Session 2: William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' This arts education professional development series is designed for secondary teachers, arts coordinators, secondary administrators, and assistant superintendents. The workshops frame the importance of the arts to engage and maximize student learning.

A poetry reading by famed minimalist poet Aram Saroyan to commemorate an addition to the county collection, which includes five of his poems, engraved in concrete throughout the park. Joining Saroyan are celebrated Los Angeles poets Holly Prado, harry Northup, Phoebe MacAdams, and Michael C. Ford.

Willowbrook Library celebrates abstract art in this unique collection with the Los Angeles County Art Commission’s Civic Art Program. Each piece selected for the library develops a language through design, pigment, and form to be translated and responded to by the viewer. Interpreted like the written texts in the library, these works offer themselves as artifacts without representational imagery that hold culturally specific and personal narratives, as well as common stories of human understanding. Join Dr.

The 2018 gathering of LA County Arts Interns in Little Tokyo! Throughout the day interns will get glimpses into the culture of this historic area as well as take part in interactive workshops exploring what it means to be an intern and what might be in store for them (and for the arts in Los Angeles). LA County is the most populous county in the United States with more than 10 million residents. It boasts the largest concentration of people engaged in creative industries—in fact, the creative industries are its sixth largest employer!

An outdoor photo installation and online, Story map Tour celebrating the people who work along Littlerock's Pearblossom highway.

The County’s Civic Art Policy dedicates 1% of capital project funds to create civic art at County’s facilities. Through the renovation and expansion of the Martin Luther King Medical Campus, the County has invested over $1.5 million to create civic art in and around this campus because we all believe healthy people and healthy communities are fostered through art.

A tour of the Golden State Mutual collection exhibit led by Dr. Jill Moniz.

In June 2017 the Board of Supervisors approved funding for five recommendations included in the Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative report. At this time the Board of Supervisors directed the Arts Commission to maintain a CEII Advisory Committee as a standing committee of the Arts Commission. This is the first meeting of the newly selected Advisory Committee.

As LA County works to find sustainable solutions to the humanitarian crisis of homelessness, the role of the Arts Commission has been to catalyze the community of architects, designers, planners, and creative strategists to reimagine the potential of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU’s) as a housing typology that works in conjunction with other strategies to help alleviate LA County’s housing pressure.

A panel discussion on the topics of innovative solutions to building ADUs, present building codes, current designs as well as engineering and construction best practices. Facilitated by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design