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A Message From Our Director
Wee Nehiinkem—All my Relatives by Mercedes Dorame. |
Dear Colleagues,
This November, as the home of the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission (LANAIC), the LA County Department of Arts and Culture is proud to acknowledge Native American Heritage Month, a time to highlight and lift up the cultural contributions of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) community. Each year, the LANAIC selects organizations, families, or individuals to honor—this year's honorees celebrate Roberta Javier for Spirit of Community, Chris "Spanto" Printup for Spirit of Creativity (posthumous), and Jimi Castillo for Spirit of Tradition (posthumous). You can explore more about the month and the honorees in Supervisor Hilda Solis’ Native American Heritage Month motion.
We've also been fortunate to collaborate with the LANAIC and representatives from local Tribes on the development of the Countywide Land Acknowledgment, which was adopted last November—and a new toolkit on its use that we are pleased to share with you in this newsletter. We have learned so much and are grateful to all who contributed to this resource. This work is just a first step, and we look forward to our continued partnership and engagement with local Tribes and the AIAN community.
Below you'll also find an exciting call for artists from Civic Art and an opportunity for consultants. We also highlight on our continuing engagement at the intersection of Arts and Health including the 2023 LA County Arts and Health Summit Recap and a national Music as Medicine workshop in December.
Onward!
Kristin Sakoda |
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New Land Acknowledgment Toolkit
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The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture recognizes that we occupy land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants -- past, present, and emerging -- as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide, and multigenerational trauma. This acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing, and reconciliation and to elevating the stories, culture, and community of the original inhabitants of Los Angeles County. We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands. We are dedicated to growing and sustaining relationships with Native peoples and local tribal governments, including (in no particular order) the:
- Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
- Gabrielino Tongva Indians of California Tribal Council
- Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians
- Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians - Kizh Nation
- San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
- San Fernando Band of Mission Indians
The Land Acknowledgment motion, written by Supervisors Hilda Solis and Janice Hahn, was unanimously adopted last November by the Board of Supervisors. The Land Acknowledgement was then developed over many months of collaboration with designated representatives from local Tribes. The Board also directed Arts and Culture, in collaboration with the LA City/County Native American Indian Commission, to hire a consultant to develop a toolkit and training resources for County departments, municipalities, and cultural entities to guide implementation of the Land Acknowledgment. The first set of resources are now available on lacounty.gov. Through the buttons below, explore the Implementation Guide, Frequently Asked Questions, and more. More content, including audio clips, videos, and educational resources, will be added in the coming months. We’d like to extend our sincere thanks to the many tribal representatives and individuals across the County who provided valuable input on these resource materials.
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Call for Artists
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Marina Del Rey Parking Structure Façade
The Department of Arts and Culture's Civic Art Division invites artists and artist teams residing or working within the greater LA area (Los Angeles County, Orange County, Ventura County, San Bernardino County, and Riverside County), to submit qualifications to design, fabricate, and install an artwork on the façade of a new parking structure in Marina del Rey. The new parking structure will be located on the corner of Mindanao Way and Admiralty Way, at the entrance to Burton Chace Park.
The selected artist (or artist team) will work with the Department, the architect, and other members of the design-build firm to develop their design.
Application Deadline: December 5, 2023 | 5PM (PDT)
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Request for Proposals
Participants attend the 2019 Arts Datathon. |
Arts Datathon Event Planning and Management Services
The Department of Arts and Culture, through our Research and Evaluation Division, is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit proposals for a contract with an organization that can provide Event Planning and Management Services for the 2024 Arts Datathon.
Deadline to submit Proposals: December 11, 2023 | 4PM (PST)
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Arts Datathon Background
Since 2017, the annual Arts Datathon has brought together arts administrators, artists, educators, data scientists, students, community advocates, researchers, civic technologists, and others to explore how we can use data to improve access to the arts. This event is for all and open to the public. The Arts Datathon is a one-day, in-person event with plenary sessions and interactive breakout sessions. |
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IN THE FIELD: ARTS AND HEALTH
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This month Director Kristin Sakoda and staff from our Grants and Professional Development team traveled to the Grantmakers in the Arts annual conference, where Director Sakoda participated in a national conversation on Vital Conditions of Health and Wellbeing with members of the national field including Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson. On December 14-15, Director Sakoda will present at the NEA and National Institutes of Health’s Music as Medicine workshop, which you can join virtually, to further explore ways the arts can elevate health and healing. The two-day event will also feature our LA Opera Arts and Health Summit collaborator, Renée Fleming (explore a recap of that event). We invite you to explore a blog about the workshop, along with an announcement of the recently NIH-funded Music and Health Research Networks. |
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Creative Wellbeing
Original Artwork by Danielle Galván Gomez. |
Self & Community Care Sessions
Wednesdays | 11AM - 12PM
December 13, 2023
January 17, 2023
(Online)
This monthly self-and community-care series is dedicated to all of the adults (educators, teaching artists, parents/caregivers, social workers, mental health professionals, healthcare and youth development workers, advocates and activists, and so many others) who dedicate their time, hearts, and energy to supporting young people in Los Angeles County. |
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| This monthly series is a collaboration between Creative Wellbeing and the Wellbeing4LA Learning Center. All programming is virtual and will take place on the Wellbeing4LA platform. |
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IN BRIEF
- Opera administrators, artists, and educators, as well as associates in other artistic disciplines, are invited to join colleagues from around the world for the national Opera Conference and global World Opera Forum in LA on June 3‒8, 2024. The week of debate, discussion, and networking will focus on making a case for opera in the 21st century. Learn More
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