Calling all artists! The PAiD Artist Council is back and we invite you to apply to join the 2025 cohort. The Artist Council is an eight-member group of artists selected to provide recommendations to help shape the future of Los Angeles County’s public art policy and processes to better support artists. Each artist on the Artist Council will have access to professional development support and be granted an individual project budget to develop a temporary public artwork. Deadline to Apply: May 12, 2025, 11:59pm PST Link to apply: https://lnkd.in/gjKiBQtS The Artist Council is one component of Public Artists in Development (PAiD), a new program by Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture funded by the Mellon Foundation, to promote the career growth and economic empowerment of underrepresented artists in LA County. The program was created to address critical structural barriers to participation in public art as well as expand access to educational resources, training, mentorship, and new project opportunities for artists. Public art consultants, Dyson & Womack were selected to manage the Artist Council, including development of a series of policy discussions and the implementation of the temporary public art commissions. You can learn more about the PAiD program and the first Artist Council cohort artists on our website. Photo: 2024 Artist Council members, Noé Montes @noemontesstudio and Michelle Sui @michelle.sui pictured above. Photo by Isabel Avila @isabelaavila.photo. Graphic identify: @handbuiltstudio PAiD Program design and management: Brianna MacGillivray and Pat Gomez LA County Department of Arts and Culture. #PublicArtistsinDevelopment #PAiD #ArtistCouncil
Founder of Verse Fusionism, new art movement where abstract expressionism, semiotics, and cognitive duality collide. It maps mechanics of thought, turning parallel thinking into raw, symbolic language. @WalterGuzman.art
4dI wanted to share my latest painting, Art is Screaming to Be Freed—a piece that marks the unfolding of Verse Fusionism, the movement I’m developing. Verse Fusionism isn’t just a style; it’s a rebellion. It fuses abstract expressionism, semiotic language, and cognitive duality into a new visual dialect—one that maps the unseen forces shaping creativity. This piece is a rupture, a direct response to the constraints placed on artistic expression. Every symbol, every fracture in this piece is a confrontation: • The Beating Heart — The pulse of raw creativity, alive yet suffocated. • The Broken Crown of Thorns — A fractured inheritance of past movements. • The Broken Ladder — The systemic obstruction of emerging voices. • The Static Spiral — The distortion of artistic truth by noise and gatekeepers. • The Broken Chains & Chained Bird — Art shackled by expectation, commerce, and critique. • The Fractured All-Seeing Eye — Perception cracked by external validation. • The Broken Key & Lightning Bolt — The ignition of a new visual dialect. • The Fractured Face — One side deconstructed cubism, the other raw Neo-expressionism—the duality of cognition and emotion exposed. Art isn’t dead—it’s only screaming to be freed. Walter