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Press Releases

03/03/2021

Mayor Eric Garcetti and City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Announce Lynne Thompson as Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles

12/22/2020

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs announces the 2020/21 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowships Honoring the City’s Creative Spirit

12/15/2020

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Presents Tristan Espinoza, Panteha Abareshi, Maru Garcia, and Alexandre Dorriz

12/02/2020

William Grant Still Arts Center Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the Black Doll Show All Dolled up – A 40-year celebration of the William Grant Still Arts Center’s Annual Black Doll Show

11/23/2020

Department of Cultural Affairs Receives NEA Big Read Grant – The City of Los Angeles to Read and Celebrate The Round House by Louise Erdrich

08/17/2020

Department of Cultural Affairs And Councilmember David Ryu Announce the Citywide COVID-19 Emergency Response Program for Individual Artists

07/22/2020

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs presents ARCHIVE MACHINES July 30, 2020, to November 1, 2020 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

06/26/2020

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS RECEIVES NEA BIG READ GRANT The City of Los Angeles to Read and Celebrate The Round House by Louise Erdrich

06/17/2020

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs 2020 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowships 2020 COLA Online Performance and Visual Arts Exhibition Program Launching Summer, 2020

06/09/2020

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Durfee Foundation, and Community Partners Announce Round Three of COVID-19 Arts Emergency Fund for Artists and Small Ensembles, Design or Visual Artists

06/01/2020

Department of Cultural Affairs and Community Partners Announce Round Two of COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund for Artists and Small Ensembles

05/22/2020

Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian announce Business Stimulation Contracts for Nonprofit and For-profit Theater Businesses

03/26/2020

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ANNOUNCE COVID-19 ARTS EMERGENCY FUND FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS AND ENSEMBLES IN DANCE, MUSIC, AND THEATRE

01/31/2020

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery present the first institutional solo exhibitions by Los Angeles artists Lukas Geronimas, Nevine Mahmoud, and Vanessa McConnell

01/30/2020

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) today announced the formation of the nation’s first Community Teaching Artist Certificate Program

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Media Clippings

02/16/2021

The Week in Black Art, February 15-21, 2021: Los Angeles Artist Judson Powell Has Died, Theaster Gates is Co-Curating Sculpture Milwaukee 2021 Culture Type

02/15/2021

Black History Month: African American composer William Grant Still, sound/stage LA Phil and the 40th Annual Black Doll Show KTLA 5

02/14/2021

Taskmaster #3 Review: On A Mission Bleeding Cool News

02/11/2021

Your Guide to Art and Culture in NELA Boulevard Sentinel

02/11/2021

The Actors Fund and Thomas Safran & Associates Break Ground on Affordable Housing & Arts Center – The Hollywood Arts Collective Broadway World

02/11/2021

The Actors Fund Breaks Ground On $120 Million Hollywood Arts Collective Deadline

02/11/2021

Actors Fund Breaks Ground on $120 Million Affordable Housing and Performing Arts Complex in Hollywood Variety

02/10/2021

Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival Opens March 25 Broadway World

02/08/2021

MEET INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST CAULEEN SMITH LA Weekly

02/06/2021

Newsletter: Essential Arts: The Great Tortilla Conspiracy and the legacy of Chicano graphics LA Times

02/05/2021

Artist Cauleen Smith on Black Feminist Utopia in California KQED

02/05/2021

7 ways to celebrate Black History Month virtually KMBZ 98.1

02/04/2021

Center Theatre Group raises $700,000 on Zoom with RWQuarantunes party LA Times

02/03/2021

Frank Lloyd Wright Houses – everything you need to know about the homes he designed Livingetc

02/02/2021

Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for February 2021 Hyperallergic

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