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04/24/2013	Winners Recommended in UK Cultural Exchange Program ...
04/24/2013	The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) present the 2013 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships Visual Arts Exhibition Honoring a Spectrum of the City’s Most Creative Artists ...
4/23/2013	The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant upporting RADAR L.A. 2013 International Festival of Contemporary Theater ...
04/05/2013	The Barnsdall Junior Arts Center Gallery in association with the Barnsdall Art Center Student Advisory Committee, Inc. presents the Barnsdall Art Center 2013 Student Exhibition ...
03/28/2013	Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, the Los Angeles City Council, and Los Angeles Poet Laureate, Eloise Klein Healy Announce April 2013 as Literacy Month Celebrating The Big Read Program in LA ...
03/28/2013	LA Weekly Confers the Queen of the Angels Award for Special Achievement to Olga Garay-English, Executive Director of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs ...
01/11/2013	The Barnsdall Junior Arts Center Gallery, in association with the Barnsdall Art Center Student Advisory Committee, Inc., Presents Joan Kleihauer: A Retrospective Exhibition ...
09/27/2012	France Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Present Major Exhibition of International Contemparary and Modern Art ...LOST (in LA) . at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park December 1, 2012 to January 27, 2013 .Exhibiton Inspired by Hit Television Series Provides an Innovative Dialogue Between Los Angeles and France
09/20/2012	The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs presents Dragon's Flight Exhibit, Concert, and Resource Fair at The William Grant Still Arts Center
09/19/2012	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Friends of Watts Towers Arts Center present the 31st Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival Saturday, September 29, 2012, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and the 36th Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival Sunday, September 30, 2012, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Watts Towers Arts Center Campus
08/24/2012	Mayor Villaraigosa Announces Creation of City's First Poet Laureate Program
08/24/2012	Los Angeles City Council Approves a $1,225,000 Contract between the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the California Institute of the Arts for the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program Sony Pictures Entertainment Continues as Founding Partner and Funder
08/24/2012	BAILA con Duende: Group Art Exhibition at the Watts Towers and Arts Center and Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center Campus September 9, 2012 to January 6, 2013
08/24/2012	The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Los Angeles Municipal Arts Gallery present the 2012 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships Visual Arts Exhibition Honoring a Spectrum of the City's Most Creative Artists
08/24/2012	Inagural Dates Announced for San Pedro International Film Festival October 12 to 14, 2012
08/24/2012	Los Angeles Director of Cultural Affairs Honored for Contribution to Arts Community
08/23/2013	France Confers the Award of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on Olga Garay-English City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Executive Director
07/09/2012	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Open Call 2012 (Small Works)
06/12/2012	Broadway Arts Center to Become Centerpiece of New Broadway Cultural Quarter Thanks to Artplace Grant Artplace releases 47 grants supporting creative placemaking initiatives in 33 communities nationwide
06/12/2012	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Conversation with the Artists as part of the Los Angeles Artists Fellowship Laboratory Exhibition
06/08/2012	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Prestigious 2012 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships Featuring Visual, Performing, and Literary Artists
06/08/2012	African American / Chinese American Panel Discussion Culminates the 4th year of the Big Read/Literacy Month Project for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
05/30/2012	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Los Angeles Artists Fellowship Laboratory Exhibition Featuring Visual, Literary, and Performing Artists
05/11/2012	Technology and Art Unite at LAX with Groundbreaking Video Installation See Change
03/08/2012	The Hammer Museum and LA><ART Announce Artists for Made IN L.A. 2012 Los Angeles biennal will feature sixty emerging and under-recognized artists
01/26/2012	1-26-12 Finalists Named for $15 Million in creative Placemaking Grants
12/09/2011	The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Opening Receptions for its Pacific Standard Time Dual-Venue Exhibition Civic Virtue: The impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center
