The program, open to grades 3 through 12, includes off-site activities and field trips to the museum. The Broad is paying for students\u2019 transport to the museum.<\/p>\n
The inaugural project will focus on South Los Angeles<\/a> students and spotlight L.A. artist Lauren Halsey<\/a>. Students will visit Halsey\u2019s South L.A. sculpture garden, \u201csister dreamer, lauren halsey\u2019s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles,\u201d<\/a> to explore themes of neighborhood, memory and belonging. Halsey\u2019s work, which debuted in March, was presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division<\/a> and curated by LAND co-founder Christine Y. Kim.<\/p>\n Students will then, on the same day, travel to the Broad for guided tours, discussions and writing prompts. They\u2019ll be encouraged to connect their personal experiences to works in the museum\u2019s collection while also considering how they might creatively express their own life stories, from their individual communities, through art. April De Leon, Broad interim school program manager, is overseeing the program. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so we can bring hundreds of young people [to the museum] so they can be inspired to be creative \u2014 and in a way that helps their community, gives back to their community, transforms their community and their city,\u201d said Ed Patuto, Broad director for audience engagement. \u201cWe\u2019ll look at how other artists, too \u2014 like Mark Bradford<\/a>, John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres<\/a> \u2014 deal with their neighborhoods and opportunities in their neighborhoods for inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n The museum will provide educators with on-site worksheets and background materials on the artists, along with other pre-visit and post-visit resources in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n Field trips to the museum begin Sept. 18, though the Broad is still enrolling schools in the program. It\u2019s giving priority to schools and youth organizations in and around South L.A. The Halsey program runs through Dec. 11.<\/p>\n Lauren Halsey\u2019s South L.A. sculpture garden, \u201csister dreamer.\u201d<\/p>\n (Allen Chen @_h_studio)<\/p>\n Patuto said that Halsey was the perfect artist to launch the program. Not only is her work represented in the Broad\u2019s collection, but \u201cshe\u2019s an artist who\u2019s influenced by her community and, like a Mark Bradford, is actually building something in her community, for her community,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that needs to be supported by arts institutions around the city.\u201d<\/p>\n The idea behind the sculpture park, when Halsey first conceived it about 16 years ago, she said in an interview, was a space that represents and pays homage to the neighborhood, both aesthetically and conceptually. <\/p>\n \u201cThe heroes, the poetics, the material culture, the everyday,\u201d she said. \u201cBut also, that it\u2019s a sculpture park that serves \u2014 and for free \u2014 the neighborhood and L.A. at large.\u201d <\/p>\n The Broad says it will continue to develop \u201clearning modules\u201d over the next several years.<\/p>\n![\"Lauren](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788078032_505_.jpeg\")
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