Civic Art Collections Manager

Reporting to the Director of Civic Art and working as a member of a team, the Civic Art Collections Manager plays a vital role in the County as the keeper of all County artwork records and the lead on all issues relating to artwork maintenance, conservation and research. The Collections Manager will animate a growing civic art collection and develop new outreach strategies.

Learn more about this and the Civic Art Director position here:

http://www.lacountyarts.org/jobs.html

This post was submitted by Letitia Ivins.

Arts for All
Arts Education Roundtable

Engaging School Leadership to Advance Arts in Schools

Using Project Zero’s The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education, experience the exercises from Arts for All’s Leadership Fellows Program that changed school district leaders’ thinking about arts education.
Through collaboration with fellow attendees, explore how you can use similar strategies with your school partners to build their understanding and their support for arts education.
Conversations will be guided by Ira Toibin, former Superintendent of Palos Verdes Unified School District and Mark Slavkin, Vice President, Education, Music Center, who both served as co-facilitators of Arts for All’s Leadership Fellows Program.
When: Wednesday, June 1, 2011. 10:00am – 12:00pm
Where: Los Angeles County Arts Commission
1055 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA 90017

Established by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Arts for All is the dynamic, county-wide collaboration working to create vibrant classrooms, schools, communities and economies through the restoration of all arts disciplines into the core curriculum for each of our 1.7 million public K-12 students.

The Arts for All Arts Education Roundtable is a forum for arts education organizations, teaching artists, and advocates to raise issues pertinent to arts education, advance the work and knowledge of the field, network, and share best practices. Through the Roundtable, Arts for All supports the diverse network of community artists and arts organizations who partner with Los Angeles County schools to ensure all students experience a high quality arts education.

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1657667127/efbnen

This post was submitted by Krystal Boehlert.