NewTown is a dedicated consortium of accomplished professional artists who donate their time to ensure new creative opportunities for their colleagues throughout Southern California. NewTown has brought cutting-edge visual arts, media, music, dance, and performance to over 100,000 people in diverse sites, including streets, alleyways, stairwells, plazas, storefronts, parking lots, a hiking trail in the San Gabriel Mountains, a swimming pool, and church basement.

Funding will be used to support the extension of 2017’s popular Vladimir’s Underpants. This year’s title is Vladimir’s Underpants Unfolded, which features 12 media and sonic artists (three pairings per night, over two nights) in public stairwells in Old Pasadena, DTLA and Monrovia, all close to Gold Line routes to enable viewers to use this mode of transportation to attend the exhibits. NewTown will commission the artists to create site-specific digital imagery using small pocket projectors in public stairwells, combined with live sonic creations. This project is scheduled to take place over two nights in  January and February 2019.