Tasha Hunter wears many hats in Long Beach. She is the Executive Director of the Uptown Business Improvement District and founder of Wiggins Hunter Consulting Group, President of the Arts Council for Long Beach, and community engagement consultant on an exciting new project developing an African-American Cultural Center in Long Beach. Wait, there’s more. Tasha…
Arts Council for Long Beach (ACLB) has a powerful mission: “foster creativity and culture, enliven communities and enable a thriving creative economy.” Their vision is equally powerful and ambitious: “…to help create a vibrant arts scene that makes Long Beach a premiere destination for residents, businesses, students and visitors.” Since my days on the Board…
Griselda Suarez is very succinct in her self-description. She is “a writer, artist, cook, and a teacher.” According to Griselda, she was born in unincorporated East Los Angeles and “…walked Whittier Blvd and Brooklyn Ave in black and white saddle shoes.” In the podcast, “Voices in Our Heads”, Griselda Suarez talks about growing up in…
PalacioMagazine.com continues its conversation with Griselda Suarez, the new Executive Director of the Arts Council for Long Beach. We ended the last conversation addressing the Arts Registry at the Council. In this conversation, we speak about opening up our vision to include all of Long Beach and not just a few sections of the city….
We first met Griselda Suarez at an event at The Playhouse a few years back. She and her partner were catering it with their food business. The food was spicy and delicious. I saw that dedication and commitment to quality again last year during the partnership between Palacio Magazine, Leadership Long Beach and IdeaFest. Ms….
Call it Street Art, Urban Art or even Graffiti Art. Whatever you call it, there’s something BIG, COLORFUL, STRIKING that is filling the exterior walls of buildings around Long Beach. And the interior walls of the Long Beach Museum of Art. The Pow and Wow has arrived again in Pow! Wow! Long Beach 2016. The…
PalacioMagazine.com finishes its conversation with Arts Council for Long Beach Executive Director Griselda Suarez. In this last part, Suarez discusses issues including Arts Education, Advocacy, Community Engagement and how her tenure at the Arts Council will be different than the last five or six Executive Directors in ten years. Want to find out more about Arts Education…