Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

We have opened a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify an artist or artist team for a two-year residency to support implementation of the Vision Zero Action Plan in the unincorporated County community of Florence-Firestone. The artist/artist team will collaborate with staff from Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and LA County Public Works to develop and implement a) arts-based, healing-informed community engagement around strategies for safer streets and b) community-engaged temporary and/or permanent artworks as site interventions to enhance pedestrian safety, visibility, cultural equity, beautification, and spatial justice. Adopted in 2020 by the LA County Board of Supervisors, the Vision Zero Los Angeles County: A Plan for Safer Roadways guides efforts on reducing traffic deaths and severe injuries on unincorporated County roadways. The residency will focus on these two goals: - Build awareness of and support for Vision Zero and traffic safety generally, either in coordination with or in complement to infrastructure improvements - Complement and enhance Public Health’s Vision Zero traffic safety education and activities 🔹Please visit https://lnkd.in/gWGvs5wa application and additional information🔹 Candidates interested in applying must reside or work within Los Angeles County. Deadline to apply is October 8, 2024, at 5PM (PST).

📣 We are excited to announce that GRANT APPLICATION SEASON has arrived! 🔸 Organizational Grant Program – Application NOW OPEN 🔸 Community Impact Arts Grant – Application NOW OPEN 🔸 Arts Internship Program (For Organizations) OPENS September 10 For more information on each program, please visit our link https://lnkd.in/gsmCYmVg Levine Act Update: Applicants to all Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture grant programs are now required to comply with new California State Legislation known as the Levine Act (SB1439). To comply, applicants must complete a Contribution and Agent Declaration Form as part of their application to the Organizational Grant Program, Community Impact Arts Grants, or Arts Internship Program. For more information, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gjHqdF68 to sign up for an info session. 📸: @diavolo_la ------- About our Grants: The Organizational Grant Program (OGP) provides nonprofit arts organizations with funding so they can address their priority needs and ensure cultural services for diverse communities of LA County. Thanks to leadership from the Board of Supervisors, there was an ongoing increase to the funding for OGP this year. Moving forward an additional $1.2M will be available for applicants of OGP, this was the first increase in over 15 years for LA County’s longest-running arts grant program. Deadline: October 1, 2024 | 11:59PM (PDT) Office Hours available. Community Impact Arts Grant (CIAG) supports arts projects and programming taking place at nonprofit social service and social justice organizations and in municipal departments, enabling them to deliver a wide variety of services to County residents that support arts and culture. Deadline: October 1, 2024 | 11:59PM (PDT) | Office Hours available. The application for organizations for the 2025 Arts Internship Program will open on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. The Arts Internship Program (AIP) supports eligible LA County arts nonprofits, municipalities, and social justice and social service organizations that offer arts programming with grants to hire undergraduate and community college students for 400 hours of paid work experience. AIP is the largest paid undergraduate arts internship in the country, providing opportunities at performing, presenting, literary and municipal arts organizations. Application Window: September 10 - October 15, 2024 | 11:59PM (PDT)

👀🎨📚Are you (or do you know) a high school student passionate about arts & politics? We’re looking for student leaders (9th-12th grade) to join our ACTIVATE Student Organizing Program this fall to learn skills to bring access to arts education & advocacy to *everyone* in their communities. Learn more & apply by August 14 at https://lnkd.in/gMAzmcVc

With excitement from the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and in anticipation of Los Angeles’ role as host of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympics Games, students from the three LA County art and design schools in the 2024 Cultural Olympiad Poster Competition were honored today with a celebration at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors - LACountyBOS meeting and a presentation by Board Chair Lindsey Horvath. The presentation was attended by dignitaries including the Deputy Consul General of France in Los Angeles Dimitri Demianenko @franceinla, students and staff from ArtCenter College of Design, Otis College of Design and California Institute of the Arts, project partners, representatives of LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games, arts sector leaders, and more. Poster winner and recent Art Center graduate Olivia Brett spoke about her experience with this project and how she has bought the spirit of the Olympics into her professional work. “Arts and culture have long been part of the Olympic Games, from cultural initiatives, arts festivals, artwork commissions, and special projects, and are worthy of more visibility. The unprecedented collaborations recognized today—the Poster Competition, our historic MOU, and the Los Angeles County and City collaboration with Paris—promote cultural diplomacy and highlight roles the arts can play. We are grateful to Paris, City of LA, and all our partners, and congratulate the student artists in the Poster Competition. It’s exciting to foster artistic projects in both Paris and LA as part of the 2024 Paris Cultural Olympiad, and to deepen our learnings as we plan and prepare for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles,” said Kristin Sakoda, Director of the Department of Arts and Culture. The 24 selected posters are on exhibit now in Paris at the Jardin Villemin - Mahsa Jîna Amini through September 9, 2024. All Los Angeles County winners as well as the winners from @epsaa_officiel in Paris are featured. Here in Los Angeles, we have partnered with The Music Center to exhibit the posters digitally in Jerry Moss Plaza and with City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to exhibit the posters in City Hall’s Bridge Gallery. You can also visit the link in our bio for digital versions. Photos: @govtphotogla, Bryan Chan

We are so thrilled to have 826LA participate in our Arts Internship Program! Apply for their positions and be part of our 2024-2025 class.

Now is the time to share your thoughts on #Prop28. This Arts for LA survey closes on Monday, July 1.

Kickstart Your Career in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment Industries! 🎙️ 🎭 📽️ 🎬 This Thursday, May 16, the Entertainment Equity Alliance is hosting the first-ever Careers in Entertainment Expo on the South Lawn West of Exposition Park, Los Angeles. This groundbreaking FREE event is an opportunity for high school students, college students, and young adults to explore creative careers through interactive exhibits, networking with industry professionals, and discovering new opportunities. Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is a proud sponsor of the Careers in Entertainment Expo and a founding partner of the Entertainment Equity Alliance. Stop our Creative Careers Online booth at the expo and explore this free career navigation tool and hear from diverse professionals about how to succeed in these fields. We look forward to seeing you! Register at our 🔗https://lnkd.in/ghB3Q3Hd Creative Careers Online is part of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture's Creative Career Pathways for Youth program. The program is part of the Cultural Equity & Inclusion Initiative, and is guided by research in Building Creative Career Pathways for Youth: A Field Scan for LA County. The program focuses on building pathways for youth who have historically experienced barriers to employment and are often unaware of creative careers, earning potential, arts education programs, and work-based learning opportunities. This program aims to reduce barriers and change perceptions, ensuring all youth have equitable access to creative jobs and careers in LA County.

Congratulations to our partners over at Avid Core on their Hermes Creative 2024 Gold Award! Thank you for the award winning contributions to the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission's work.

For decades, beginning with the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, the Olympics included competitions in painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature — a “pentathlon of the Muses,” as Pierre de Coubertin, the founder and leader of the modern Olympics, called them. “From now on they will be part of each Olympiad, on a par with the athletic competitions,” Coubertin said. Thousands of artists, some of them famous, most of them not, submitted works. More than 150 Olympic arts medals were awarded, the same medals that athletes received. At the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, 400,000 people visited the monthlong exhibition of entries. https://lnkd.in/gBcEdG6Y

We hope you will join us for this presentation about our recent collaborative report on Los Angeles County's arts and culture workforce.