Visual ARTs Update

Visual arts update

Hope everyone has started the school year on a positive note, it’s a tumultuous time in LAUSD, but when is it ever calm?

If there are colleagues in visual or media arts that are not receiving my updates, please give me their contact info so I can add them to my list. With so many transitions, it’s hard to keep up an accurate distribution list.

PD Series
Banked Tuesdays at LACMA and Getty
•LACMA: October 4, December 6, February 7, April 17
LACMA West, 5th floor;
3pm – 4:30pm
•Getty: March 6, March 27
3pm – 4:30pm

•I’ve arranged with LACMA to coordinate some of our Banked Tuesday meetings with their Evenings for Educators (4 evenings total), with an optional salary point. To obtain the salary point, register in person at the first meeting, October 4. You must attend all four Evenings for Educators to earn the salary point.
•We will be meeting at LACMA West, 5th floor (old May Co department store) for our Banked Tuesday meetings just prior to the Evenings for Educators. Of course you can still participate in the Evenings for Educators without the salary point.

Reminder that you will need administrator approval to leave your campus before the dismissal bell. I will send you an agenda about a week before the meeting if you need to have documentation for your administrator.

Secondary Instructional Guide
•The direction of PD’s this year will be through the instructional guide - vetting the instructional guide for usefulness, and aligning course descriptions. My goal is to have a few regional groups of art teachers that can meet throughout the year and make this document a useful tool for better instruction. If you are unable to make the first Tuesday meeting at LACMA on October 4, but are interested in this work. I won’t be posting the Instructional Guide on the website until we have more input among the art teachers.

Student Opportunities
•Attached is the Michele Obama ‘Save the Redwoods’ Art Contest. Details for submission are in the PDF
•La Plaza Museum is hosting an educator open house (free admission and instructional materials) this Sunday, Sept 25. Please see attached PDF.

Keep in touch,
Luiz Sampaio
Visual Arts Specialist
LAUSD, Arts Education Branch
213 241-3387
luiz.sampaio@lausd.net

Join Room 13 LA for a showing of our newest artwork and live music by a Jazz Combo led by Mr. Holland’s Opus Award Winner Mr. Womack. Room 13 returns to the Brewery to bring you paintings, design, jewelry, photography, found sculpture, glass work and much more. We will also host live collaborative art making for adults and kids of all ages. We will be joined by our Southern California Room 13 brethren from Eliot Middle School and John Muir High School.




Open from 11AM to 6PM each day the Art Walk itself is spectacular with access to over a hundred art studios, food, drink and music at the biggest art colony in Los Angeles.

When: Saturday and Sunday, October 1st and October 2nd from 11AM to 6PM
Where: 2020 N. Main, #020, LA, CA, 90031
The main front of the Brewery is at 2100 N. Main, LA, CA, 90031
Below is a map of the brewery with Room 13’s location

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Call for Entries

This is a call for entries to the 2011 Latino International Film Festival Youth Filmmakers' Showcase.

It will be held on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 10am. We are looking for high-quality video projects from your students. The top three entries will receive a prize including, a copy of Final Draft 8 and Final Draft AV. The director of the top entry will receive recognition at the closing night ceremony of the festival.

The deadline is June 30th. (Yeah, I know, in one week)

Attached is the application. Also, even though the application asks for a DVD and because of the short notice, we would prefer to have completed applications scanned and sent as a PDF with a link to the project on Vimeo.com. You can choose to keep the video private and password protected so that only the LALIFF jury can see the film. Please also set the video to be downloadable.

So, please send the following to mediaeducatorsla@me.com:

• Completed, signed, and scanned application form (PDF)
• 2 digital stills (600dpi)
• Link to downloadable video on Vimeo.com


If you need to send a DVD, please send it to:
LALIFF
c/o Youth Program
6705 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028


And of course, if you have any questions, feel free to email me.


Antonio Manriquez
Youth Advisory Board Member
LALIFF latinofilm.org