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The 2024 Paris Cultural Olympiad Poster Competition presentation was attended by students and leadership from ArtCenter, CalArts, and Otis; the Deputy Consul General of France in Los Angeles Dimitri Demianenko; Board Chair Lindsey P. Horvath; Supervisor Hilda L. Solis; LA County Department of Arts and Culture Director Kristin Sakoda; City of LA Department of Cultural Affairs General Manager Daniel Tarica; The Music Center Senior Director, Civic Strategies & Partnerships, Letitia Fernandez Ivins; and arts sector leaders. Photo by Martin Zamora.
Greetings,

What a month! As we take in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, we were pleased to announce the 2024 Cultural Olympiad Poster Competition in a special Board of Supervisors presentation honoring the dazzling creativity of LA and Paris student artists and their art schools.

To celebrate the 2024 Games and prepare for the handover of the Olympic flame to Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the City of Paris and LA County, through the Department of Arts and Culture, co-organized the 2024 Paris Cultural Olympiad Poster Competition. Students from Paris’ Ecole Professionnelle Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques de Paris and Los Angeles’ ArtCenter College of Design, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and Otis College of Art and Design created original designs as well as GIF animations, with 24 posters selected for exhibition in Paris, Los Angeles, and online. We’re collaborating with the The Music Center to exhibit the posters on digital screens on The Music Center’s Jerry Moss Plaza and with the City of L.A. Department of Cultural Affairs for an exhibit at City Hall’s Bridge Gallery.

The Poster Competition is one in a series of LA/Paris artistic projects for this year’s 2024 Paris Cultural Olympiad and part of a larger collaboration. It began with a Leadership Exchange between LA County Department of Arts and Culture, the City of LA Department of Cultural Affairs, and our counterparts in the City of Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis region. We developed an unprecedented Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for cultural cooperation for the 2024 and 2028 Games, and now, are launching artistic collaboration projects to celebrate creative connections between LA and Paris, promote cultural diplomacy, and cultivate learnings for 2028. The historic collaboration is just one of the ways we are planning and preparing for the role of arts and culture in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games. We thank all our partners. More to come!

We also recently announced over $6.4M awarded in grants to the field via Organizational Grant Program and Community Impact Arts Grant. Congratulations to all the grantees! Check it out below.

I am also excited to share the newest artist opportunity in our Civic Art Division’s Public Artists in Development (PAiD) program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As you can explore below, we launched free online professional development workshops for artists, which run through October 2. They will cover topics including portfolio presentation, contracting, budgeting, and more—and are presented by diverse facilitators, public artists, and subject area experts.

The collaborations are robust and innovative this summer. Thank you to all our partners. I am grateful for the part we play in the LA County arts and culture ecosystem, together with you.

Onward!
Kristin Sakoda

Honoring Student Artists in 2024 Cultural Olympiad Poster Competition
2024 Cultural Olympiad Poster Competition Press Release

A collection of the student posters.
To celebrate the 2024 Games and prepare for the handover of the Olympic flame to Los Angeles for the 2028 Games, the City of Paris and Los Angeles County, through the Department of Arts and Culture, together with their partners, co-organized the 2024 Cultural Olympiad Poster Competition for the 2024 Paris Cultural Olympiad. The competition brings together students from art schools in both Paris and Los Angeles to showcase creativity, cooperation, Olympic themes, and civic engagement through art and graphic design. Students from the Ecole Professionnelle Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques de Paris (EPSAA) in Paris, ArtCenter College of Design, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and Otis College of Art and Design created original designs as well as GIF animations, with 24 posters selected for exhibition in Paris, Los Angeles, and online.
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Over $6.4M Awarded to Arts, Culture, Social Justice, and Social Service Organizations


Photo courtesy of Artlab21.
To support local arts nonprofits and the communities they serve, the we are pleased to announce over $6.4M in grants to 318 nonprofit organizations through our 2024-2025 Organizational Grant Program and Community Impact Arts Grant awards.

Thanks to leadership from the Board of Supervisors, including motions from Supervisors Solis, Mitchell, and Horvath, there was a larger allocation of funding this year, due to a $1.2M increase to the Organizational Grant Program (OGP), the first increase in over 15 years for LA County’s longest-running arts grant program. OGP grants will go to 238 organizations, 34 of which are first time applicants to the program. The total allocation for grantees this year is $5,668,000, and awards range from $700 to $122,300.
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Free Professional Development
Offerings for Artists


Graphic by Handbuilt Sudio.
We are delighted to launch the next phase of the Public Artists in Development (PAiD) program: free online workshops to support artists’ career development. Workshops will cover a variety of topics from portfolio presentation, contracting, budgeting and more, and will be presented by diverse facilitators, including established public artists, administrators, and subject area experts. The first cycle of workshops began on July 29 and is scheduled to run through October 2, 2024.
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Opportunity for Consultants


Participants Create Artwork at "¡Presente! Approaches For Activating Arts-Based Healing Centered Spaces."
ARTS INSTRUCTION AND Professional Development SERVICES FOR YOUTH IN COMMUNITIES

We are issuing a Request for Proposals to solicit proposals for a contract with organizations that can provide Arts Instruction for Youth in Community Settings and Professional Development Services for Adults Supporting Youth in Community Settings. “Community Settings” refers to County operated park sites, which serve communities that are disproportionally impacted by the justice system and other systemic inequities. Community facilities provide youth with education and mental health services, as well as athletics, vocational training, specialized tutoring, and counseling services through partnerships with other County agencies.

Contractor will provide arts instruction in one or more of a variety of disciplines (including but not limited to creative writing, dance, music, spoken word, theater, media arts, visual arts or other arts disciplines or cultural practices) for youth in County-operated Parks facilities.

Application Deadline: August 28, 2024 | 5PM (PST)
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IN BRIEF

  • Special discount! The LA Phil is presenting The Just and the Blind, a multimedia performance by spoken-word artist and arts activist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, featuring street dancer pioneer Drew Dollaz and singer nia andrews, at The Ford on August 2. The program explores themes of racial profiling, sentencing, and the prison-industrial complex from the perspective of fathers of Black and Brown children, and illuminates the unseen and under-heard experiences of incarcerated youth and the realities their families. Use promo code JBFORD24 at theford.com for 50% off select seats.
  • Our grants announcement, mentioned above, was covered by KNX News, Los Angeles Daily News, Santa Monica Mirror, and Beverly Press (pg. 14).
 
 
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