The Department of Arts and Culture in collaboration with Claremont Graduate University’s Center for Business and Management of the Arts today released a new paper titled Accessibility and the Arts: Reconsidering the Role of the Artist.

Based on interviews with disabled and non-disabled artists and art professionals, this research study, Accessibility and the Arts: Reconsidering the Role of the Artist, investigates the role of artists and the museums that exhibit their work in making artwork accessible to people with disabilities.

The 2019-20 End of Year Report provides an overview of how the Arts Ed Collective has adapted our work to support partners, youth, and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. This summative report on activities between January and June 2020 addresses the ways in which County agencies, school districts, and community-based organizations are pivoting to remote programs and services to ensure that youth across the region engage in quality arts education.

What began as a health crisis has become an economic crisis and a moment of reckoning for racial justice. Since mid-March, systemic and structural inequities across LA County have become more visible than ever before.

Outgoing Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas has allocated $1M for a grant program that will support the arts in the Second District.

Photo Courtesy of DIAVOLO Dance Theater. LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE AWARDS $12M IN CARES ACT CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDS TO 337 LOCAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS

View our November, 2020 Newsletter, which includes info on reopening Arts and Culture—safely, the New Blueprint for Arts Education, the CEII Advisory Committee, and more! Learn More

The New Regional Blueprint for Arts Education contains strategies for increasing arts education in school, after school, and in communities, including juvenile justice, foster youth, and workforce development systems.

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture has announced that grants totaling $811,600 will be awarded to 40 Los Angeles County school districts.

The LA county Department of Arts and Culture announces more than $4.8 million in grant awards for the Organizational Grant Program and the Community Impact Arts Grant Program.

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Receives $10 Million for Cares Act Arts Relief Fund.

On August 4, 2020, the Board of Supervisors will consider a motion that would direct the Chief Executive Officer to identify funding in the Fiscal Year 2020-21 Supplemental Budget to increase the Organizational Grant Program by $3.6M over three years.

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture has been recognized with four Achievement Awards from the National Association of Counties (NACo).

Creating Connections: An Arts and Culture Framework and Toolkit establishes standards for arts and culture as core programming across all County parks, and was developed by Creative Strategist Sandra de la Loza.

Five years ago, Los Angeles County Supervisors Hilda L. Solis and Mark Ridley-Thomas introduced a motion, unanimously adopted by the Board of Supervisors, that set the then Arts Commission on a journey to create a framework for advancing cultural equity among the region's arts and culture sector.