The mission of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is to advance arts, culture, and creativity throughout LA County. We fulfill our mission by providing services and support in areas including grants and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations; professional development opportunities; commissioning civic artworks and managing the County’s civic art collection; implementing countywide arts education initiatives; research and evaluation; career pathways in the creative economy; free community programs; and cross sector creative strategies that address civic issues. This work is framed by the County’s Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative and a longstanding commitment to fostering access to the arts.
Equity & Access
Department of Arts and Culture's First Announcement
Kristin Sakoda Appointed as Director of LA County Department of Arts and Culture
New Reentry Center Integrates Art and Culture
LA County Releases Open Source Affordable Housing Resource
Building Creative Career Pathways for Youth
A Place We Call Home: East of La Cienega and South of Stocker
2019 Arts Internship Program Opens For LA County Students
Art For Justice Fund Awards Arts Commission $750,000 Grant
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The LA County Arts Commission has received a one-year grant from the Art for Justice Fund to support the launch of the Arts and Youth Development Project, which will utilize a number of collaborative, arts-based strategies to transform the LA County Juvenile Justice System and dismantle the youth-prison pipeline. With this announcement, the Arts Commission joins a national cohort of 32 fall 2018 grantees.
Community Impact Arts Grant (CIAG) Application Window Open Until December 19, 2018
Funding Opportunity for Nonprofit Organizations Using the Arts to Serve Constituents
A summary and evaluation of the Summer 2018 Arts Internship Program from the perspectives of both interns and supervisors.
Awards Support Projects Ranging From Culturally-relevant Instruction to Creative Workforce Pathways
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission has announced $4,518,000 in two-year grants to 216 nonprofit arts organizations through its Organizational Grant Program (OGP). Since its inception in 1947, the arts commission has provided funding for arts and culture programming. For the last 20 years, the OGP has extended that support to include local small and mid-size arts organizations providing cultural services for the benefit of the more than 10 million residents of LA County.
Four Projects in South LA Represent Shift Towards “Art As Infrastructure”
Building on the success and excitement surrounding LA’s first-ever Arts Datathon in 2017, the LA County Arts Commission presents Arts Datathon: Collections, which aims to explore collections data as a way to increase access to the arts. This event brings together artists, curators, civic hackers, educators and arts administrators from across the region to explore collections data on topics from military memorabilia to street art.
Now in its 18th year, the LA County Arts Internship Program will provide 179 university and community college students with paid on-the-job experience at over 100 arts organizations across LA County this summer.
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