11/04/2011	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Cultural Exchange International Fellowship Program
11/04/2011	Producers of Jazz Documentary partner with DCA's Music LA Program and Berklee College of Music to Host Youth Jazz Clinic for 50 Los Angeles Area Students ............................................. Berklee's Hailey Niswanger Quartet to Lead the Clinic on Friday, November 11, 2011
11/04/2011	The Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro Announces a Packed Calendar of Events for November and December 2011
10/27/2011	American Indian Heritage Month to Honor Native American Indian Commission's 35th Anniversary
09/27/2011	The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs presents Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center
09/16/2011	Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum and Jazz Festivals A Free Arts Weekend
09/14/2011	Latino Heritage Month Opening Ceremonies Honor Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan, Dodger Great Fernando Valenzuela, and Educator Activist Sal Castro
08/10/2011	Multi-Agency Collaboration Unveils Online Survey of LA's Creative Community on August 15, 2011 to Determine Affordable Space Needs for Area Artists, Arts-Related Business, and Others
07/28/2011	L.A. Arts Sector Leading By Example ............................................................................................................ .A Ground-Breaking Private / Public Partnership Spurs Sustainable Changes in America's Second Largest City
07/12/2011	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Awarded $250,000 Our Town Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for Design of Watts Historic Train Station Visitors Center and Artist Pathways Project is One of 51 Grants Nationwide Selected to Support Creative Placemaking
05/26/2011	The William Grant Still Arts Center and The Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Project present IMAGES: Iconic, Insurgent, Divine, and Decadent Glimpses Into the Lives of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and their Significant Others in Los Angeles 1940 to the Present
05/26/2011	BLK Publisher Alan Bell to Speak on Remembering Our History
05/06/2011	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Prestigious 2011 Lorser and Helen Lundenberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship Award
04/29/2011	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Prestigious 2011 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships
04/19/2011	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Begins Restoration Work at Hollyhock House
04/19/2011	In Celebration of Ozomatli Day 2011 The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Presents "Songs of the LA River Project
04/192011	The Big Read Program Announces the Chinese American / African American Symposium "Perpetuation of the Model Minority, Stereotypes and Myths"
03/23/2011	Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council Announce April 2011 as "Literacy Month" and "The Big Read Month in Los Angeles"
03/21/2011	Mayor Releases Statement in Support of Department of Cultural Affairs
03/08/2011	The Walt Disney Company, The Office of Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, The Los Angeles City Council, and The Department of Cultural Affairs Present The American Indian Heritage Month Music LA Student Culminating Concert at The Madrid Theatre on March 16, 2011
02/10/2011	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces New Exhibition Talking Pictures by Cambridge Jones at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
02/03/2011	Department of Cultural Affairs New Exhibit Framing Abstraction:Mark, Symbol, Signifier at Municipal Art Gallery
02/01/2011	DCA Kicks Off Free Music Class Registration for Youth at The New Lincoln Heights Junior Arts Center Grand Opening
12/28/2011	Department of Cultural Affairs Announce 2010-2011 Winter Sessions at Barnsdall Park Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Center, Canoga Park Youth Arts Center, and Sun Valley Youth Arts Center
10/28/2010	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces 2011-2012 Guidelines for Cultural Exchange International Fellowship Program
10/21/2010	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and LACMA Announce Partnership to Preserve Historic Watts Towers__Department of Cultural Affairs Joins Forces with LACMA to Protect the Towers, Raise Their Profile, and Encourage Further Support
10/13/2010	Municipal Art Gallery to Showcase Three Exhibitions: Sculture, Decorative Applications, and Ara Oshagan - Father Land
09/14/2010	29th Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival and 34th Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival Featuring an Impressive Line-Up with Headliner, Jazz Great, RANDY WESTON
08/19/2010	DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS FOR THE 2010 LOS ANGELES JURIED EXHIBITION
