Cross-Sector

Creative Strategist Program Evaluation
An evaluation of the first six residencies of the Creative Strategist program finds that a significant amount of art-as-process occurred across the residencies, with many of the creative strategists doing work engaging communities, especially those historically underserved by local government.
Creating Connections
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.
Healing Through Story
Healing Through Story: A Toolkit on Grassroots Approaches is a resource developed with and for Department of Mental Health staff by artist and LA County Creative Strategist Anu Yadav focusing on the power of story as an arts-based healing process.
LA County Supervisors Adopt Goals of  Plan Elevating Arts as Justice Reform Strategy
LA County Department of Arts and Culture plan advances Board commitment to create more rehabilitative, less punitive, justice system.
Department of Arts and Culture Announces $750,000 in Awards for Community Impact Arts Grant Program Grantees Include Organizations Working with System-Involved Youth, Veterans, and Programs Serving the Disability, Homeless, and Immigrant Communities
Creative Strategists and County staff bring new thinking to projects that improve services and quality of life.
Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial Re-Dedication Ceremony
The re-dedication ceremony for the Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial took place in downtown Los Angeles on July 3, 2019—the 51st anniversary of the original dedication.
LA County Releases Open Source Design Resource to Spur New Affordable Housing Free Publication on Accessory Dwelling Units to Inspire New Housing Typology in the Effort to Combat and Prevent Homelessness
A Place We Call Home: East of La Cienega and South of Stocker
Some Place Chronicles is a series of five creative placemaking projects set in five unincorporated communities in the Second District of Los Angeles County. Numerous and varied engagements with the people who live and work in these communities have culminated in five unique books—each containing explorations, documentations, and pragmatic and poetic testimonies of what has been and dreams of what might be—created by five different artists/collectives. The chronicle of Ladera Heights, View Park, and Windsor Hills—A Place We Call Home: East of La Cienega and South of Stocker—is authored by Sandy Rodriguez and Isabelle Lutterodt, working together as Studio 75.
Community Impact Arts Grant (CIAG) Application Window Open Until December 19, 2018 Funding Opportunity for Nonprofit Organizations Using the Arts to Serve Constituents