24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
661.255.1050
CAP Partners
Arroyo Seco Junior High Shool
Arroyo Seco Junior High School is a public middle school that is part of Wiliam S. Hart School District in the Santa Clarita Valley. The school has been recognized as a California Distinguished School and a National Blue Ribbon School.
Arroyo Seco Junior High School
Rhondi Durand, Principal
Juliet Fine, Classroom Teacher
27171 North Vista Delgado Drive Valencia CA 91354
tel 661.296.0991 fax 661.296.3436
Art-in-the-Park
Art-in-the-Park is a community-based arts organization in Northeast Los Angeles, which consists of the Lalo Guerrero School of Music, the Satellite Learning Program, the on-site art classes, and community festivals. The organization provides the community with the opportunity to learn about world culture, art and music.
The Lalo Guerrero School of Music was founded in 2001 and was dedicated to the legendary Lalo Guerrero known as the father of Chicano Music. It offers students 18 and under with the opportunity to learn how to play guitar, drums and other Latin percussion instruments with the understanding of music theory and history. Students learn under the direction of talented local musicians who are excited about teaching a new generation of music students. In partnership with the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the Lalo Guerrero School of Music offers free music classes to students who would not be able to otherwise experience the joy of playing music. Students also present their work at Art-in-the-Park’s annual Corn Festival and Day of the Dead Festival, which are each attended by at least 2000 people.
Art-in-the-Park
Berta Sosa, Director
Roxanna Trotter, Assistant Director
Arroyo Seco Park 5568 Via Marisol Los Angeles CA 90042
tel 323.259.0861 fax 323.369.2476
Banning’s Landing Community Center
Banning’s Landing Community Center is a division of the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles operated in partnership with the Friends of Banning’s Landing. The center provides a complex capable of meeting a diversity of community needs and providing a nucleus for comprehensive programs of high quality arts and educational services, including a dance studio, multi-purpose auditorium, classrooms, and exhibition space. Established in 2001, the center accommodates workshops, conferences, special events, public meetings and a wealth of other activities designed to meet the needs of the community of Wilmington and the City at large.
Banning’s Landing Community Center
Lee Sweet, Director
Lisette Garibay, Administrative Assistant
100 E. Water Street Wilmington CA 90744
tel 310.522.2015 fax 310.522.2003
cadharborarts@earthlink.net
www.wilmington-chamber.com/banlndct.htm
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
CalArts is a private, fully accredited arts college offering BFA and MFA degrees as well as undergraduate and graduate certificates. In 1961, CalArts was incorporated as the first degree-granting institution in the United States for students of both the visual and performing arts. It was established through the vision and generosity of Walt Disney, and the merger of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (founded in 1883) and Chouinard Art Institute (founded in 1921). At the Institute, all of the arts – dance, film/video, music, theatre, writing and the visual arts – are under one roof, challenging and informing each other, giving rise to new interdisciplinary forms. More than 1,200 superbly talented young artists – representing all 50 states and 28 foreign countries – study with a faculty of professional artists in programs that stress both self discipline and creative expression. In 1990, CalArts began the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) to link the college with community-based arts organizations in Los Angeles and provide imaginative college-level arts training to thousands of teenagers each year. The Santa Clarita Valley Arts Partnership began in 1994 to create arts programs for teenagers from neighborhoods near the college.
California Insitute of the Arts
Steven Lavine, President
24700 McBean Parkway Santa Clarita CA 91355
tel 661.222.2708 fax 661.222.2726
www.calarts.edu
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock is dedicated to providing multicultural arts programming in the form of classes, concerts, visual art exhibitions, dance performances, workshops, and festivals for the Eagle Rock and Northeast Los Angeles communities. The center also serves as a meeting and rehearsal space for many local arts, cultural, and historical organizations. The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock was created by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department in March of 1997. The facility is housed in a former Carnegie Library built in 1915. The center includes exhibition, performance and workshop space and presents high-quality contemporary and historical exhibitions free-of-charge. Hundreds of children in the community participate in low-cost art, music, dance and theater classes at the center. The center also hosts an annual celebration of the Aztec New Year that includes an art exhibition, Aztec dancers, art and craft vendors, a free family arts workshop, and pre-Columbian style live music. The gallery and exhibition space is offered free-of-charge to many cultural arts organizations.
