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Laid-off Marciano Art Foundation workers find their next target: Olivia Marciano

About 20 Marciano Art Foundation staff members who had been part of a mass layoff last week, only four days after announcing plans to unionize, gathered Friday at Shakey’s Pizza in Hollywood.

The specific target on this day: Marciano Artistic Director Olivia Marciano.

Laid-off Marciano Art Foundation workers find their next target: Olivia Marciano

Marciano Art Foundation and the value of ‘art labor’

Dozens of fired museum employees and their supporters rallied last Friday outside the Marciano Art Foundation, the now-closed arts institution in a former Scottish Rite Masonic Temple on Wilshire Boulevard.

Marciano Art Foundation and the value of ‘art labor’

Labor Organizers Have Filed a Complaint Against the Marciano Art Foundation Over Its Abrupt Closure in the Wake of Unionization Efforts

Los Angeles labor organizers have filed a complaint against the Marciano Art Foundation after the museum abruptly closed last week. The museum had previously laid off all its visitor services staff—some 70 people—just days after employees announced plans to unionize.

Labor Organizers Have Filed a Complaint Against the Marciano Art Foundation Over Its Abrupt Closure in the Wake of Unionization Efforts

Marciano Art Foundation lays off employees, closes to public until further notice

Employees of the Marciano Art Foundation weren't allowed in when they showed up for work Friday. In fact, no one was.

Marciano Art Foundation lays off employees, closes to public until further notice

Marciano Art Foundation Workers Protest Mass Layoffs and Sudden Shuttering of the Museum

A group of about 50 visitor services associates gathered outside the Marciano Art Foundation at 10:30am on Friday, the same as they would on a regular workday in anticipation of clocking in.

Marciano Art Foundation Workers Protest Mass Layoffs and Sudden Shuttering of the Museum