning the Third Street Promenade from Triangle Square to Wilshire Boulevard.

Designed by Jen Stark, Tunnel Vision was a sequence of cascading ring shapes that morphed in shape and color. The front of the sculpture began as an organic inner shape, which transitioned into a circle in the back. From one perspective, the sculpture was colored in a vivid rainbow gradient; the opposite end’s color scheme changed into black and white, creating an optical illusion and two unique perspectives of the piece.

In this revealed element of surprise, viewers were encouraged to interact with the sculpture, while also providing an oasis for neighbors and visitors to sit, relax, and contemplate.

LeBasse Projects was commissioned to serve as consultant and project manager for ROAM, a series of temporary art installations across Downtown Santa Monica (DTSM), including the annual holiday decorations.

The team at LBP drafted and launched the artist RFP process, made artist recommendations, and facilitated installation. DTSM partnered with LBP to commission the Australian duo DabsMyla to design and fabricate three street blocks of contemporary, interactive holiday-themed installations on the Third Street Promenade.

With an extremely tight timeline, all installations required artistic and engineering approval, as they would be positioned in the public’s right-of-way. We coordinated with the artists, multiple fabrication resources, the City of Santa Monica, and local businesses to address a myriad of concerns in order to efficiently and effectively deliver one of Santa Monica’s most successful holiday programs.

Through these installations, the Promenade was activated as a family-centric venue for holiday workshops and events and attracted visitors to photograph and share their experiences to the public-at-large.

This resulted in local TV, radio, and print coverage, more than 900K monthly social media impressions, an increase year-to-year of more than 10%, and was widely celebrated by the City of Santa Monica, its mayor, and local businesses.

November 28 - January 7, 2017

LeBasse Projects, in partnership with Downtown Santa Monica Inc. and the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs office, launched ROAM, a series of temporary art installations spanning the Third Street Promenade from Triangle Square to Wilshire Boulevard.

Designed by Eric Reiger, a.k.a. HOT TEA, the colorful and immersive artwork was comprised of a series of suspended, fluttering yarn installations, each differing in color gradient and size.

The work was showcased at Triangle Square and all three blocks of the Third Street Promenade, where viewers walked along the outdoor space to see Reiger's installations highlight the aerial space of each block.

Bonnie “Bunnie” Reiss’ mural, Big Wishes & Magic Birds, was painted on the main wall of the community building in Carolyn Rosas Park, creating an engaging visual landmark at the park’s entrance. The folk-based mural makes use of vibrant colors, patterning and stylized flowers, with nesting birds as the focal element. 

In her work, Reiss pulls from divergent sources such as community, cultures, experiences to map out unusual lives, find hidden and forgotten places, build a unique visual history, and weave it all together as one.

Location :: Carolyn Rosas Park
18500 E Farjardo St
Rowland Heights, CA 91748

LeBasse Projects and artist Nate Frizzell partnered with the LA County Arts Commission to create a mural installation at Whittier’s Adventure Park. Working with the local community, Frizzell installed a series of small-scale murals to enhance the park and create a point of civic engagement and local pride.

Frizzell painted a series of children from the local neighborhood and even enlisted the aid of the local park community – including seniors, toddlers, after school programs, and special needs students. The end result is a perfect example of cultural placemaking and true public art engagement.

Location :: Adventure Park
10130 Gunn Ave, Whittier, CA 90605

LeBasse Projects was instrumental in launching the inaugural Sacramento Mural Festival (SMF), now known as Wide Open Walls. A week-long event during the summer of 2016, SMF featured local, national, and international artists painting 11 murals to activate areas from Downtown to Midtown Sacramento. SMF was presented by Friends of the Arts Commission, a nonprofit organization established in 1977 to support the work of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission (SMAC).

With nearly 3,000 attendees, the festival included artist meet-and-greets, activations by local businesses, a mural painting workshop with local students, and culminated with a SMAC ArtJam gala. All proceeds from the festival and gala benefited arts education. In 2016, four local emerging artists were selected to participate. Since the festival’s founding, ten local artists have participated every year.

With a focus on underserved neighborhoods and Sacramento’s mural painting history, LBP’s strategic goals were to introduce the importance of public art, cultivate relationships with local businesses to gain community support, and curate a diverse roster of renowned muralists to evolve Sacramento’s identity as an international art destination.

