September at the Department of Arts and Culture

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LA County Department of Arts and Culture
A message from our Director


Bolero Familiar by Wayne Healy.
Dear Colleagues,

First, for September, we recognize Hispanic Heritage Month, as declared in this motion by Supervisors Hilda L. Solis and Janice Hahn. We celebrated by uplifting some incredible artists with work on display in Whittier’s Los Nietos Community Senior Center, and collaborating with LA Plaza de Cultural y Artes, Michelin starred Chef Gilberto Cetina, City of Paris, and Food Temple to highlight food as culture as part of our LA/Paris Cultural Olympiad artistic collaboration projects.

This month we were also excited to bring back our LA County Arts Intern Summit day in person, where I had the joy of welcoming over 60 college students to Leimert Park for a day of fun, learning, cultural connection, and networking! Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, Arts Commission President Leticia Buckley, and I provided remarks, followed by breakout sessions including a drum circle at World Stage, professional headshots provided by Las Fotos Project, a walking tour of the community, and a conversation on art and technology with artist Ben Caldwell. We ended the day with a panel of arts and culture leaders talking about the role of culture in their careers and in stewarding the past, engaging the present, and envisioning the future of Leimert Park and all the communities of Los Angeles County. Check out a video snapshot of the day at this Instagram Reel.

Below, I invite you to explore additional updates, including grant application deadlines for organizations, new opportunities for artists in both our Public Artists in Development (PAiD) and Creative Strategist programs, and more. We are grateful to build infrastructure and opportunity for arts and culture field as vital to our civic lives.

Finally, I hope you will join us in congratulating Fabian Debora—Los Angeles artist, former member of the LA County Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative Advisory Committee, founder of Homeboy Arts, and longtime partner of our department and the Arts Commission in our arts and justice work—on his National Endowment for the Arts Heritage award!

Onward!
Kristin Sakoda

Grant Season is Winding Down!
Photo Depicting Dancers in front of vibrant lights

Photo courtesy of CONTRA-TIEMPO.
Get Your Organization's Application in Today!

Applications for the Organizational Grant Program (OGP) and Community Impact Arts Grant (CIAG) program close on October 1! And applications for our Arts Internship Program (AIP) grant will close October 15!
Organizational Grant Program (OGP)
OGP Apply Now Page
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OGP provides Los Angeles County nonprofit arts organizations funding to address priority needs and ensure cultural services for our diverse communities.

Application Deadline:
OCT 1, 2024 | 11:59PM (PDT)
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Community Impact Arts Grant (CIAG)
CIAG Apply Now Page
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CIAG supports arts projects and programming taking place at nonprofit social service and social justice organizations, and in tribal governments and municipal departments, enabling these organizations to deliver a wide variety of cultural services to County residents that support arts and culture throughout the region.

Application Deadline:
OCT 1, 2024 | 11:59PM (PDT)
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Arts Internship Program (AIP)
AIP Apply Now Page
2024 Arts Interns.
The Arts Internship Program provides eligible LA County arts nonprofits, municipalities, and social justice and social service organizations that offer arts programming with grants to hire undergraduate and community college students for 400 hours of paid work experience. The program will maintain a flexible timeline to be responsive to both students and organizations.

Application Deadline:
OCT 15, 2024 | 11:59PM (PDT)
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Request for Proposals (RFP)


View of the installation of the Vision Zero project by Creative Strategist Clement Hanami for the Department of Public Health’s PLACE program at Woodcrest Library. Photograph by Monica Almeida.
Artist-in-Residence With Vision Zero Los Angeles County

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a contract with an individual artist or artist team to serve as an Artist-in-Residence with the Vision Zero Los Angeles County initiative.

During this two-year residency, artist/artist team will provide the following as part of the Safe Streets and Roads for All FY22—Florence Firestone Project, to support the implementation of the Vision Zero Action Plan in the unincorporated County community of Florence-Firestone:

  • Arts-based, healing-informed community engagement around strategies for safer streets; and
  • Community-engaged temporary and/or permanent artworks as site interventions to enhance pedestrian safety, visibility, cultural equity, beautification, and spatial justice.
Deadline for Submissions: October 8, 2024 | 5PM (PST)
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PAiD Apprenticeship Call for Artists!


We are delighted to announce that we are seeking applications for the next phase of the Public Artists in Development (PAiD) program: the Public Art Apprenticeship!

The Apprenticeship Program is designed to address tough entry barriers to the field of public art by providing artists with the necessary training and support to complete a permanent public art project. Ten artists, divided into two cohorts, will be selected to receive comprehensive training, mentorship, and a project budget to complete their first permanent public art commission at an LA County site.

This opportunity is open to:

  • Visual artists working in any media whose primary residence is in Los Angeles County.
  • Artists who have not been previously commissioned for a permanent public art project through a municipality or government agency program.
  • Individual artists only; artist teams are not eligible to apply.
For complete details about the PAiD Public Art Apprenticeship and how to apply, please visit our website.

Deadline to submit applications: November 7, 2024, 5PM (PDT).
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IN BRIEF

  • Congratulations to our frequent collaborator Fabian Debora and his recent Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts! He generously mentions us in his remarks in this video, about an hour in after another beloved colleague and Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative co-chair, now NEA Chair, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, introduces him.
  • Sharing an opportunity to apply for the 2025 Right of Return Fellowship x Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize. The application submission window for the 2025 fellowship and Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize will close October 11, 2024. Download the application guide here.
  • We have supported the Department of Parks and Recreation’s Girls Empowerment Conference for several years now, and invite you to check it out! The 10th annual I Matter Girls Empowerment Conference is Saturday, October 5, 2024, at East Los Angeles College. The event is a transformative opportunity for participants ages 12-18 from across Los Angeles County to connect, learn, and be inspired. Registration is open!
 
 
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