{"id":339749,"date":"2026-03-20T21:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:11:26","slug":"lauren-halsey-opens-sister-dreamer-sculpture-park-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/339749\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Halsey Opens sister dreamer Sculpture Park Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Lauren Halsey<\/a> fans, the wait is finally over: the \u201csister dreamer\u201d sculpture park is officially open. Located at Western Avenue and 76th Street through November 2027, the new park is dually designed as an installation and community center, ready to serve the South Central community.<\/p>\n

Fully titled \u201csister dreamer, lauren halsey\u2019s architectural ode to that sure n splurge of south central los angeles,\u201d the project is a love letter to her family\u2019s multigenerational roots in the neighborhood. \u201cI grew up on Western Avenue, in the area surrounding sister dreamer,\u201d said Halsey. \u201cIt was and still is a beautiful environment, a place and time of joy, genius and freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Halsey first imagined the park over a decade ago while studying architecture at El Camino Community College. Though much of the neighborhood has changed since \u2014 buildings burned down, left abandoned \u2014 her love for its residents only grew. \u201cThe community understood that these empty lots could be used for different functions and needs,\u201d she expressed. \u201cAnd it is this same ingenuity, imaginative capacity and everyday brilliance that \u2018sister dreamer\u2019\u00a0celebrates and is focused on activating for others in my community.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The park centers on a courtyard with filled fountains, fruit trees, vegetables and plant life native to the site. Surrounding the square are eight sphinxes and towering, Hathoric columns inscribed with the faces of Halsey\u2019s personal heroes \u2014 her family, friends and community leaders.\n<\/p>\n

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\u201csister dreamer\u201d serves as a physical homebase for Summaeverythang Community Center<\/a>, the nonprofit Halsey founded in 2020. From here, the organization will host public programming focused on art, education, ecology and wellness, with a screening of \u201cLove Is the Message\u201d by Arthur Jafa first on deck.\n<\/p>\n

South Central showed up and out for the opening last Saturday, which took shape as a four-block-long street fair featuring games, sounds by Parliament-Funkadelic, a pop-up skate park, alongside garments by Supervsn<\/a> and Come Tees<\/a> aka Sonya Sombreuil. Swipe through the galleries above to see what went down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Lauren Halsey fans, the wait is finally over: the \u201csister dreamer\u201d sculpture park is officially open. Located…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-339749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}