This collection contains material regarding Collage Ensemble Inc., a multicultural Los Angeles area art collective. A majority of the collection contains photographs, flyers, moving images, audio files, press releases, clippings, programs, grant applications, proposals, and show notes regarding various Collage Ensemble Inc. performances, projects, and shows. Also included are financial records, memorandums, by-laws, meeting minutes, t-shirts, artwork, clippings and flyers related to Los Angeles area art; and other material.

Collage Ensemble Inc. was an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, inter-ethnic, and collaborative arts collective. From 1984-2015 the collective, with over two hundred artist participants as of 2010, created original art works such as exhibitions, multimedia gallery installations, lectures, digital arts, poetry, performances, video screenings, and technology based work in genres that addressed the urban inter-ethnic experiences and diverse identities of its members, with a focus on urban culture and experimental arts. In a [mission] statement authored in 2001, Collage Ensemble Inc. describes that they "aim to transport the viewer to a place of social understanding and alternative views; and re-examines social norms such as assimilation, class segregation, and discrimination while reestablishing them through a collective human experience. The ensemble is open to all art media and combinations of media". ("Statement", Collage Ensemble Inc.; 2001)

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