Happy world photography day! 📸 To celebrate we want to share some pictures captured by our founder, Abigail Lopez- Byrd. Today, Abby shared with our youth staff her photography and prints from past shows, and these were just some of our favorites 🌹. Photos taken in Mexico, 2012 #worldphotographyday

Color Compton was established in November 2019 and we were lucky enough to open our office space in August of 2020. From virtual to now in-person events we want to thank all community members for attending and supporting our programming. With that being said, we want to extend the invitation to celebrate our one year anniversary! We will be opening up our doors for a day of art, culture, community and celebration. 🎉 Please join us Saturday, August 28th from 2:00-6:00PM. RSVP using the link in our bio. Volunteer, Open Mic & Guest Artist sign ups also available through our bio. Can’t wait to celebrate with you all! #compton #colorcompton #youth #art #history #community #nonprofit #culture #comptonyouth #comptonart #losangeles

It truly take a team to put great work together! Today we highlight Liliana Vasquez. • Lily is also a part of our Curriculum and Education team and is passionate about bringing quality curriculum to our programming plus is our in-office plant mom! • She joined us at the beginning of Summer and had already added great programming to our space and helped grow our plantitas!🌱 we can’t wait to continue growing with her! • • #colorcompton #color #compton #youthhighlight #youth #staff #nonprofit #history

Back in December 2020 we hired our very FIRST youth staff, Lauren Temple! It’s been an amazing journey and Lauren has been a part of every teams growth! • From brainstorming curriculum, taking lead on programming, managing our social media - to navigating graduate school! Lauren is truly an amazing individual and we can’t wait to see the amazing things she continues to build in and out of @colorcompton ! • Help us celebrate Lauren @lo.temp today! • • #colorcompton #compton #cpt #history #youthart #programming #curriculum #comptonyouth #artincompton

At Color Compton we try to make sure all programming and opportunities are centering youth and are by/for youth. One of the ways we ensure this is by having our youth staff take lead in much of our work! Today we highlight cindy macias! • Cindy joined our Curriculum and Education team at the beginning of Summer and have been an instrumental piece in developing our Summer internship curriculum and adding some creative monthly workshops! • Not only is she an amazing scholar but she also operates her own business @cinditas_tiendita ! Make sure to give her a follow! • Thank you Cindy for being part of the @colorcompton team! • • #colorcompton #color #compton #nonprofit #youth #youthstaff #youthprogramming

From set designing to photography, we couldn’t be prouder of our youth staff! @lo.temp @90triple2 @emilymsan Thank you @kidsofimmigrants for making this opportunity available and always holding a space for the youth! ——-Repost via @kidsofimmigrants Anything Is Possible. To bring the vision to life we worked with students from @colorcompton & @innercityarts who assisted in shooting, styling and set designing the lookbook. This photo in particular was shot by @Emilymsan from Color Compton // We appreciate @vans & @greenhouse for trusting the vision and allowing us to bring these type of opportunities to our communities. We understand how empowering exposure can be and we only wish to encouraged these students to continue their creative path. Our new @vans will launch first exclusively on @greenhouse 8/18 at 12pm PST and on our KOI website 8/20 at 5:55pm. We are here because of yall, we love yall 5ever. Big LOVE to all the publications that are showing love. @hypebeast @solecollector @modernnotoriety @sneakerbardetroit and our family @nootheragency

Join us THIS Wednesday for an earring making workshop led by our Curriculum & Education intern, @cindy_is_as_cindy_does. Swipe right for more information & RSVP using the link in our bio! See you Wednesday! 🥳 If willing and able, we are accepting donations on a sliding scale from $0-$20. All donations go towards our youth programming and are tax deductible. . . . #compton #colorcompton #earringmaking #earrings #art #artsinthehood #youthworkshop #cpt #artworkshop #history

We, at Color Compton, acknowledge our presence on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Kizh & Tongva peoples. They are and continue to be the traditional land caretakers of the Tovaangar lands. (Los Angeles & So. Channel Islands). The area of Compton and Watts lies on the villages of Amupunga & Huunga. We pay our respect and honor to ancestors, elders, and members of these communities past, present, and emerging. Here are some of our favorite indigenous art that’s been shared for #worldsindigenouspeoplesday What have you done to celebrate an indigenous person today?

This August, Color Compton is launching our open studio! Color Compton is committed to opening up the space to the community for their own creative endeavors. 💛 Each open studio will dedicate an hour to a new theme every month. This Saturday, we will be focusing on vision boarding! Artists of all ages are welcome to come by! Our open studios are FREE but donations are always accepted and are tax deductible! 🥳 . . . . #compton #cpt #arts #comptonarts #losangeles #colorcompton #visionboard #collage #artsinthehood #hoodart #studentart #youthincompton

YOOOO... check out our staff highlight of our “Curriculum & Education” team! Over the upcoming weeks we will be sharing more of our amazing staff and team members who make @colorcompton run! • Today we start with these three phenomenal women who are the backbone of all our programming and curriculum! Meet @cindy_is_as_cindy_does , @lo.temp & @_lilaayy_ who make our Curriculum & Education team. Here they share a little of why they wanted to be a part of the @colorcompton , their hobbies and their favorite part of being a part of the team! • Make sure to be on the look out for more of our team highlights and staff individual highlights! • • #colorcompton #colorcpt #compton #comptonyouthstaff #nonprofit #youth #beyourself

Last week our TPOYN students directed, posed, and shot portraits for each other! We loved seeing our youth get creative and have fun! 🤩 . . . . #tpoyn #colorcompton #internship #youthinternship #compton #comptonyouth #history #archive #arts #comptonart #studentart #cpt #losangeles

Our Plants & Peeps workshop yesterday was a success! The Compton community pulled through with the talent! 🤩 Special thanks to our Curriculum & Education team and @eiaculor for facilitating and guiding us through the workshop! 💛 We can’t wait to see the end results! 🪴 . . . . #compton #cpt #colorcompton #plants #clay #clayworkshop #sculpting #claysculpting #potmaking #arts #artsincompton #nonprofit