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Inner-City Arts serves over 10,000 at-risk youth from Los Angeles public schools each year, providing a range of arts facilities and servies, and an oasis in an otherwise challenging urban environment. Phase I, completed in 1995 in collaboration with Marmol-Radziner Associates, includes 12,000 sf of studio and support space surrounding the school’s center outdoor courtyard. This Gathering Space is both a retreat from the street beyond as well as a functional working space for the facility, surrounded by a series of flexible adjacent studios. The Ceramics Center, with its tall, sculptural tower lit from within, is an important icon for the Center and a beacon within the surrounding neighborhood.

To serve the rapidly growing community, as well as to make Inner-City Art’s facilities available to teenagers, parents and their children, Phase II was completed in 2005, nearly tripling the total size of the campus. Phase II extends the courtyard as the central focus of the campus and introduces a 99 seat block box theater and drama studio along the campus exterior to buffer the Center from the street.

At the same time, Phase II creates an extended set of formal and programmatic relationships to the surrounding neighborhood, reflecting the school’s role as a growing, recognizable, and positive presence within the community. Phase II not only allows the school to continue its rapid growth in serving Los Angeles’ inner-city youth, but also enables Inner-City Arts to provide a larger range of services to teenagers and adults as well, further integrating the facility into the city it serves as both solace and support.

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