VIRGINIA BROERSMA and CORRINA PEIPON took some time out of their busy art and advocacy careers to introduce STUDIO LOAN, a joint project from The Artist's Contract and Contemporary Art League that helps artists in the Los Angeles area to lend and borrow studio spaces. Not only do we hope to raise awareness of this program locally, we hope that folks in other cities will consider bringing the program to your community!

TATIANA VAHAN’s art projects, which include the Los Angeles Artist Census and the bar-fund, function as community-based activism through projects “organized on the principles of direct action, cooperation, and self-determined power by artists.”

VIRGINIA BROERSMA is a fine artist who puts her administrative and organizational skills to work for others. She says, “I want to contribute to shaping the art world/community/market that I want to participate in. This world would offer opportunities to a wider swath of people, would support art and art makers as essential pieces of our society, and would make artists feel valued and less desperate.”

Looking into the near future, performance artist / musician / singer-writer / web series host / actor / comedian / acting coach / aspiring stuntwoman KYM PRIESS wants to see "art in general becoming more interactive and blurring the lines between forms [...] without losing respect for the individual mediums."

For "Avant-Electro-Soul-Singer-Performance Artist" KARINE FLEURIMA, "silence is just as important as good music. Art is a form of meditation and meditation is an act of resistance."

MOLLY SCHULMAN is an artist, a new mom, and co-founder of Maiden LA, a DIY take on an art festival or biennial. As Molly puts it: "It can be intimidating and bewildering to navigate the art world and Maiden LA provides a rare forum where an unrepresented artist working out of their garage is on the same plane as an institution like the Getty."