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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Young Musicians Foundation | Music |
Since our founding in 1955, the Young Musicians Foundation has striven to provide access to high-quality musical education to youth, regardless of economic or cultural background. |
Artist, Field Trip, Performance, Residency, School Administrator, Teacher, Workshop |
Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum | Music, Theater |
For over 40 years, Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum has provided professional Repertory performances of Shakespeare and other plays in its beautiful outdoor amphitheatre in Topanga Cyn. Education |
Field Trip, Performance, Residency, Workshop, Artist, Teacher, School Administrator |
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Dance, Theater, Music |
Arts learning is integral to all that we do at The Wallis: connecting audiences with the very best in the performing arts; using the power of the arts to build community and address pressing social |
Field Trip, Performance, Residency, Workshop, Teacher |
UniverSOUL Hip Hop | Dance |
Education, Empowerment, and Excellence through Hip Hop dance, culture, and practice. |
Performance, Workshop, Residency, Teacher, Artist |
Theatre of Hearts | Dance, Media, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First (TOHYF) connects professional artists with at-risk and underserved youth to prevent and intervene in youth violence by involving youngsters (grades Pre-K-12) in high |
Field Trip, Performance, Residency, Workshop, School Administrator, Teacher |
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company | Theater |
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company works deeply to empower the hardest to reach communities to tell their stories together. This collaboration leads to a sense of belonging and the building of |
Field Trip, Performance, Residency, Workshop, Artist, Teacher, School Administrator |
The L.A. Troupe, Theatre-in-Education | Theater |
The L.A Troupe, Theatre-in-Education is a classical theatre company touring to schools throughout southern California with assembly style productions, residencies, and workshops. |
Performance, Workshop, Residency, Teacher |
Symphonic Jazz Orchestra | Music |
We bring dynamic music programs into underserved schools and gather exceptional musicians together to perform free concerts for the community. |
Performance, Workshop, Residency |
Southland Sings | Music, Theater |
Southland Sings offers their workshop residency Poetry to Song where the students are the composers, librettists, directors and performers of their own original musicals. |
Residency, Workshop, Teacher |
SODE School of Performing Arts | Dance, Visual Arts, Music, Theater |
SODE School of Performing Arts prides itself on offering unique in-school performing arts enrichment programs in English and in French, that allows artists to experience the performing arts |
Performance, Workshop, Residency, Teacher, Artist |
SLAM! Program Los Angeles | Music |
SLAM! mobilizes college volunteers to teach after-school music programs in underserved schools |
Residency |
Skirball Cultural Center | Dance, Media, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
The Skirball Cultural Center is a place of meeting guided by the Jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger and inspired by the American democratic ideals of freedom and equality. |
Field Trip, Performance, Residency, Workshop, School Administrator, Teacher |