Community Arts Educators

The LA County Arts Education Collective collaborates with community arts partners to offer students, educators and practitioners a range of learning opportunities. This directory provides a vetted listing of artists and arts organizations that offer professional development for educators or standards-based arts instruction for students in LA County. School district partnerships are self reported by community arts partners.
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Discipline | Description | Program Type |
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24th Street Theatre Company | Theater |
"24th STreet Theatre is the best theatre arts ed program ever!" 75,000 students and teachers |
Field Trip, Performance, Residency, Workshop, Teacher, School Administrator |
Alex Luu | Media, Theater |
MY OWN STORY Residency/THREE LIVES performance |
Performance, Workshop, Residency, School Administrator, Artist, Teacher |
AMAN Dance Educators | Dance |
The Aman Dance Educators offer folk dance & creative movement workshops and residencies that correspond to the California VAPA standards, as well as other subject areas including History/Social |
Residency, Workshop, Artist, Teacher |
Angels Gate Cultural Center | Dance, Media, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
A place of creative discovery, exploration and enlightenment. |
Field Trip, Workshop, Residency, Teacher, Artist |
AnimAction, Inc. | Media |
AnimAction is a media arts program that integrates with curriculum helping students create their own animation. |
Residency, Workshop, Artist, Teacher, School Administrator |
Armory Center for the Arts | Media, Theater, Visual Arts |
Armory Center for the Arts is a non-profit, donor supported, contemporary arts center that builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities. |
Field Trip, Performance, Residency, Workshop, Artist, Teacher, School Administrator |
artworxLA | Dance, Media, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
artworxLA (formerly The HeArt Project) is a non-profit organization combating the high school dropout crisis by creatively engaging alternative education high school students. |
Field Trip, Performance, School Administrator, Workshop, Artist, Teacher |
Beth Sussman | Music |
Beth Sussman uses music to engage students in a joyful way and connect to academic subjects including reading fluency, patterns, fractions and reading with expression in her workshops, residencies |
Performance, Workshop, Residency, School Administrator, Artist, Teacher |
CalArts Community Arts Partnership | Dance, Media, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Housed at the world-renowned California Institute of the Arts, the CalArts Community Arts Partnership provides tuition-free arts instruction in animation, dance, film, music, theater, photography |
Field Trip, Performance, Residency, Workshop, Teacher |
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles | Theater |
Center Theatre Group serves the diverse audiences of Los Angeles by producing and presenting theatre of the highest caliber, by nurturing new artists, by attracting new audiences, and by developing |
Field Trip, Workshop, Residency, School Administrator, Artist, Teacher |
Create Now, Inc. | Dance, Media, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Create Now gives youth-in-need opportunities to find their voices through arts mentoring and education. |
Field Trip, Performance, School Administrator, Workshop, Artist, Teacher |
Culture Shock Los Angeles | Dance |
Culture Shock LA is an urban dance collective who, through the power of music and dance, cultivates self-worth, dignity and respect for all people. |
Performance, Workshop, Residency |