OUR PARTNERS
artworxLA's program model is based on strong, mutually beneficial partnerships at every level.
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MAJOR FUNDERS
As a non-profit organization, artworxLA relies on funding from corporations, government agencies, individuals, private foundations, and school district contracts. artworxLA’s programs are made possible in part by the following major funders:
Government
California Arts Council
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
National Endowment for the Arts
Corporations
Anonymous
Capital Group Companies
Crest Real Estate
Hot Topic
The Kurt Geiger Kindness Foundation
I-Grace Company
Richard Holz, Inc.
KAA Design
Shawn Nelson Builders
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Special Group
US Bank Foundation
Foundations
Anonymous
The Herb Alpert Foundation
The Bob Barker Company Foundation
California Community Foundation
The Change Reaction
Crafting the Future
The Johnny Carson Foundation
The Carol and James Collins Foundation
The Dodson Family Foundation
Endeavor Education
Exploring the Arts
The Five Fund
Fox Family Foundation
The Getty Foundation
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
The Green Foundation
Mericos Foundation
One Voice
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
The Perenchio Foundation
The Peter and Mashka Plotkin Memorial Fund
The Rose Hills Foundation
The Stoller Family Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Fund
Snap Foundation
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund
The Weingart Foundation
In addition, artworxLA is a proud member of the Arts for Healing and Justice Network (AHJN), which provides peer support funds in addition to program support through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture’s Juvenile Justice initiative.
AND TO ALL OF THE INDIVIDUAL DONORS WHO MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
If you are interested in exploring the benefits of being an artworxLA donor and partnering with us in our mission, please contact Director of Community Partnerships Raúl Flores at raul@artworxla.org.
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schooL Partners
artworxLA has a weekly presence in 30 alternative high schools classrooms throughout Los Angeles County, from Chatsworth to Lynwood, Culver City to San Dimas. These classrooms are in Continuation and Community Day Schools, County Community Schools, and juvenile camps and halls. Every school has unique strengths and needs, and facilities can be as diverse as small campuses, buildings connected to a traditional comprehensive high school, storefronts, churches, and community centers. Click on the map for individual school sites, and artworxLA is thankful for the following district partners who welcome us every week: Culver City Unified School District, Los Angeles County Office of Education, Los Angeles Unified School District, Lynwood Unified School District, Pasadena Unified School District, and The Education Corps, a workforce learning charter of Inyo County Office of Education.
artworxLA is also a proud member of:
If you are interested in becoming a future artworxLA school partner, please contact Director of School and Teaching Artist Programs Fabrizio Flores at fabrizio@artworxla.org
2023/24 Cultural partNers
artworxLA is grateful for the in-kind support, resources, dialogue, curiosity about students’ lives, and true spirit of welcome that MOCA and the Hammer Museum bring to partnership. From professional development for artworxLA Teaching Artists to hosting culminating public presentations, it was a joy to collaborate with these important museums ensuring that the art of our time includes the voices of our youth.
The Hammer Museum at UCLA believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world. Led by Alice Kaufman, Specialist for K-12 & Community Audiences, and Assistant Educator Rachel Regalado, Hammer Museum staff focused this year’s partnership on the museum’s sixth iteration of the biennial exhibition, Made in L.A.: Acts of Living. Students asked the big question, “What is the relationship between art, community, and everyday life?” Following the charge of co-curator Diana Nawi to explore, “Why do you make art? Who is it for?,” students created works that foregrounded their lived experiences while drawing inspiration from the diverse backgrounds and practices of the 39 Los Angeles-based artists in the exhibition. The public presentation event invited participants to consider their own role in shaping the visual culture of Los Angeles while they met artists from the exhibition who are part of the artworxLA family—thank you to Maria Maea, Michael Alvarez, and Vincent Hernández for engaging our students.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), is the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. In addition to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, MOCA makes the experience of art accessible, embraces the inevitability of change, supports the multiplicity of perspectives, and encourages the urgency of contemporary expression. Led by Director of Education & Visitor Engagement Catherine Arias, a large team of MOCA Events, Facilities, Audiovisual, Education, Visitor Engagement, and Security staff collaborated to welcome students with a truly VIP experience of the exhibitions MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio and Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom. Students asked, “How does art change the way we see our environment? How do artists question the way we see the world around us?” and presented art to trace their relationships to identity, place-making, media and spectacle.
Image credits
Top, left: Students discussing Young Joon Kwak’s To Refuse Looking Away from Our Transitionaing Bodies (Me And My Fat *****) (2023) in Made in L.A.: Acts of Living, photo by Fabiola López; top, right: MOCA Director of Education & Visitor Engagement Catherine Arias at the artworxLA public presentation event with Judith F. Baca, Nonviolent Resistance (1987-91) in the background on the occasion of the exhibition Judith F. Baca: World Wall, photo by Will Potter; bottom, left: Alice Kaufman, Hammer Museum Specialist for K-12 & Community Audiences addresses students, photo by Fabiola López; bottom, right: students taking photos of Paul Pfeiffer, Incarnator (2021) in the MOCA exhibition Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, photo by Alicia Alderete