Agency of Assets (AoA) is an acclaimed fellowship program offering youth development opportunities for High School teens through field trips; Summer employment opportunities in the arts and culture sector; and collaborative art-making for an ICA LA exhibition. AoA Youth Fellows gain critical thinking skills and leadership experience while also receiving inspiration and motivation to explore careers in the creative economy. AoA unfolds over several months in three principal phases.
Since 2016, ICA LA’s Agency of Assets has provided personal and professional growth for teens through a unique museum program. Agency of Assets is organized by Asuka Hisa, Director of Learning & Engagement, with Alberto Keossian, Learning & Engagement Coordinator.
For more information on Agency of Assets, please contact learning@theicala.org.
Exploration: AoA Youth Fellows delve into Los Angeles’s vibrant arts and culture landscape through a range of field trips that explore the city’s history, diverse organizations, and communities.
Employment: Fellows are placed in full-time paid positions with AoA’s Worksite Partners offering invaluable real-world experience over a 10-week period during the Summer.
Engagement: AoA Youth Fellows collaborate with artists and/or organizations to create a final Annex Gallery exhibition to synthesize the knowledge, perspectives, and experiences they’ve acquired through the program.
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Echo X Park Artist Studio is the creative space of artist Peter Shire and home to Echo Park Pottery, a playful postmodern ceramics project that blends high art with everyday function. Originating in the early 1970s, the studio continues to explore the boundary between sculpture and utility through bold, experimental forms and expressive glazes.
EQT is a music label, artist management, and publishing company rooted in developing talent and working with artists, producers, and creatives both culturally important and globally impactful. Some of the current roster includes Masego Smino, Wale, Amindi, Skaiwater, Serpentwithfeet, and Berhana.
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Feminist Center for Creative Work is a Los Angeles-based organization cultivating intersectional feminist praxis through art, publishing, community programs, and resource redistribution. Grounded in transparency and collective values, FCCW aims to model joyful, equitable ways of working and living.
Heidi Duckler Dance uses site-specific contemporary dance to transform non-traditional spaces, offering learning opportunities and involving diverse communities, all while championing the belief that the arts can reshape perspectives of the world and ourselves.
ICA LA is an epicenter of artistic experimentation and incubator of new ideas, committed to upending hierarchies of race, class, gender, and culture through exhibitions, education programs, and community partnerships.
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Self Help Graphics & Art is a community arts center that supports Chicana/o and Latinx artists by fostering innovative printmaking and other visual arts, rooted in community and social justice. Since 1973, they have facilitated local, international collaborations, and global cultural exchanges.
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AoA 2025, special thanks to Iris Fu, Getty Marrow Intern for Learning & Engagement.
