The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (Arts and Culture) is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a contract with an individual artist or artist team to serve as an Artist-in-Residence with the Vision Zero Los Angeles County initiative.

During this two-year residency, artist/artist team will provide the following as part of the Safe Streets and Roads for All FY22 – Florence Firestone Project (SS4A Project), to support the implementation of the Vision Zero Action Plan in the unincorporated County community of Florence-Firestone:

• Arts-based, healing-informed community engagement around strategies for safer streets; and
• Community-engaged temporary and/or permanent artworks as site interventions to enhance pedestrian safety, visibility, cultural equity, beautification, and spatial justice.

Programmatic activities to meet the following goals may include but are not limited to artistic interventions; artist-led and community-informed projects, workshops, and events; community engagement and participation; the identification or mapping of cultural and community assets; and design development, fabrication, and installation of temporary or permanent artworks:

• Build awareness of and support for Vision Zero and traffic safety generally, either in coordination with or in complement to infrastructure improvements; and
• Complement and enhance Public Health’s Vision Zero traffic safety education and programmatic activities.

Adopted in 2020 by the Board of Supervisors, the Vision Zero Los Angeles County: A Plan for Safer Roadways guides the County’s efforts on reducing traffic deaths and severe injuries on unincorporated County roadways. It sets goals and actions to enhance traffic safety in collaboration with agencies and community partners.

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