A program of 11:11 Projects · Third House Studios · Van Nuys, Los Angeles
CULTURAMA
Putting community arts
on the map.
Culturama is a group of creatives experimenting with togetherness — meeting the great need for community in these turbulent times through public art, story, and collective imagination.
Public Art · Healing-Centered · Civic Imagination · Los Angeles
what we are
We are artists, educators, and community members who believe that liberation begins with imagination. Culturama is a community-led cultural practice rooted in MacArthur Park and the San Fernando Valley — using murals, story circles, healing workshops, and collaborative builds to help neighborhoods dream and design the future of Los Angeles together.
The work is grounded in Mayan and Toltec ancestral lineage and a simple truth: people cannot imagine new futures while living in survival mode. So we start with care, and we build from there.
“We have inherited a culture of separation. We are building a culture of connection — and we have always been building it.”
Artfull Marlené, Founder
how it works
01
Community Education
Place-based learning through art on housing, food, climate, and spatial justice
02
Healing Workshops
Low-pressure sessions using movement, art, and ancestral practice to restore imagination
03
Story Circles
Guided rituals where lived experience becomes community knowledge and civic evidence
04
Collaborative Builds
Murals, altars, and installations made together — reclaiming public space and making the movement visible
PUBLIC ART AS CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Culturama treats public art not as decoration but as infrastructure for a future city — pieces that serve communities the way parks, transit, and libraries do. Each work is a wish, a prototype, a proof that the city we need is already being built.
projects
Black Student Achievement Program
HILLCREST ELEMENTARY
The origin. Spring 2025.
A four-session residency with K–2 students at Hillcrest Elementary in Los Angeles — four classrooms including special needs and behavioral support. Students used mosaic art templates to explore culture, belonging, and what a caring neighborhood looks like.
The program generated the Age-Group Framework that now guides all Culturama activations.
Each Culturama project is a social art experiment in togetherness. We are building a vision of the San Fernando Valley from the ground up — from the stories, murals, soundscapes, and imagination of the people who actually live here — toward a civic debut at the 2028 LA Olympics.
UPCOMING
Culturama at the Metro G-Line
July 18, 2026 · Metro G-Line Station, Reseda, CA · Free · All ages · Public
A public art activation bringing Culturama’s community imagination work out into the open. Come experience story, art, and collective visioning right on the map.