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Here to help art lovers energize their spaces with joy, color, and originality. Discover prints, apparel, and home goods at michaelvargas.art ✌️🏼❤️🇵🇷

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Join me in wishing our beloved Michael aka @everydayhigher / @michaelvargas.art a happy birthday and a new year full of blessings! He has been busy creating & designing @ilovequickdraw.app (give it a birthday follow) which we are so excited about. He’s been editing beautiful art history docs for the Getty, cooking delicious vegan meals, and helping me with our veggie garden which somehow survived the crazy heat wave. Thank you for being a great Papa & friend ✨🌺✨We are immensely proud of who are and who you’re becoming. Growth & expansion happens at every age! Abrazotes TQM 🥰

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Smiling is Cheesing - made in @ilovequickdraw.app

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✂️*Get your tickets today* ✂️ Cut Shape Collaborate | An Intergenerational Collage Workshop

Join me at Lucky Cat Gallery in Downtown LA on September 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM for a super fun collage workshop! Whether you choose to collaborate with a partner or fly solo, the creative freedom is all yours.

Using a vibrant assortment of colored paper, scissors, and glue, you can create funky abstract portraits or anything your imagination dreams up. This simplified art-making process invites you to play, experiment, and surprise yourself.

All skill levels are welcome, and no experience is necessary. Everything you need is provided, and best of all, you’ll leave with your artwork beautifully framed by our crew.
Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot today and get ready to unleash your creativity!

Ages 12 & Up
$30 per person
*Paper, supplies, and art frames provided*

LINK IN BIO

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That’s what my upcoming workshop looks like in motion. A blank sheet of paper. A pair of scissors. Twenty minutes later, a face is staring back at you.

Join me at Lucky Cat Gallery in Downtown LA on September 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM. Bring a partner or come solo, either way you’re building something from nothing but colored paper, scissors, and glue.

There’s no sketching first, no “getting it right.” You cut a shape and let the piece tell you what it needs next. That’s the whole process, and it’s exactly as fun as it looks in the video above.

All skill levels welcome. No experience necessary. Everything’s provided, and you’ll leave with your piece framed by our crew.

Spaces are limited. Reserve your spot.

Ages 12 & Up
$30 per person
Paper, supplies, and art frames provided

LINK IN BIO

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Cut Shape Collaborate | An Intergenerational Collage Workshop

Join me at Lucky Cat Gallery in Downtown LA on September 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM for a super fun collage workshop! Whether you choose to collaborate with a partner or fly solo, the creative freedom is all yours.

Using a vibrant assortment of colored paper, scissors, and glue, you can create funky abstract portraits or anything your imagination dreams up. This simplified art-making process invites you to play, experiment, and surprise yourself.

All skill levels are welcome, and no experience is necessary. Everything you need is provided, and best of all, you’ll leave with your artwork beautifully framed by our crew.
Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot today and get ready to unleash your creativity!

Ages 12 & Up
$30 per person
*Paper, supplies, and art frames provided*

LINK IN BIO

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Cut Shape Collaborate | An Intergenerational Collage Workshop

Join me at Lucky Cat Gallery in Downtown LA on September 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM for a super fun collage workshop! Whether you choose to collaborate with a partner or fly solo, the creative freedom is all yours.

Using a vibrant assortment of colored paper, scissors, and glue, you can create funky abstract portraits or anything your imagination dreams up. This simplified art-making process invites you to play, experiment, and surprise yourself.

All skill levels are welcome, and no experience is necessary. Everything you need is provided, and best of all, you’ll leave with your artwork beautifully framed by our crew.
Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot today and get ready to unleash your creativity!

Ages 12 & Up
$30 per person
*Paper, supplies, and art frames provided*

LINK IN BIO

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It's back! One Person, One Vote? is streaming free on the PBS App and PBS YouTube channel through July 30. Link in Bio.

This photo is where that journey began. This is what I looked like when I immigrated to the United States at eight months old.

Growing up, I was never perceived as American. “Where are you from?” people would ask. I’d say the Philippines, and even though it was once a U.S. colony, most had never heard of it. That is, until Imelda Marcos and her 3,000 shoes. Overnight, my country became something Americans recognized, for all the wrong reasons.

For a long time, America never felt like something I could claim as my own. But in first grade, at the library of my Catholic school in Jersey City, I chose a book about Frederick Douglass for my very first book report. As I grew up, I learned about the people who spent generations pushing this country closer to its ideals. I didn’t realize it then, but America was inviting me into its story.

Who would’ve thought this little Filipina baby would grow up to make a film about the strange way Americans elect their president, something so undeniably and inextricably American? I would’ve been the last one to guess, especially when I was rockin’ out pluckin’ a bass for a living. Somewhere along the way, I realized that being American isn’t defined only by ancestry or where we were born. It’s also defined by our willingness to participate in the unfinished work of building a more perfect union.

