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Continuing their commitment to supporting the community, the Los Angeles Chargers and Inner-City Arts teamed up with Ball Corporation to promote the importance of sustainability.

The non-profit had multiple Enterprisers commission artworks made out of aluminum briquettes to showcase those pieces at SoFi Stadium in special galleries on Chargers gamedays.

"We wanted to work with Inner City Arts to really get an understanding of what young Angelenos are thinking about when it comes to sustainability," said Heather Birdsall, Chargers director community partnerships. "We wanted to work with Ball Corp. on sustainability because we have a platform, especially on gameday, where we can promote sustainable practices."

"We've partnered with the Chargers and Inner City Arts, to do aluminum art pieces and bring awareness for sustainability to the L.A. community," said Jessica Leary, Ball Corporation community relations manager. "The Chargers and Inner City Arts have a longstanding partnership and being their sustainability partner, we wanted to see how we could activate the community and brought in the local artists."

BRIQUETTE FACTS

50 POUNDS EACH · COMPRISED OF 1,200 ALUMINUM CANS · 100% RECYCLABLE ·

Inner-City Arts offers a safe campus for students of all ages to harbor their talent for arts. Many of these students grew up on Skid Row and are now getting arts education through the nonprofit.

"These artists are next-level amazing," Leary said. "It's super rewarding. We wanted to make sure they had an opportunity to express themselves and talk about sustainability which they're all passionate about. And then we offered them a rewarding experience to come and talk about it."

As the sustainability partner with the Los Angeles Chargers, Ball Corp. and the Bolts had these artists create their art out of a substance that is infinitely recyclable, aluminum. The final artworks, done as a group project, encapsulated everything Los Angeles while promoting the importance of sustainable practices.

"I think it's so wonderful that our students have their artwork on display at SoFi Stadium," reflected Shelby Williams-Gonzalez, Inner-City Arts president and CEO. "I think as a young person, as a young creative, to know that your piece has a home, and that thousands of people will walk by and experience it? That's really powerful."

ARTIST REFLECTIONS

75% OF ALL ALUMINUM PRODUCED IS STILL IN CIRCULATION TODAY

"Sustainability, to me, means recognizing your community as something that needs to be preserved and protected. In the art process, you can't have a set idea of what something is going to turn out to be. But it was definitely something I never would have seen myself ever doing. It was emotional but not only that, definitely empowering, too. Because it reminds me that I am grounded in my artistry and my passions and being able to share that with more people and the bigger L.A. community, it's something that's going to continue to influence me to have experiences like this." - Samantha Nieves

"One of the biggest pieces or themes that we wanted to incorporate in these pieces was theme of community. Community. Collaboration. Trying to incorporate the uniqueness, but with that being said, the togetherness of Los Angeles; all of these eclectic and different people coming together to make it what it is. I think that growing up in the time that I have, it's been made very clear that our resources are very finite ... I really challenge myself and those around me to go to the greatest extents that they can to live more sustainably. So when the Chargers came to Inner-City Arts with this wonderful opportunity creating work regarding themes of sustainability, I was really excited and honored to be able to bring these themes into my commercial work." - Mia Bella Chavez