Karen Atkinson

California Institute of the Arts

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Professor in the Arts program at California Institute of the Arts and founder of GYST Ink, a nonprofit that provides practical advice to artists 

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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…

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