For me, it came as simply as waking up one morning with an electric calling, even though everything that ensued would be far from simple. I’d never made a film before. Making this one took every skill I had and demanded I learn a dozen more.
There were nights I asked myself if I was being a responsible mother. But I also knew I was teaching my daughter and son something I couldn’t teach them any other way: that you don’t abandon a thing you believe in just because it’s hard.

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Spent some of the best years of my career as Creative Director / Designer and staff photographer (in the mix of action photographer 🤣🤣🤣) for The Mixshow Power Summit w Rene Mclean and Lylette Pizarro. This 4 day event every Fall was quite literally the most fun I think anyone has had at a music industry only summit! Days / Nights were spent at one hotel w Hip Hops biggest stars, having access to the best new music and seeing some incredible performances. The Journal (pictured in these slides) was our magazine that we gave out at the event that showcased the schedule / events for the conference. I can’t begin to tell you the stories / memories that were created during these trips to Miami, Puerto Rico, Domican Republic and The Bahamas. Someone please convince Rene & Lylette to produce a documentary! Peace and love to all that worked on this event or attended. Game changing event that we will never forget! #mixshowpowersummit #rpm #emixshowmagazine #renemclean #lylettepizarro 😍💪🏼🌴

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If you know… you know.. if you were there… you cared… if you danced… you danced until you couldn’t anymore… Shout out to the ravers!!! #LiquidSky #Nasa #StormRave #DigitalKonfusion #TheShelter

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Join us this Saturday, April 4th for our next @wordsonwax.club to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with the music of jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles and Dwight Trible, who have helped establish Leimert Park as a cultural epicenter for Black musical innovation in Los Angeles. We will be joined in conversation by Dwight Trible, director of @TheWorldStage and we’ll listen deeply to select songs from seven original vinyl pressings by the three artists.

Books on Leimert Park and renown local artists will provide insight into the historical & cultural context that defines our vibrant community.

Your host DJ / filmmaker @monimuiscally will share book excerpts and quotes as well as archival photos and video with her partner, filmmaker / artist @everydayhigher in a multimedia presentation.

✨ Saturday, April 4 • 7pm - 9pm
✨ Lore: @loreleimertpark
✨ Ticket link in bio $20

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“Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
Breeze driftin’ on by, you know how I feel
It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life for me, yeah
And I’m feeling GOOD 🙌🏾”
- 👑 nina simone

as I am still wrapping my head around what transpired on Crenshaw Boulevard last weekend, reaching for words that do not adequately convey the feeling, my ♥️ tells the story. the story is LOVE. pure love. thassssit! and that’s all we need 🦋

forever grateful for such a powerful, memorable, full circle moment in the community that raised me. for an opportunity to serve on a team that is rooted in art and community. there’s no coincidence this moment happened as I boarded my next flight ✈️ around the Sun 🌞. God did that! My family and friends were there for the journey - as always (more love 🤟🏾)

thanx 2 everyone who showed up, poured into the day 2 make it happen, poured into me with your support, and poured into the movement of SOULNIC with your presence and your 💵! as u can see from this reel, your investment is invaluable 🙌🏾. let’s keep growing, glowing, and grooving 💃🏾🕺🏾

✨ visit the 🔗 @soulnicla 4 deets & donations

✨deep 🫶🏾 to our block party venue sponsor @earlesoncrenshaw

✨ 2 @chevez_is_like for inviting me aboard. let’s keep building 🧱

✨ thx 4 all the yummy footage 🎞️ @earlesoncrenshaw @the.hoodfairy @only1londie @samzieslovechronicles @albiusnegroni

and yes… I saged the block 👸🏾🍃💨

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We’re celebrating Women’s History Month this Thursday & this is some of my vinyl selections for the night! Get ready to sing & dance joyfully! Hosted by the loveliest @afrikanbuttafly. Join us! 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

SIPS + SPINS vol. ✌🏾 Vinyl Listening Lounge will celebrate our favorite Queens of Soul, Rock, Jazz, Funk, World, and more as we honor Women’s History Month!

Selector DJ Moni will, literally, take us on a sonic spin featuring our favorite ladies of sound, and a few rare gems 💎 too! Sip 🍷, enjoy delectable bites 🧀, and share good vibes! 👑

🗓️ Thursday, March 26th
⏰ 5pm • 8pm
📍 @districtwine in Long Beach
🎧 vibes by DJ @monimusically
🚘 ample and convenient street parking

Bring a friend… or three! We can’t wait to see U!

✨ a patrice elizabeth + district wine collaboration

#sipsandspins
#downtownlongbeach
#winenight

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