California’s recent historic investments in arts education and community schools have laid a strong foundation for transformational learning. This brief shares findings from two research studies of culturally sustaining multigenerational artmaking at the UCLA Community School, an established K-12 university-assisted public school serving immigrant families in central Los Angeles. The school has been a site of statewide learning for the California Community Schools Partnership Program, which launched in 2021 as a $4.1B whole child investment to transform schools into community hubs. Complementing this investment, in 2022 California voters approved  Proposition 28, The Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act, mandating a permanent 1% allocation of the K-12 education budget for arts and music education in public schools – amounting to $1B in 2023. To address systemic inequities, similar to the community schools investment, schools serving low-income communities receive a larger share of the funding. Both investments also share a commitment to culturally sustaining education and community engagement. Looking inside the development of the UCLA Community school’s Multigenerational After-School Arts Program (MASA) is an instructive case of reform integration and community-based learning.