As a result, the festival garnered community praise and press across print, television, and social media, generated pride and participation by local residents, and served as a bellwether of inclusion, all while creating economic growth and greater cultural understanding amongst diverse groups. Since the festival’s launch, more than 80 permanent works and 250 temporary works have been integrated into the community landscape.

Participating artists included: Add Fuel, Alicia Palenyy, Andrew Schoultz, David Fiveash, Dog and Pony, Drew Merritt, Irubiel Moreno, Jake Castro, Kristin Farr, Michelle Blade, Nate Frizzell

Sacramento Mural Festival
August 20 – 27, 2016

For the second year in a row, the Bonifacio Arts Foundation (BAFI) teamed up with LeBasse projects for the ArtBGC ONE Mural Festival in Bonifacio Global City (BGC), Manila, to host the weeklong event, featuring a mix of international and local Filipino artists painting across the district.

Developed by LeBasse Projects with the support of BAFI, ArtBGC ONE was much more than a set of murals adorning Manila’s urban landscape; the event created an educational platform to enhance the arts and culture awareness of the community. With ArtBGC ONE 2016, LeBasse Projects showcased the inclusive nature of public art by creating murals and installations to be enjoyed by the entire city of Manila, as well as an international audience.

With a unique set of architectural elements, including massive firewalls on nearly every building, BGC contains one of the largest collections of massive flat walls in the world. Once part of the main Philippine Army Camp, BGC has become the newest Financial District of Metro Manila. With its singular design, this robust cosmopolitan neighborhood makes it an ideal opportunity for murals and public art. By adding curated public art, LBP facilitated Bonifacio Global City’s transformation into a destination for the arts as a public mural museum.

The new murals have been added to those from ArtBGC ONE 2015 artists: FAILE, CYRCLE, Kristin Farr, akaCorleone, Nate Frizzell, Drew Merritt, Egg Fiasco, Anjo Bolarda

2016 International artists :: Andrew Schoultz, Bunnie Reiss, Dog and Pony, HOT TEA, Pastel FD
2016 Local artists :: Archie Oclos, KFK Collective, Kris Abrigo, Trip63
2016 Filmmakers :: Lostman’s Collective
2016 Photographers :: Shutterpanda

Location :: Bonifacio Global City, Manila PH

In 2015, LeBasse Projects launched an international arts festival for the Bonifacio Art Foundation (BAFI), creating an annual signature event in the Bonifacio District of Metro Manila. The ArtBGC ONE Festival generated immediate positive social impact for the local community, while laying a robust foundation for future arts programming by the BAFI.

Working with the foundation, LBP drafted goals and plans for the festival, curated the murals and events program, brought key local brand partners to sponsor the campaign, and managed an army of volunteers to make the festival’s three years a huge success. As a result of the media and social activation generated by its inaugural year, LBP was able to bring major Philippine brands to sponsor and underwrite the event including Philippine Airlines, Globe Telecom Philippines, and Fully Booked, a nationwide bookstore chain with 25 branches. These partnerships provided an opportunity to expand arts programming across Bonifacio Global City and elevate community participation.

Due to the scope of the mural walls, LBP selected more than 10 local emerging artists to assist international established artists for the festival’s first year. Those emerging artists then led projects the following year, creating an organic mentorship program which continued for subsequent years. Anchored by the festival’s murals, LBP and BAFI created additional programming to integrate art into the community and invite local participation. More than two dozen local businesses participated in the festival, including restaurants, local arts organizations, and The Mind Museum.

2015 International artists :: AkaCORLEONE, CYRCLE, FAILE, Kristin Farr, Nate Frizzell, Drew Merritt
2015 Filipino artists :: Anjo Bolarda, Egg Fiasco
2015 Filmmakers :: Aleks Kocev, Blaine Suque

Location :: Bonifacio Global City, Manila PH
May 22 - 31, 2015

LA-based artist collective Dog & Pony Studio was tasked with creating an artwork to hand in the pro shop at Marshall Canyon Golf Course. Inspired by the layout of the golf course itself, Dog & Pony designed a painting that uses each hole as an active element throughout the work. In working with the color palette of Marshall Canyon Golf Course and incorporating “MCGC”, the painting represents its location vibrantly and welcomes each visitor to the golf course and pro shop.