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, August 16, 2011

Arts Job Opportunity

Job opportunities
There are a number of art positions still open. Priority will be given to displaced, credentialed LAUSD art teachers. If all displaced teachers have positions, then HR will open up the priority list to recently RIF’d teachers.

Below are some of the openings that may not be listed in HR’s job posting site:
http://certificated.lausd.k12.ca.us/cert/vacancies.html

•Edison MS
Note from Colleen Kaiwi, principal:
Edison is located in an unincorporated part of L.A. County South Central L.A., Local District 7. We have an excellent school the lowest suspension rates and have gained 65 API points in the last three years. We are a QEIA school and elective classes are normed around 30 students to a class. Edison operates as a family; we appreciate the arts and take care of our teachers.

Our students matriculate into the new South Region HS #2; one of the small schools has a visual and performing arts focus. Having a program here for the students to matriculate into would be ideal. Edison is in need of an instrument/music teacher and an art teacher, someone who could help with the Consortium referrals and help us to attract School for Advanced Studies students in the areas of Art and Music. Our former Art teacher was part of our GATE team and was certified.

Contact:
Coleen Kaiwi, Principal
ckaiwi@lausd.net
Thomas A. Edison Middle School
6500 Hooper Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90001

•ArTes High School
Digital arts and/or a combination of traditional visual arts

Contact:
john.j.lawler@lausd.net



Choreographer looking for visual artist:
I am a choreographer and creating an evening length work - it is an Urban Latin Dance Theater work - contemporary dance - for the Ford Amphitheater - but also to tour in the next few years. The debut is the Ford but I would like to make sure to have a clear and strong visual design of the work so that when we begin touring with it - and perform outside of the Ford - it maintains this visual strength as in the debut performance.

There are already very clear set/prop pieces and I really just need someone with a strong visual sense and expertise to tie it all together and construct the set piece that will go around the musicians. We have a fabulous costume designer who is building some of the smaller props, and some of the props are already built/constructed - like chairs and three industrial reels.

I would love to speak to you more about the work - and what this would all look like - we don't have a huge budget because we are a non-profit, but I will definitely pay you - I would like to talk about cost as well.

Our debut is September 23rd, 2011 - so it's coming up fast! Please contact us directly through email at contra1tiempo@gmail.com or by phone at (323) 529-3203.


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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Hold Up Art





Check out the newest show -

Septerhed Speaks

As can be expected, at an art gallery, there’s a constant flux of artists that step in and out our front doors. Some are well known, while others are just finding their footing; some have lofty aspirations, others are more modest, while others still are better able to verbalize their perceived awareness of the impact and position their art holds in an ever-changing contemporary art scene.

As we have gotten to know Sept better and better, we discovered he is a young artist not only of many mediums, interests, and goals, but one who is just as prolific in talking about his art (and art in general) as he is in producing it.

For his upcoming show at Hold Up Art, "Subversive Holiday," Septerhed is generating a fresh new collection of works based around four original characters: the wolf, the toxin (pictured below), and the geohead family, composed of magnet heads and dead table heads. He envisioned these to embody the four stages and emotions of our existence that he notes most inspire him, namely life, death, love, and hate.
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