08/09/2010	CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS WILL HOST THE AMAZING NEUTRA'S IN ORANGE COUNTY
07/19/2010	BROADWAY ARTS CENTER PROJECT AWARDED $100,000 PLANNING GRANT FROM NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
07/15/2010	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces 2011-2012 Guidelines for Non-Profit Arts Organizations & Outdoor Festivals/Parades
07/13/2010	Department of Cultural Afairs Announces Prestigious 2010 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition
03/09/2010	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Final Round of the Cultural Exchange International Pilot Program
03/05/2010	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Prestigious C.O.L.A. 2010 Individual Artist Fellowships Featuring Visual, Performance, and Literary Artists
03/04/2010	Councilmember Bernard parks Will Announce March 2010 as "Los Angeles Big Read Month"
01/25/2010	L.A. and its Artists featured in over 10 Institutions across Madrid during ARCOmadrid_2010's Panorama: Los Angeles Sponsored by L.A.'s Department of Cultural Affairs
01/22/2010	Panorama: Los Angeles ARCOmadrid 2010
10/29/09	Los Angeles Printmaking Society 20th National Exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery
10/08/09	Federal Stimulus Funds to Preserve Jobs in the Arts in Los Angeles Awarded to 16 Arts Organizations
09/23/09	Watts Towers Arts Center announces the 28th Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival and the 33rd Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival
07/14/09	Federal Stimulus Funds Available to Preserve Jobs in the Arts in Los Angeles - General Media Version
07/14/09	Federal Stimulus Funds Available to Preserve Jobs in the Arts in Los Angeles - Arts Media Version
06/23/09	The National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Announce Authors and Artists for Guadalajara International Book Fair
05/20/09	DCA Announces Second Application Process For New Cultural Exchange Exchange International Pilot program
05/07/09	DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANNOUNCES PRESTIGIOUS C.O.L.A. 2009 INDIVIDUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS, EXHIBITION, PERFORMANCES, AND EVENTS
04/09/09	The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs presents The Charles Mingus – Son of Watts – Musical Caravan Project - Part II Celebrating the Life and Work of Charles Mingus
02/11/09	Awaji Puppet Theater Company Performances at REDCAT Co-presented with City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
02/03/09	Municipal Art Gallery to Showcase Three Exhibitions: From There to Here: Contemporary Southern California Artists From Israel, Whim Wham, And Edward Biberman Revisited
01/06/09	Mayor Villaraigosa, Arts Leaders Launch First Annual ‘LA Arts Month’
01/05/09	2009 Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House Spring Evening Docent Training Session
11/07/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Cultural Exchange International Pilot Program
11/05/08	Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and Department of Cultural Affairs Present the Big Read Program in Los Angeles
10/23/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Receives Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to Read and Celebrate The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett during THE BIG READ Program in Los Angeles
10/23/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Patterns and Rhythms at Municipal Art Gallery
10/17/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Cultural Master Plan Community Meetings
10/16/08	Día De Los Muertos Family Art Festival at the Canoga Park Youth Arts Center
10/16/08	Department of Cultural Affairs New Art Exhibit with Special Events DIGITALEYES 2008: New Esthetic Dimensions in Computer Visualization Technology Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
09/19/08	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Presents the Mingus Big Band Concerts as Part of the Charles Mingus - Son of Watts - Musical Caravan Project
09/19/08	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Presents Day of the Drum and Jazz Festivals and Grand Opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center
09/19/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Grand Opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center
08/21/08	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Announces Engagement of Cultural Master Plan Consultants
08/11/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Presents Hollyhock House Speaker Series at Barnsdall Park
07/03/08	Golden Performing Arts Center Presents Sweet Charity at the Madrid Theatre
06/05/08	Department Of Cultural Affairs Presents LA River Paintings And Photographs at the City Hall Bridge Gallery
05/20/08	Summer 2008 Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House Docent Training Program
