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Sculptures left in classrooms from before COVID-19 closed the campus at Santa Monica College Center For Media Design on March 11, 2021 in Santa Monica, Calif.

On Campus

Michael Goldsmith | The Corsair Santa Monica College student and Student Veterans of America Chapter President Mahadi Haque receives his second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from Mount Saint Mary’s Professor Zane Stumbrs at the Los Angeles Fire Department Crenshaw drive-through clinic on Feb. 6, 2021, in Los Angeles, Calif. As vaccines became more available, vaccination rates climbed. Students enrolled in classes on campus in the Fall Semester were required to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Jon Putman | The Corsair Saef Shaik, from the Santa Monica College Men's Swim Team, prepares for his solo race in the Men's 50 yard Backstroke on April 16, 2021, in Santa Monica Calif. After being forced to shutdown for nearly a year from the COVID-19 pandemic, the sports programs such as the swim team and other non-contact sports, are finally able to compete again.

Maxim Elramsisy | The Corsair Earvin "Magic" Johnson talks to children at the Holiday Hope at Crete Academy in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, December 4, 2021. About 400 students at the event left with bicycles and Christmas gifts after enjoying food, games, arts and crafts, and activites. Traffic on Crenshaw Blvd. is halted for as cars burn rubber and turn donuts. Dozens of onlookers vacate their cars for a better view as up to four cars at a time spin in circles in Los Angeles, Calif on Oct. 23, 2021.

Firefighters watch from the edge of a bluff over-looking the Ballona Wetlands as a helicopter drops water on a brush fire below in Culver City, Calif. on March 25, 2021.

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The City

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Marco Pallotti | The Corsair A Black Lives Matter street mural was painted in front of the First Baptist Church of Venice on E. L. Holmes Square in Los Angeles, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.

A man wrapped in a Black Lives Matter flag at a memorial held for George Floyd on April 25, 2021 in Hollywood, Calif. Protesters at a pro-Palestine rally at the Israeli Consulate in West Los Angeles, Calif., on Tuesday, May 12, 2021. Tension between Israel and Palestine escalated in violence. During May, as violent protests and deadly airstrikes occured in Gaza and Israel, people around the world reacted to the dangerous situation.

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Jaime Leon | The Corsair Tension escalates in front of "Iglesia de San Hipólito y San Casiano" as protestors attack police with hammers, rocks and other melee weapons on March 8, 2021. The International Womens Day protest was fueled by anger at President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who was endorsing a politician facing multiple rape accusations. Mexico has some of the worlds worst incidence of gender violence

Jaime Leon | The Corsair Woman shouts with passion and anger while banging on a metal bowl in front of the Palacio Nacional at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Mexico on March 8, 2021.

Jaime Leon | The Corsair Woman steps forward to spray paint the police shields creating a barrier in front of the Iglesia de San Hipólito y San Casiano in Mexico City, Mexico on March 8, 2021.

Jaime Leon | The Corsair Woman ignites spray paint can and aims at police officers on the other side of the barricade in front of the Palacio Nacional at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Mexico on March 8, 2021.

Marco Pallotti | The Corsair A composite image of entrepreneur and creator of "Elsewhere at the Madcap Motel," Paige Solomon, photographed in one of the many rooms in the motel, in downtown Los Angeles, Calif. on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.

Re-establishing the Arts

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Maxim Elramsisy | The Corsair Dave Matthews, leader of the Dave Matthews Band, performs at the Five Point Amphitheater in Irvine, Calif. on September 10, 2021. The concert was scheduled for 2020 but was postponed for a year due to COVID-19. Rose Shoshana, founder and owner of the Rose Gallery, peering through a decorative plant in the gallery's outdoor space before th exhibition "All This Happened: 29 years of Rose Gallery" on April 16, 2021 in Santa Monica, Calif. Cain Carias, also known as The Puppetmaster, poses for a photo with his two puppets, El Trieste on the left and La Smiley on the right. His puppeteering and puppets were used in the short film "El Triste" which will be playing at the Hola Mexican Film Festival at the Regal Theater in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sept. 23, 2021.

Pianist Paul Cornish at his piano on April 17, 2021. He is a Jazz residenct at 18th Street Arts Center and Studio in Santa Monica, Calif. He was the recipient of the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s 2020 New Note Commission and was the winner of the 2018 American Jazz Piano Competition.

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