Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

11/26/2025

Recognize these images of the public artworks at Whittier Narrows Recreation Area? 🔹Submit your own photos to our digital archive or come in person to scan your photos at Montebello Library on December 6 from 2-5pm. 🔹
📍 1550 W Beverly Blvd, Montebello, CA 90640.
Visit our link in bio 🔗

The LA County Department of Arts and Culture invites community members to share their personal and family photos of Benjamin Dominguez’s sculptures at Whittier Narrows Recreation Area (Legg Lake) over the years. Together, we’ll create a digital archive that captures community members playing on, climbing, sliding down, enjoying, dressing up, and interacting with these artworks during everyday moments and special events.

Part of the Los Angeles County Civic Art Collection, these sculptures have served as joyful icons of cultural expression, community identity, and creative play in LA County since 1961. Help us celebrate the artwork’s almost 65 years in South El Monte and represent this community’s collective history by building a collaborative and diverse collection of crowd sourced images.

Submit images online at our link bio or website. Questions? Email dgalvangomez@arts.lacounty.gov

Images courtesy of , Friends of La Laguna, and Andy Lopez.
A program of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation. Whittier Narrows Recreational Area is a park owned or operated by .

11/18/2025

has declared November 13 – 19 as

Join us in West Hollywood on Friday, Nov 21 at 6 PM for the Transgender Day of Remembrance, hosted by the City of West Hollywood and its Transgender Advisory Board.

11/14/2025

Join us on Tuesday, November 18 at the Department of Public Works in Alhambra for LA County’s annual GIS Day. This is a national day for experts and enthusiasts of geographic information systems (GIS) to celebrate and showcase their work to the public and community.

Stop by the Arts and Culture table to learn about our work using GIS to support LA County’s rapid response and measuring the impact of January’s wildfires. Also check out an interactive map of civic art at LA County libraries , and add arts and culture happenings in your community through our Arts and Culture Near You public dashboard.

GIS Day at Public Works is a free event where you can learn more about how County government and others use GIS to improve public services. Exhibitors and speakers come from a wide variety of LA County Departments, universities and colleges, and private vendors, all coming together to share their GIS knowledge and to showcase their latest GIS apps and tools, programs, and capabilities.

LA County GIS Day
November 18, 2025, 9am to 3pm
Dept. of Public Works
900 S. Fremont Ave, Alhambra, CA 91803

📷 : Artwork - The Organic Infrastructure of a Living Community by Geoff Mcfetridge, Photo by Yoshihiro Makino

11/06/2025

Between 2020–2024, dedicated $46 million in relief funding to help the arts and culture sector recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding supported nonprofits, artists, and arts workers. Our new report shows how these funds kept LA’s cultural hub alive and offers a look into reforms that can build a stronger, more resilient future for the arts: https://bit.ly/3WIhDHr

📷 : Dance Arts Foundation

11/05/2025

California’s Arts & Music in Schools Act (i.e., Prop 28) is making historic investments in arts education—but districts must spend their first-year funds before the upcoming deadline or risk having them clawed back by the California Department of Education.

Join , CA PTA, CA County Sups - Arts Initiative, and the VAPA Curriculum Specialist from Mt. Diablo USD on November 13 at 11am for a virtual briefing on ensuring funds are spent effectively and equitably.

See our link in bio to register with Create CA.

This webinar is produced by Create CA with support from LA County Department of Arts & Culture, the Los Angeles County Arts Ed Collective, Arts for LA, Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area, and Friends of Sacramento Arts.

11/03/2025

Help us shape the future of the Arts in LA County by being a panelist! is seeking panelists with a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and skills to serve on grant review panels and artist selection committees. If you are an artist, community member, arts administrator, educator or funder, your voice matters! Nominate yourself or someone you know by filling out a brief questionnaire at https://bit.ly/2saEznP

Please submit nominations by November 21, 2025 | 5PM (PST)

10/31/2025

TOMORROW at Kia Forum in Inglewood

🚗 Drive-Thru Food Distribution
Join the for a free food distribution event at The Kia Forum in Inglewood.

