GAY DAY PHOTO MURALS

Researched potential artwork commissions for 3 new stores within the Tender Greens Restaurant Group. For the West Hollywood store, oversaw artist selection, image selection, custom site-specific photo mural production and installation of murals composed from Hank O’Neal’s Gay Day photo series.   

‘1988’ public art performances

For the city of Culver City, as part of their centennial year celebration, produced ‘1988,' a four-part site-specific series highlighting the Art in Public Places Program, Ordinance. Key components included: permanent public art and the performing arts, working with the City staff to select highlighted permanent artworks, and hiring of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre to create site-specific choreography for each public work site. Multiple performances took place highlighting 6 public artworks, with recorded or live music. Each event concluded with a public Q&A between the visual artists, dancers and choreographer. The series was filmed to provide the City with an archival document. Additionally, rehearsals were open to the public, which provided opportunities for community members to experience the choreographic process.

ROBOTS!

Curated a temporary, site-specific Westfield Culver City sculpture exhibition and film (showing the sculptor’s process), which aired on a screen above the exhibition and simultaneously on Westfield Culver City’s social media sites. Also created a family educational event with the artist as an additional component of the successful exhibition.

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Selected to conduct research and provide a feasibility study to assist the developer, Jim Suhr and Associates, with their decision on how to fulfill Culver City’s APPP requirement. Completed research, performed outreach to new media visual artists and provided multiple unique concepts for the site-specific space within the development, including budgets and multiple partner presentations.

welcome media artwall

For Roundtree Visuals, selected to be the Media Artwall curator for Providence Saint John’s Heath Center. The Media Artwall provided an unusual curatorial framework in which to exhibit local community artworks from artists and arts collectives. Providence Saint John’s Welcome Media Artwall won top honors in 2010 for the Use of Art in the Patient Environment.

mfa conversations parts I, II and professor dialogs

Brewery Artwork Association’s Curator of Exhibitions at the I-5 Gallery, Brewery Arts Complex. Curated a 3-part series of MA/MFA shows surveying the graduate programs in Southern California. MFA Conversations Part I: UC Irvine, Claremont College, Cal State University: Fullerton, Northridge, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Long Beach; MFA Conversations Part II: Art Center College of Design, University of California: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Riverside, Otis College of Art and Design and CALARTS; Professor Dialogues: faculty from aforementioned schools. Public programming occurred with all exhibiting artists throughout the series.

WORK

Marla has worked for several of the nation’s leading Real Estate Developers and operators of Regional Shopping Centers, implementing their Specialty Leasing Programs nationwide for nearly 20 years.

She has also conducted artist research for multiple public art commissions, assisted with artist communications and documentation.

Marla’s depth of experience provides her with a unique skill set coupled with an acute sensitivity to the needs of her clients, a rarity within the art advisory community.

THE COMMUNITY

Marla was appointed to the Culver City Cultural Affairs Commission and served for 8 years. During her tenure, she was Chair for 3 years, Vice-Chair for 3 years and served 8 years on the public art subcommittee, an experience that directly informed her work on revising the Art in Public Places Program Ordinance. Marla also spearheaded the first Culver City Creative Economy report, a landmark study of the significant relationship between economic development and the creative community.

ART ADVOCATE

Marla was a Culver City Cultural Affairs Foundation Board Member for 7 years, with two years as Board Chair, and initiated and coordinated Architecture Talks, a 3-part fundraising series that highlighted the Art as Architecture component of the Art in Public Places Program.

WORLD VIEW

Marla travels extensively to view the best examples of site-specific installations, public art projects and attend highly respected international and national exhibitions for inspiration.