Equity & Access

Based on interviews with disabled and non-disabled artists and art professionals, this research study, Accessibility and the Arts: Reconsidering the Role of the Artist, investigates the role of artists and the museums that exhibit their work in making artwork accessible to people with disabilities.

The 2019-20 End of Year Report provides an overview of how the Arts Ed Collective has adapted our work to support partners, youth, and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. This summative report on activities between January and June 2020 addresses the ways in which County agencies, school districts, and community-based organizations are pivoting to remote programs and services to ensure that youth across the region engage in quality arts education.

What began as a health crisis has become an economic crisis and a moment of reckoning for racial justice. Since mid-March, systemic and structural inequities across LA County have become more visible than ever before.

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Receives $10 Million for Cares Act Arts Relief Fund.

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture has been recognized with four Achievement Awards from the National Association of Counties (NACo).

Creating Connections: An Arts and Culture Framework and Toolkit establishes standards for arts and culture as core programming across all County parks, and was developed by Creative Strategist Sandra de la Loza.

Five years ago, Los Angeles County Supervisors Hilda L. Solis and Mark Ridley-Thomas introduced a motion, unanimously adopted by the Board of Supervisors, that set the then Arts Commission on a journey to create a framework for advancing cultural equity among the region's arts and culture sector.

View our July, 2020 Newsletter!

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture announced today the opening of the 2020 Arts Internship Program, the 20th anniversary of the nation’s largest paid arts internship program.

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture announces the adoption of the Countywide Cultural Policy by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the first policy of its kind in the nation.