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Julia Salazar, Executive Director
2225 Colorado Blvd Eagle Rock CA 90041
tel 323.226.1617 fax 323.226.0949
www.centerartseaglerock.org
City of Santa Clarita, Arts and Events Department
The City of Santa Clarita’s Arts & Events Department is dedicated to enhancing arts education opportunities for every student in the Santa Clarita Valley. The office works in cooperation with the Arts Education Committee (formed by the Arts Advisory Committee), local schools, the California Institute of the Arts, and the L.A. County Arts Commission to identify the best ways to achieve this goal.
City of Santa Clarita, Arts and Events Department
Donna Avila, Events Program Coordinator
23920 Valencia Blvd., Suite 120 Santa Clarita CA 91355
tel 661.286.4145 fax 661.255.1996
www.santa-clarita.com/arts/ArtsEd/index.asp
Franklin High School
First established in 1916 with an enrollment of 225 students, the school currently educates approximately 3,500 students within the facility. Its buildings can be found on both sides of Avenue 54, in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park. This high school, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), it is a large school compared to others in the district.
Franklin High School
Luis Lopez, Principal
820 North Avenue 54 Los Angeles CA 90042
tel 323.550.2000
Gertz-Ressler High School / The Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools
The mission of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, a nonprofit charter management organization, is to open and operate a network of excellent small high-performing 9-12 and 6-8 public schools in historically underachieving, low income, overcrowded communities in Los Angeles that will significantly outperform other public schools in preparing students to enter and succeed in college.The Gertz-Ressler High School is located in the Frank E. Baxter Education Complex in the Pico-Union community of Los Angeles. The Complex is also home to the Richard Merkin Middle School, as well as the Alliance headquarters.
Gertz-Ressler High School
Howard Lappin, Principal
2023 S. Union Avenue
Los Angeles 90007-1326
tel 213.745.8141 fax 213.745.8142
Inner-City Arts
Inner-City Arts was established in 1989 as a non-profit art center providing ethnically diverse youth with positive experiences through the arts. Inner-City Arts is the only program in Los Angeles that brings children into an art studio environment, working in conjunction with the Los Angeles Unified School District during the regular school day, to build self-esteem and provide enriching experiences in the arts which lead to increased self-confidence, creativity, and academic success. In September of 1994, Inner-City Arts moved into a newly renovated 8,000 square foot building that has enabled them to increase their programs and serve all of the youth in their target community. Inner-City Arts offers classes in dance, theatre, music, visual arts, language arts, ceramics and animation.
Inner-City Arts
Cynthia Harnisch, Executive Director
Bob Bates, Artistic Director
Beth Tishler, Education Director
720 Kohler Street Los Angeles CA 90021
tel 213.627.9621 fax 213.627.6469
www.inner-cityarts.org
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS)
Founded in 1974, the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies is an artist-run organization dedicated to presenting and encouraging diverse, innovative and challenging work by emerging and established photographic artists. Through its exhibitions, installations, lecture series, workshops and publications, LACPS seeks to expand the definitions of photography, integrate photographic practice into a larger context of visual media and cultural representation, develop a broad audience for the medium and remain a resource for artists in the community. Located in Los Angeles, LACPS organizes exhibition, publications and youth programs.
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
John Bache President & Acting Executive Director
3034 Angus Street LA CA 90039
tel 323.669.1897 fax 818.727.0964
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
As the nation’s second largest school district, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) serves more than 730,000 students. The District, which encompasses the city of Los Angeles and several neighboring cities, serves a diverse and culturally rich student population. The LAUSD believes that teachers are shapers of the future. The District is committed to education reform and innovative instructional programs that are aligned to state standards. LAUSD includes over 790 schools and year-round and traditional school year calendars.
