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Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture fosters excellence, diversity, vitality, understanding, and accessibility of the arts in Los Angeles County and provides leadership in cultural services. In addition to coordinating the Arts Education Collective, a public-private partnership dedicated to making the arts a core component of public education for LA’s 1.5 million students, the Arts Commission funds nearly 400 nonprofit arts organizations, manages the County’s civic art policy, and funds the largest arts internship program in the country.

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Abcde Solarzano, A Way Out: a photograph from above of youth standing in a circle with fists together to form a circle of hands Tia Reed, Art is Our Future: a drawing of youth in a group, each in a different form of performance, including painting, music and photography, with a central figure extending an open hand to youth watching below Mayah Aguilera, May We Be One: a colored pencil drawing of a woman turning into a tree in a forest Danielle Galván Gomez, Creative Wellbeing Curriculum Guide: illustrated suicide prevention panels featuring illustrations of birds in a nest caring for each other; additional illustrations from the guide offering wellbeing principles

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

Commissioned 20th Anniversary Artworks
2022
Rocket Garcia, I’m Struggling: photographs of the artist wearing expressive paint and different facial expressions, in rows, and a central graphic of a clown on a tightrope across it Montana Madison, Satellitex: a painting of an abstract landscape in brown, green and black with shapes of satellites Jordahn Clarke, Inside My Own Head: a letter from the artist about the piece, a photograph of him in silhouette with images of books and a blue sky overlaid Enrique Corral, Starblood: a photograph of a youth overlaid with marbled green color against a green background Jonatan Cruz, Inside My Own Head: a letter from the artist about the piece, a photograph of him in side profile shadow with a photograph of him in a chair with headphones and a phone inside Jackie Juarez, Lonesome: an abstract painting of a head in profile against a blue sky background, with a tree growing in gray within the head Dania Calva, Unaided: a drawing of a head in profile with words including

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

Los Angles County Youth Commission Report on Mental Health
2022