Angelina Azcué

The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum has gone without a official director for over two years. Jason Green | Long Beach Current The Kleefeld Contemporary finds itself in a dilemma. After two years, the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum has yet to appoint a new director. Ever since the abrupt April 2024 resignation of former director Paul Baker Prindle, the institution has operated without a permanent leader, marking the longest vacancy in the museum’s history.

Katherine Suarez Rubio (center right) is the social media coordinator, and other officers and active members of SIPS club at a general meeting on February 25. Photo Courtesy of Student Illustration Production Club. Arts Ink, one of several college councils at Long Beach State, plans to rebuild a student community and introduce student leadership after spending the previous five years being run by Student Life and Development coordinators.

Local sports reporters Mike Guardabascio and JJ Fidler turned their newsroom friendship into a sports empire, creating the city’s first nonprofit news outlet in 2018. The562 represents more than just a scoreboard; it is a community-driven outlet built around a love for the city of Long Beach. The562 was early to the nonprofit model that many newsrooms now survive on, but community has always been a part of its core.