L.A. County Arts Ed Collective

🎉 We are excited to share the Arts Education Collective 20th Anniversary Celebration Book!

Back in 2002, the Board of Supervisors launched the Arts Education Collective to make sure all of the County’s young people have access to the many benefits that arts education provides. Today, this coalition is an award-winning national model of public-private partnership and collective impact.

To mark the milestone, we’ve put together a Celebration Book that highlights two decades of work and progress in making equitable and accessible in LA County.

The Collective includes school districts, charter school networks, arts organizations, teaching artists, County agencies, and philanthropic partners. So, fittingly, the Celebration Book acknowledges and thanks hundreds of individuals, organizations, and agencies who have come together to accomplish more than any of us could have achieved alone.

We invite you to explore and share the book linked here: https://bit.ly/3r0owXT, and learn about ways to engage with the Arts Ed Collective! In coming weeks, we’ll feature excerpts and artwork—some of it commissioned by student artists. Help us build the next 20 years of arts education for our young people, in our schools and our communities!

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is looking for well-qualified candidates with experience designing, implementing, and/or carrying out tasks for one or more of the following types of programs: visual art; public art; art collections management; performing arts; arts education; grant-making; arts research; arts program communications; or similar arts programs.

Exam Title: Program Associate, Arts and Culture

Exam No.: RT8805B

Exam Type: Open Competitive

Starting Salary: $ 5,770.46, Monthly

Filing Period: Online applications will ONLY be accepted effective Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 12:30 (PST). Filling will be suspended after the first 150 applications are received, or by Friday, April 7, 2023 before 5:00 p.m. (PST), whichever occurs first. Any applications received after the first 150 will not be considered.

To view the job bulletin in its entirety, visit:
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/lacounty/jobs/3952578/program-associate-arts-and-culture?sort=PostingDate%7CDescending&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

If you have any questions regarding this exam, contact [email protected].

Last week, Los Angeles County Office of Education held a launch event for Gladeo LA at BioscienceL.A. in Culver City. It was attended by employers, education partners, community-based organizations, and key workforce leaders who gathered to hear about the new Gladeo LA multiple-industry-sector career navigation platform.

The Los Angeles County Dept. of Arts and Culture was acknowledged as the key anchor partner for the creative industries, and Creative Careers Online (CCO) was featured as the flagship partnership model that LAEDC hopes to replicate across all other industry sectors.

Visit https://creativecareers.gladeo.org/about-creative-careers-online

Making it happen, pictured from left to right, were: Michelle & Grace Cho - Gladeo Co-Founders; Jessica Kim - Vice President of Economic and Workforce Development, LAEDC; Meia Johnson – Program Manager, Dept of Arts and Culture

Have you ever though about how you can combat climate change in your community? If so, LA County wants you to consider applying to the inaugural Youth Climate Council (YCC)! Need more info first? YCC has got you covered! Join an informational webinar on Thursday (8/26) at 6PM (PST)! ycc.lacounty.gov

The arts help students discover their voice, define their identity and build connections with others. These are all skills that students need when starting the school year, as well as every other part of the year. Join us and in the fight to make this school year an arts centered year.

Start the year with arts education and give students the opportunity for passion!

Re-sharing a July post because this Curriculum Guide is THAT good

⭐️COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHT⭐️ The L.A. County Arts Ed Collective put together a Creative Wellbeing Curriculum Guide which is an approach for fostering communities of wellness, especially for systems-impacted youth, those who are vulnerable to becoming systems- impacted, and the adults who support them. Download this free resource today: https://buff.ly/3AeQ1Qj

Save the Date!

The Los Angeles Su***de Prevention Network's virtual 2022 Summit is September 14, 15 & 16

To register: https://tinyurl.com/2022LASPNCONFERENCE

We're thrilled to partner with the Los Angeles Su***de Prevention Network (LASPN) on the 12th Annual Su***de Prevention Summit: Healing Pathways for Support and Connection.

The three-day virtual summit is free-of-cost and open to all. Participants must register by creating a free Department of Mental Health EventsHub account and registering for the event. Please find instructions here: http://lasu***depreventionnetwork.org/annual-summit-2/

LASPN takes a holistic approach to understanding and uplifting silo-breaking su***de prevention efforts, centering people with lived experience, and celebrating the tremendous role arts and culture plays in nurturing wellbeing.

Welcome back to school!

Let’s start the school year with joy and passion. Arts education provides students with outlets to find their voice and use it. Join us and in the fight for equitable and well rounded arts education, every day, all year, every year.

Opportunity for a consultant to evaluate our Creative Wellbeing program!

Open Call (RFP): Creative Wellbeing Evaluator The Department of Arts and Culture and the Arts Ed Collective are seeking a consultant to conduct an evaluation of our Creative Wellbeing program in the 2022-23 school year.

This Saturday is the Willowbrook Art Hop! Meet local artists, and check out some family friendly activities, community resources, and a walking at tour!

Our friends from Willowbrook Inclusion Network (WIN), CONTRATIEMPO, and Justice for My Sister will all be there!

We announced the awardees of our Community Impact Arts Grants this week! $750,000 will go to 75 incredible social justice and social service organizations, and municipal departments throughout LA County.

These aren’t traditional arts organizations, but they bring arts programming and events to LA County. They serve low-income individuals, people with disabilities, veterans, systems-impacted youth, and other underserved communities—and they span disciplines from therapeutic visual arts, to social justice filmmaking, music education for youth, dance empowerment, and museum memory programs for dementia.

CIAG was designed to do two things: make arts services available to people who might not get them through arts venues and outlets, and integrate the arts into cross-sector work at local nonprofits.

Check out our release (link in bio), which has a complete list of grantees, and some testimonials from United Cambodian Community of Long Beach, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, No Limits for deaf children, WouldWorks

Thanks to our Grants Division team, our peer review panelists, the LA County Arts Commission, the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, and most of all, the staffs at these nonprofits for the incredible work they do.

Save the Date, Aug. 6! Join and keynote speaker Jeannine Otis for the 2022 Virtual Creative Classroom Symposium! Learn about the impact are making in the world of , and get inspired by the creative programming they're developing. RSVP https://bit.ly/3OAAi1i