Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

Arts for All, a program of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, has been working since 2002 to create vibrant classrooms, schools, communities, and economies by restoring all arts disciplines to the core curriculum for all of Los Angeles County’s K-12 students. Now serving forty-nine of the county’s eighty-one school districts, and working in partnership with the largest, Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts for All supports the creation of infrastructure to deliver arts education to more than half a million students. Its varied methods include Community Arts Teams that develop arts education policies in districts; teacher professional development; and seed funding for school arts coordinator positions. Supported by a Pooled Fund of corporate and philanthropic entities, Arts for All is considered a sustainable, systemic model program for arts education nationwide. The organization is also a key stakeholder in statewide advocacy and policy discussions.

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission fosters excellence, diversity, vitality, understanding, and accessibility of the arts in Los Angeles County, encompassing 88 municipalities and 137 unincorporated areas, and provides leadership in cultural services. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion and diversity. Helping individual grantee organizations develop their internal competencies for equity-focused work will in turn support the nonprofit arts field in the Bay Area to coalesce around common language and best practices for equity in the arts.

A program of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective (formerly the Arts for All pooled fund), has worked since 2002 to create vibrant classrooms, schools, communities, and economies by restoring all arts disciplines to the core curriculum for all of Los Angeles County’s K-12 students. Supported by a pooled fund of corporate and philanthropic entities, the Arts Education Collective is a sustainable program and national model for building systems for arts education. The Art of Leadership events will convene new and established leaders in arts education in LA County for collective learning in 2019.