📅 Saturday, November 1, 2025
🕙 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
📍 3900 W Manchester Blvd (enter off Kareem Court)

No walk-ups. Drive-thru only.
Need more info? Call 211 for food assistance.

10/31/2025

New opportunity! is partnering with to launch the LA County Bloomberg Arts Internship Program (BAI), as part of our Creative Career Pathways for Youth initiative. LA County BAI provides funding for an 8-week PAID summer internship for rising public high school seniors, along with professional development, college preparation support, dedicated mentorship, and educational and cultural field trips.

For the LA County BAI program launch year (2026 grant cycle), all applicants are required to attend at least one application workshop…there’s one next week, on Wednesday, November 5, at 1:00PM.

Interested and eligible organizations should submit an application detailing their proposed internship projects, work plan, and an organizational budget. For more information on guidelines, application workshops, and more, visit our link in bio.

Deadline to apply is November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM (PST)

10/28/2025

We are proud to share “Poems of the Living: Los Angeles County Employee Healing through Creative Writing Anthology,” a collection of poems written by current employees.

Los Angeles County employees play a vital role in emergency response and community recovery. ”Poems of the Living” is a collection of poetry and creative writing focused on healing, connection, and shared resilience. The anthology transforms grief into strength, personal stories into communal understanding, and creativity into a form of hope. Inspired by Octavia Butler’s belief in change, the poems emphasize moving forward with compassion, creativity, and connection.

”Poems of the Living” is a project of LA County Creative Strategist christy roberts berkowitz , as part of her residency with the Department of Human Resources . The poems and essays were developed in workshops designed to help LA County employees, regardless of writing experience, process the emotional impact of the January 2025 wildfires. christy’s residency and this project support the Countywide Cultural Policy, which was enacted to foster an organizational culture that values and celebrates arts, culture, and creativity.

📚 Check out a copy of “Poems of Living” at any of the 85 library branches in the system or visit https://bit.ly/4oFjVTs for the high-resolution PDF. 📚

Graphic and book design by Carolina Ibarra-Mendoza .m.carolina. The LA County Creative Strategist-Artist in Residence program is administered by .

📸: The Manhattan Beach Library copy of “Poems of the Living

10/24/2025

Celebrate Dia de los Mu***os in LA County! Check out these 9 events:
Gloria Molina Grand Park October 25-Novembver 2, Daily, 8am-9pm
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Esperanza Community Housing Sunday, October 26, 12pm-5pm
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Broadway West .west Sunday, November 2, 4pm-10pm
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City of San Gabriel Friday, November 7, 5:30pm-8:00pm
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Downtown San Pedro October 26, 3-9:30pm
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Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural events and workshops October 9- November 1
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Las Fotos Project Sunday, October 26, 3-6pm
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Museum of Latin America Art .art Sunday, October 26, 11am-5pm (NEED PHOTO)
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Cal State Northridge Art Galleries Saturday, November 1, 3p
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📷 : Gloria Molina Grand Park (Mayra Beltran Vasquez/)

10/21/2025

We are pleased to announce that Tara L. Taylor has been appointed by to the LA County Arts Commission! Tara is a lifelong supporter and champion of the arts as a classically trained dancer and a former board member of a number of arts culture organizations across LA.

Tara is a co-founder of SEED Collaborative, where she currently leads the economic development practice. Tara received her Bachelor’s in History and African Studies from Wellesley College and her Master’s in Urban Planning from UCLA.

We are excited for Tara to bring her deep experience working with multicultural institutions to the Commission, helping to create systems where all voices are uplifted and acknowledged. Tara will be representing LA County’s Second District where she has lived for almost 30 years.

Congratulations Tara!

For more about the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, please visit our link in bio or our website here: www.lacountyarts.org/about/arts-commission/la-county-arts-commission. Public meetings are held monthly in person at the Hall of Administration in Downtown LA or by virtual access as posted on the meeting agenda. General public is welcome to attend, view online or submit public comment.