Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

Calling all artists! We invite you to submit qualifications to design, fabricate, and install one or more sculptures for the entry plaza of the Environmental Justice Center, which will welcome visitors to the future Puente Hills Landfill Park. With longtime support and funding from Supervisor Hilda Solis, LA County Parks and Recreation, in collaboration with landscape architects OJB, will re-purpose the former Puente Hills Landfill site into a 142-acre park situated at the western end of Puente Hills. The park will offer sweeping views of the San Gabriel mountains and provide a wide range of recreational, cultural, and educational opportunities. The green space will help reduce temperatures, conserve water, and support biodiversity. It will be the first new regional park in the County in more than three decades. The goals of Puente Hills Landfill Park are to provide public access to nature and hands-on discovery for all, by creating an accessible and engaging park, healing local ecosystems, demonstrating regenerative practices, advocating environmental justice, and providing a public forum for learning, sharing, and advancing best practices. Deadline to Apply: Thursday, January 30, 2025, 5PM PST Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/gQMZpiBR

THIS APPLICATION IS NOW CLOSED! The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is looking for well-qualified candidates with experience designing, implementing, and/or carrying out administrative tasks for one or more of the following types of programs: visual art; public art; art collections management; performing arts; arts education; grant-making; arts research; arts program communications; or similar arts programs. Exam Title: Program Associate, Arts and Culture Exam No.: RT8805C Exam Type: Open Competitive Starting Salary: $ 6,152.36, Monthly Filing Period: Online applications will ONLY be accepted beginning Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. (PST). Filling will be suspended after the first 200 applications are received, or by Thursday, December 5, 2024 before 5:00 p.m. (PST), whichever occurs first. Any applications received after the first 200 will not be considered. Job bulletin: https://lnkd.in/gZXcfHAc If you have any questions regarding this exam, please contact careers@arts.lacounty.gov. 📷 Theatre Movement Bazaar @tmbazaar

We’re celebrating! 🎊 Arts and Culture has received a grant from The Music Man Foundation to support the LA County Arts Education Collective. The Strengthening the Sector funds will strengthen arts education across LA County’s 80 school districts through strategic planning and coaching, matching grants, professional development for educators, and data collection and analysis. Thank you to The Music Man Foundation for their continued support as we work together to expand and sustain arts education for all young people, in all schools, and in all communities.

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture allocated over $31M to post-pandemic recovery of the city's arts and cultural sector. In a new case of federal relief funding, we highlight how funds were obtained and distributed across the sector. Findings show that efforts prioritized organizations located in or have a primary program location in or within one mile of a “Highest Need” or “High Need” census tract. 🔗 #LosAngeles #ArtsResearch #FederalFunding

Did you know that the state of California has the highest level of employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports and media occupations? Check out the blog post from the Snap Foundation about the Entertainment Equity Alliance!

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.