Who We Are

We are a collective of Indigenous, Chicano, and Mexican artists, educators, curators, and designers dedicated to producing original works, exhibitions, and public artworks. Our mission extends to supporting artists, institutions, and galleries we respect through the creation of large-scale, site-specific installations, murals and exhibitions.


3B Collective members with members of the Oaxacan art collective Lapiztola during the opening of Highway Hypnosis at the Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, May 2024

3B Current Members
Alfredo Diaz, BA UCLA, 2016 | MFA Yale, 2019
Aaron Estrada, BA UCLA, 2016 | MFA VCU 2020
Oscar Magallanes, BA UCLA 2017 | UCSD MFA 2021
Adrian Alfaro, BA UCLA, 2016
Alexa Ramirez, BA Pomona College 2022
Ruben Ortiz-Torres, MFA California Institute of Arts 1992

Inactive Members
Gustavo Martinez, BA UCLA, 2015
Michael Khosravifard, BBA Loyola Marymount University 2015

About

3B Collective is a Los Angeles-based group of artists, educators, curators and designers. The original members met while doing their undergraduate studies at UCLA. 3B Collective’s works reflect their commitment to providing an inclusive platform that encourages pride and recognition of the different facets of their communities. Their work seeks to make the arts more accessible by addressing social inequalities, creating public works through shared resources, and providing peer support and mentorship for BIPOC artists.

“As children of first-generation immigrant parents, we appreciated the storytelling and educational aspects that murals in our communities provided. In reaction to the erasure and destruction of these murals, we came together to create permanent artworks that can continue to honor a community’s history, the tradition of murals and to help educate those unfamiliar with these histories. These projects work to create a sense of belonging along with promoting the role that public works play in placemaking for those in the communities in which they are installed.” – 3B Collective

Photo by: Brittany Bravo

Contact

T: (323) 686-1846

E: info@3BCollective.com

 

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