California Institute of the Arts
Professor in the Arts program at California Institute of the Arts and founder of GYST Ink, a nonprofit that provides practical advice to artists
PROFILE
Karen Atkinson
Guest
FROM Karen Atkinson
Which Way, L.A.?
Could the Creative Class Be Priced Out of LA? From Santa Monica to Venice to Highland Park — and now the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles — the painters, sculptors, musicians and dancers who made those and other neighborhoods centers of artistic creativity can’t afford to live or work there anymore.
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