05/20/08	Department of Cultural Affairs and United Nations Environment Programme Join to Celebrate World Environment Day
04/16/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces C.O.L.A. 2008 Individual Artist Fellowships Featuring Visual, Performance, and Literary Artists
03/13/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces A Special Two-for-One Costume Event at San Pedro’s Warner Grand Theatre
03/12/08	The Walt Disney Company, the Office Of Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, and the Department Of Cultural Affairs Present the Music LA Student Concert at the Autry National Center on March 16, 2008
03/12/08	Ebony Repertory Theatre Presents An Intimate Evening Of Dance, Demonstration And Dialogue with Complexions Contemporary Ballet at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
03/04/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Presents Tapestries Of America Downtowns, Los Angeles at the City Hall Bridge Gallery
02/28/08	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces A Special Added Event for the 2008 African American Heritage Month Celebration at San Pedro’s Warner Grand Theatre
02/06/08	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Zócalo “Public Square” Lecture Series Announce a Conversation with Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
01/22/08	Department Of Cultural Affairs Presents Spirits Of L.A. at Municipal Art Gallery
01/22/08	Department Of Cultural Affairs Presents Tropics: A Contemporary View Of Brazil, Cuba, And Haiti at Municipal Art Gallery
01/16/08	The William Grant Still Arts Center Presents 100 Years Of Service, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Story Centennial Traveling Exhibit
01/16/08	The Nate Holden Performing Arts Center Presents the State Of Dance In South LA Symposium/Dance Conference
12/12/07	Department Of Cultural Affairs Presents Blooms! at the City Hall Bridge Gallery
09/28/07	DCA’s Watts Towers Arts Center announces Outstanding Performers for the 26th Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival and the 31st Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival
08/31/07	Abstract and Literal Meet at the Fold in Koreatown
08/30/07	Department of Cultural Affairs Presents humor us at Municipal Art Gallery
05/25/07	City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Issues Open Call to Artists
05/03/07	Hollyhock House Declared National Historic Landmark
04/06/07	William Grant Still Presents: Women around the World A Photographic Exhibit Celebrating Women
04/05/07	Department of Cultural Affairs Announces: COLA 2007 Individual Artist Fellowships
03/30/07	Municipal Art Gallery Presents: Earthquakes & Aftershocks
03/30/07	Department of Cultural Affairs Works with Fox Entertainment Group and the Hammer Museum to tranferform Arts Development Fee into Unique Learning Opportunity for Fox Employees
03/16/07	Watts Towers Arts Center Presents: Spirits of the Ancestors: A Continuum Featuring S. Pearl Sharp and the Nate Morgan Ensemble
03/08/07	Junior Arts Center Presents: EcoArt
02/20/07	William Grant Still Arts Center Presents: Fusion
02/01/07	DCA Posts RFP for Madrid Theatre
01/11/07	Spring 2007 Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House Docent Training Program
01/10/07	DCA to program the Madrid Theatre in Canoga Park beginning February 2007
01/09/07	Multiple Vantage Points, A Survey of Southern California Women Artists, at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
11/20/06	Nancy Macko in First Solo Exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
11/02/06	2006 Art Matters Conference Official Exhibition Movement: Hip Hop in L.A. - 1980s to Now
10/26/06	Macy Gray and Xzbit to Speak at 2006 Art Matters Conference
10/17/06	Corina Villaraigosa to speak at DCA's 2006 Art Matters Conference
10/03/06	Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and the Department of Cultural Affairs Invite You to Listen to Hear in L.A.
09/20/06	Watts Towers Festivals
09/13/06	2006-2007 C.O.L.A. Award Winners Announced
09/08/06	Individual Artist Grant Guidelines Available
08/28/06	Julius Shulman Silent Auction Extended
08/25/06	Tijuana Crude, Politick, After Paradise: Clayton Campbell Opening September 16, 2006
08/21/06	Docent Training Program at Hollyhock House
05/31/06	Julius Shulman Photographs at Hollyhock House
03/08/06	Music LA! Day Festival & Instrument Drive
03/07/06	Art Exhibition at Hollyhock House: Folding Screens: An Architectural Art
03/03/06	World Premiere Opera The Tree presented downtown in association with the DCA
02/16/06	DCA Grantee Barbara H. Clark Awarded as Unsung Hero of the Year by KCET
02/10/06	2006 C.O.L.A Individual Artist Fellowships Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary
02/09/06	Cusack Prints Benefit Hollyhock House
01/31/06	Dreaming Our Future Youth Conference: Opportunity for Los Angeles Teens
01/18/06	Docents Needed to Conduct Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's Re-Opened Hollyhock House

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