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
333 South Beaudry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90017
tel 213.241.1000 fax 213.241.8442
www.lausd.k12.ca.us
My Friend’s Place
My Friend's Place is a center in Hollywood dedicated to assisting and inspiring homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives. The center offers homeless youth a refuge from the streets and meaningful crisis intervention. With a framework of stability, structure, and positive mentoring, homeless youth can improve self-esteem, increase pro-social behavior and acquire the skills necessary to become self-sufficient. Individualized case management is conducted through three programmatic areas: 1) the Life Essentials Program meets emergency needs such as food and clothing and provides shelter and transportation referrals; 2) the Independent Living Skills Program offers workshops and individual counseling in Education, Employment, Creative Arts, and Life Skills; 3) the Healthy Friends Program provides clinically and culturally appropriate medical, health, and mental health services addressing issues such as HIV/AIDS, addiction and recovery, proper health care, parenting, and mental health disorders. My Friend's Place offers a safe haven and programs where homeless youth can share their experiences with peers, adult role models, and clinical professionals, and build the confidence and skills necessary to pursue a more stable, self-sufficient life.
My Friend’s Place
Shawn Ingram, Executive Director
Heather Carmichael, Clinical Director
Camilla Brannstrom, Special Projects
5850 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood CA 90028
tel 323.908.0011 fax 323.468.1243
www.myfriendsplace.com
Plaza de la Raza
Plaza de la Raza School of Performing and Visual Arts has provided educational and cultural programs in the arts for thirty years. It is recognized nation-wide as one of a small number of exceptional programs devoted to the development of the artistic spirit in young people. As a cultural center for arts and education, Plaza de la Raza provides professional training in five major disciplines: Theatre Arts, Dance, Music, Visual Arts and Communication Arts. The conservatory program is designed to provide intermediate through advanced levels of instruction to talented students. Auditions are required to enter all performing arts classes and visual arts students must submit an example of their work. Located in Lincoln Park in East Los Angeles, the facilities at Plaza de la Raza include a gallery, black box theatre, dance studio, music building with rehearsal rooms, outdoor stage and an art studio.
Plaza de la Raza
Rose Marie Cano, Executive Director
Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
3540 N. Mission Road LA CA 90031
tel 323.223.2475 fax 323.223.1804
www.plazadelaraza.org
San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center
The San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center is part of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and is located in Pacoima in the heart of the Northeast San Fernando Valley. The center, located in the middle of the San Fernando Gardens Housing Project, offers job placement assistance for adults as well as after-school programs for children and youth. These free programs include educational opportunities, special events, field trips, social activities, job training and placement services, parenting classes, a resource center, literacy services, child care training classes and youth employment workshops for the families living in the housing project and the immediate surrounding community within a one mile radius.
San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center
Teresa de la Paz, Director
Consuelo Telfair, Community Case Manager
10896 Lehigh Ave Pacoima CA 91331
tel 818.834.9266 fax 818.896.3783
Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club
The Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley has a solid record of providing appropriate services and opportunities responsive to the needs of a diverse youth population – particularly those from socially and/or economically disadvantaged homes, single parent homes and latch-key situations. With a current membership of 1,050, the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley serves approximately 250 youths each day. The organization’s central facility is located in a city park between a senior high and a junior high school, with satellites in three other disadvantaged areas. The facilities include an art center, computer center, digital lab, learning center, game room and a gym.
Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club
Jim Ventress, Executive Director
24909 Newhall Avenue Newhall CA 91321
tel 661.254.2582 fax 661.254.3278
www.scvboysandgirlclub.org
Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra at College of the Canyons
The Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra, located on the campus College of the Canyons, involves close to one hundred teenagers and performs at various venues throughout the year. College of the Canyons, founded in 1969, is a comprehensive
public community college. The college provides opportunities in post-secondary education for students seeking associate degrees, transfer programs, technical / vocational programs, basic skills education, retraining opportunities and self-improvement courses and programs. The 154 acre campus, located adjacent to Interstate 5 just 35 miles north of Los Angeles, serves the rapidly growing community of Santa Clarita. The College has recently opened a brand new state of the art Library, media center and a Fine Arts building and a perfoming arts center.
Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra
Robert Lawson, Music Director, College of the Canyons
Paul Sherman, Associate Conductor and Adjunct Faculty, College of the Canyons
24655 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita CA 91355
tel 661.259.7800 x 3254 fax 661.259.8302
www.scvyo.org
Self-Help Graphics & Art
For the past 30 years, Self-Help Graphics & Art has been the leading visual arts institution serving the predominantly Chicano/Mexicano community of Los Angeles. In that time, Self-Help Graphics has achieved national acclaim for its programs and services which promote the contribution of Chicano art and culture to the American landscape. Located in the heart of East Los Angeles, and surrounded by a local population of over 2 million Chicanos/Mexicanos, Self-Help Graphics has been a vital community resource of cultural identity and pride, as well as center of art opportunity, training, and creativity. In all its activities, Self-Help has maintained its mission: (1)To foster and encourage the empowerment of local Chicano artists, (2)To present Chicano art to all audiences through its programs and services, and (3)To promote the rich cultural heritage and contribution of Chicano art and artists to the contemporary American experience.
Self-Help Graphics & Art
3802 Cesar Chavez Ave LA CA 90063-1896
tel 323.881.6444 fax 323.881.6447
www.selfhelpgraphics.com
Visual Communications
For over three decades, Visual Communications has been a pioneer in the development of Asian Pacific American film, video and media. Founded in 1970 by Asian American film school students, educators, artists and community activists, Visual Communications has evolved from its early days as a filmmaker’s cooperative into the preeminent media arts center dedicated to honest and accurate portrayals of Asian Pacific American peoples, communities and heritage through the media arts. Visual Communications utilizes the media arts to build inter-cultural understanding and a just and humane society through its comprehensive education, production, presentation/ exhibition, preservation and access programs. Visual Communications is located at the new Union Center for the Arts in Little Tokyo.
Visual Communications
Jeff Liu, Interim Executive Director
120 Judge John Aiso Street
Basement Level LA CA 90012
tel 213.680.4462 fax 213.687.4848
www.vconline.org
Watts Towers Arts Center
The Watts Towers Arts Center’s programs aim to develop an appreciation of Los Angeles’ varied social and cultural history through changing exhibits, tour dialogues, lectures, out/in studio workshops, performances, technical assistance to developing and practicing artists, and two annual heritage festivals. Located in Watts, adjacent to Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, which have been designated an historic landmark, the Watts Towers Arts Center has been providing cultural programs for the community since 1961. The Watts Towers Arts Center became a division of the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department in late 1975.
Watts Towers Arts Center
Rosie Lee Hooks, Director
Rogelio Acevedo, Education Coordinator
1727 E. 107th Street LA CA 90002
tel 213.485.1795 fax 323.564.7030
www.trywatts.com/art_center.htm
William S. Hart High School
William S. Hart High School is the oldest high school in the Santa Clarita Valley in California. The school has been educating students since 1946 and it is part of the William S. Hart High School School District
William S. Hart High School
Dr. Colvin Nielsen Principal
24825 Newhall Avenue Newhall CA 91321
tel 661.259.7575 fax 661.254.6436
William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center
The William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center is housed in a 4,750 square foot building just north of MacArthur Park. The center includes a 2,000 square foot multi-purpose space, functioning as a 99-seat theater, an exhibition gallery, a dance studio, and an event hall. The center also includes a photography lab and a computer room. The William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center has been operated by Grupo de Teatro SINERGIA since 1997, providing the West Lake community with professional performing arts presentations, arts classes for children and adults, a weekly open-mike series, a monthly play reading program and the only community photography lab in the Los Angeles area. The Grupo de Teatro SINERGIA was created to serve the Latino community through providing performances in Spanish and English, offering arts workshops, promoting a greater understanding of Latino culture, and creating a cultural center that embraces all Latino arts and traditions.
WIlliam Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center
Ruben Amavizca Director
2332 W. Fourth Street LA CA 90057
tel 213.382.8133