Call for Members: Arts Ed Collective Leadership Circle
The Department of Arts and Culture seeks members to join a leadership advisory body, Leadership Circle, to inform the work of the Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective, a county-wide collective impact initiative that helps ensure every young person in LA County grows up with the arts.
Applications are due by Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | 5PM (PDT)
Since 2002, the LA County Department of Arts and Culture has coordinated the Arts Ed Collective initiative. Strategic directions for the LA County Arts Ed Collective initiative are outlined in the "Arts for All Children, Youth, and Families: LA County’s Regional Blueprint for Arts Education” (Arts Ed Blueprint), adopted by the LA County Board of Supervisors in 2020. The Arts Ed Blueprint provides entry points for collective work that advance the arts as fundamental to child and youth development and envisions a growing network of stakeholders working together to build capacity within and across the field, and to advance policy change in ways that benefit all youth in Los Angeles County, particularly young people and communities that have been marginalized by intersecting systems of oppression and inequity.
Advancement of the initiatives’ strategic directions is informed by the Leadership Council [to be reestablished as the Leadership Circle] and Funders Council. With the goal of activating diverse, cross- sector leadership, in spring 2023 Arts and Culture convened community partners as a Leadership Circle Design Working Group to re-imagine the role and structure of a leadership body for the Arts Ed Collective.
- The working group offered an initial outline for the Leadership Circle, including a draft Mission, Vision and Values (below) to guide its work.
- The Leadership Circle will be comprised of individuals who are passionate about the arts and whose leadership, work, and social justice advocacy support goals of equity in arts education and arts-based youth development.
- Leadership Circle members will represent perspectives and experiences from across the arts education and arts-based youth development ecosystems.