Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative: Literature Review
This literature review provides background information on how others have addressed how to improve diversity, cultural equity, and inclusion in the arts and culture sector, with a particular focus on boards of directors, the arts and culture workforce, audiences and programming, and culturally specific arts organizations.
Volunteers in Arts Nonprofits in LA County
In 2012, 35,076 volunteers worked nearly six million hours at 386 nonprofit arts organizations in LA County. This report explores the role of volunteers in arts nonprofits.
Stability. Experimentation. Growth: LA County’s Organizational Grant Program in 2014
August 15, 2015
In 2015, Arts and Culture analyzed data from 2014 reports written and submitted by grantees of the Organizational Grant Program, to identify trends in the field and to improve the program.
Creative Work: How arts education promotes career opportunities beyond the arts
April 15, 2015 Arts Ecology
In 2013, 198,110 people in LA County were employed in 79 creative occupations. Half of those jobs did not require a bachelor’s degree. What kinds of careers are available, how well do they pay, and what training is required?
We Are In This Together: A survey of community arts partners in LA County Public Schools
March 18, 2015 Arts Education
In 2013, the Arts Ed Collective + Arts and Culture administered a survey to arts organizations and teaching artists across the County, to find out who provided arts education services to LA County's 2,198 public schools.
Benefits in Arts Nonprofits in LA County
January 15, 2015 Funding
This study found that arts nonprofits in LA County may be more likely than employers in other sectors to provide health benefits to their employees.
Salaries in Arts Nonprofits in LA County
May 15, 2014 Arts Ecology
Analyzing data from the Cultural Data Project, Arts and Culture found that nonprofit arts organizations in Los Angeles County paid some $266.6 million in salaries to the equivalent of 4,650 full time employees in 2011.
Arts Education Brief: Trends Since 2005
Arts education across all 81 school districts in LA County has held steady since 2005/06, despite the recession and even as the total number of students enrolled in public schools has declined. That’s what Arts and Culture learned when analyzing data on arts courses, enrollment, and teachers that was reported by school districts to the California Department of Education (CDE).