LAUSD and the Arts

The Los Angeles Unified School District recognizes that education in the arts make a unique and vital contribution to a child*s cognitive development. Therefore the District is committed to providing all students with opportunities to attain a substantive education in the visual and performing arts at all grade levels, an education that will prepare them to create, collaborate, problem solve, perform, and appreciate works of art.

On July 22, 1999, the Los Angeles Unified School District*s Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution to commence a 10-year effort to establish arts for all students, at all grade levels, in all schools, in all four art forms. To accomplish this goal, LAUSD*s Arts Education Branch began Arts Program Schools (APS) at the elementary level. In the first eight years of the program the number of schools participating has grown from 54 to 392 and it is projected that by 2010 all elementary schools in the District will have the opportunity to participate in the APS project.

In the 2007 - 2008 school year the Arts Education Branch launched a new project at the middle school level to meet the needs of middle and high school arts teachers. The Arts Bridging Teacher Project assigns various visual and performing arts teachers to feeder schools in order to build enrollment and experience in individual art forms .

In addition to the four arts content areas mentioned above, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts Education Branch (AEB) seeks to establish and support Media Arts as a fifth standards-based Arts Content discipline. Media Arts are an art form comprising of a range of creative and expressive uses of media and communications technologies, including, but not limited to , digital imaging, graphic and web design, video/film production, television, digital music, video gaming, mobile devices and interactive media.

Work has begun on the next 10-year District Arts Education Plan. The second 10-year plan must extend the critical and necessary components of a well-rounded, dynamic and rich arts education and will focus on a K - 12 continuous and articulated curriculum. The Los Angeles Unified School District recognize that the Arts programs benefit students from the entire spectrum of educational programs and demographics, including special education, at-risk, GATE, and English Learners. LAUSD further understands that the Arts, (all five) increase student engagement, empower students' creative voices, and promote active participation in an increasingly networked world.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Job opportunity

City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
PRE-QUALIFIED ROSTER

The Department of Cultural Affairs is seeking experienced and talented
graphic designers to provide graphic design services for various DCA
printed collateral and web-based materials, including Heritage Month
Calendars, Festival Guides, Program Brochures, Requests for
Qualifications, Event Marketing Materials and other pieces as needed.
Selected graphic designers will be required to produce PDF comps and
final digital files for DCA printed materials and website use.

b u d g e t
The graphic design budgets for individual projects range from $500 to
$25,000.

e l i g i b i l i t y
This local call is open to graphic designers residing in the Southern
California region (Ventura to San Diego counties). Applicants must have
a minimum three years of paid graphic design experience. Employees of
the City of Los Angeles are ineligible to apply.

s e l e c t i o n p r o c e s s
A selection committee comprised of DCA staff and graphic design
professionals will convene to review submissions received through this
public call. The selection committee will identify a group of graphic
designers as finalists and these finalists will constitute a
pre-qualified roster of graphic designers. Pre-qualified graphic
designers will be contacted as individual projects arise. Graphic
designers selected to the pre-qualified roster are not guaranteed a
commission but will be eligible to bid on specific projects. The
pre-qualified roster will be in place for a term of four (4) years from
the date of selection.

r i g h t s & r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s
The Department of Cultural Affairs reserves the right to decline all
submissions, cancel this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) or cancel any
qualified list, at any time. This RFQ is subject to MBE/WBE and the
Living Wage, Contractor Responsibility, Equal Benefits Ordinances, and
other ordinances in effect.

s u b m i s s i o n r e q u i r e m e n t s
One complete application must include:
1. Completed application slip.
2. Letter of interest, one page maximum.
3. Résumé of professional experience, four pages maximum.
4. A total of ten (10) work samples, in either, or both, of the two
following categories:
a) Printed collateral (physical samples)
b) Web-based material (PDF samples on disc)
5. Annotation to accompany the ten work samples, describing the
nature of each sample and any other relevant information.

Please note that all items (except for the completed application slip
and, if applicable, printed collateral) must be submitted on a CD-ROM.
Please also note that application materials will not be returned.

m a i l a p p l i c a t i o n s t o :
City of Los Angeles
Department of Cultural Affairs
Attention: Becky Snodgrass, Graphic Designer RFQ
201 North Figueroa Street, Suite 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90012

q u e s t i o n s ?
Contact Becky Snodgrass
Department of Cultural Affairs
becky.snodgrass@lacity.org

d e a d l i n e :
Friday, October 2, 2009. Completed applications must be hand-delivered
by 4 p.m. or postmarked by the U.S. Post Office, UPS, Federal Express,
or similar delivery service no later than 12 midnight, Friday, October
2, 2009. The Department of Cultural Affairs strongly recommends
obtaining proof of mailing. All incomplete applications or submissions
postmarked or delivered after October 2, 2009, will be returned to
sender. An RFQ Application Slip must be included with each application.

(Please complete, detach and submit this portion with your
application.)

a p p l i c a t i o n s l i p

Name:


Address:


City: State:
Zip:

Phone: Email:


LA City Council District: Number of Years as a Professional
Graphic Designer:

Please do not reply to this email. Thanks!

City of Los Angeles
Department of Cultural Affairs
Public Art Division
201 North Figueroa Street, Suite 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213/202.5544
culturela.org

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