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.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Otis College of Art and Design



Otis College of Art and Design Names Milnes as new Assistant Chair, Digital Media.


Kerry Walker, Provost of Otis College of Art and Design, is delighted to announce that Kathleen Milnes has been appointed Assistant Chair of Digital Media, effective July 1, 2011.
Kathleen has worked for over thirty years in the creative industry as a senior executive, program director, and educator with experience in production, government, industry associations, corporations, and non-profits. She has held positions at the Motion Picture Association of America, the California Film Commission, and Paramount Pictures, among others. An Adjunct Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Otis since 1999, Kathleen developed and continues to teach a required two-semester senior seminar entitled "Life in the Real World: Career Planning and Personal Management," and has authored companion essays on creative occupations for the annual Otis Creative Economy Report. The consulting firm she founded in 2004, The Entertainment Economy Institute, serves the creative sector's current and future workforce through research, education, and partnerships, including providing students access to industry professionals. She has been the featured speaker at numerous education conferences, including the California Arts Project's Courage Creativity Conference.
Please join me in congratulating Kathleen on her new position!

(Editor's Note: Dear Reader, I'm excited about the possibilities and challenges in this new opportunity. As the position is not full time, my consulting firm, The Entertainment Economy Institute, will continue and is always interested in new projects. Thanks from Kathleen
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Dance Downtown


Dance




ACTIVE ARTS
Sing
Dance
Make Music
Tell Stories

DANCE


FAMILY PROGRAMS


GERSHWIN GALLERY


Dance Downtown
Two left feet? Learn how to dance and shake it, move it and groove it under the stars with live music/DJ and beginner dance lessons sprinkled throughout the evening. No experience necessary.

July 29 - Disco
Aug 12 - 60s Night
Aug 26 - Zydeco
Sept 09 - Samba


6:30pm-10pm

Music Center Plaza

Dance lessons at 6:30pm and throughout the evening

Information is subject to change.




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SpaceFinder LA


A new resource for the ARTS Community!

Arts for LA is excited to share this new resource, SpaceFinderLA.org. The site provides a long-awaited service for our arts and cultural community, enabling artists and organizations to seek and post information about venues countywide. Please feel free to to distribute the information below to your friends & networks.

SpaceFinderLA has arrived!
• “Where can I find a good rehearsal space?”
• “I need to a ‘wow’ location for our fundraiser.”
• “Where can I go to record songs?
SpaceFinderLA.org is the go-to Web site that can answer these kinds of questions. There are venues all over LA County that spark and serve the creative imagination but trying to find the right one can sometimes seem impossible. SpaceFinderLA – Creative Places for Creative People – offers the ability to search by dozens of criteria and an inventory of over 300 venues and growing! This service is free for both renters and seekers!

Please take a few minutes to test drive this new resource for yourself.

If you have a space to rent, list it! It takes only a few minutes and it’s free.

If you know colleagues with spaces to rent and/or space needs, please forward this email to them.

The success of this program relies on you. If you have comments or questions about SpaceFinderLA, please contact at LA STAGE Alliance at info@lastagealliance.com or call 213.614.0556. Your feedback and comments will help to make the site stronger and more useful to the LA County arts community.

SpaceFinderLA is a partnership of the LA County Arts Commission, Fractured Atlas and LA STAGE Alliance. The Arts Commission is leading the partner engagement and marketing effort. Fractured Atlas is providing the back end programming and infrastructure for the database, which is based on the system created for NYC and sibling sites in Austin, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington DC. LA STAGE Alliance is providing the ongoing management, marketing, maintenance and customer service for the project.

SpaceFinderLA is made possible, in part, by support from The Angell Foundation, Arts Council for Long Beach, California Community Foundation, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, City of Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, MusiCares Foundation, and Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.

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What's Happening at the GRAMMY MUSEUM


The Drop: Dee Dee Bridgewater
Presented by American Express
Thursday, August 11, 2011; 8pm

The GRAMMY Museum welcomes Tony and three-time GRAMMY Award-winning artist Dee Dee Bridgewater to The Clive Davis Theater. As a legendary vocalist, acclaimed Broadway actress, JazzSet host, and Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, Bridgewater has achieved considerable success across her dynamic forty- year career. With the upcoming August 23rd release of her newest album Midnight Sun, Bridgewater celebrates the fourth release on her own label, DDB Records. Join us for an intimate discussion, moderated by GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli, followed by an exclusive performance by the artist herself.

BUY YOUR TICKETS
Doors open at 7:30pm. American Express presale tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Museum Box Office (213.765.6803) or online. Public onsale is Monday, July 25, at noon. American Express is the exclusive payment method for presale tickets, and includes a free gift. All proceeds benefit the GRAMMY Museum.
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