[addressing ongoing issues confronting artist(s) in los angeles¹]
In January 2006 the California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles (CACLA) was founded.
The California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles (CACLA) is a 501 (c) (3) arts-based nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting visual artists, public art projects, and youth art projects in all communities, focusing on underserved communities.
Among the objectives we are developing and implementing are systematic strategies to create a self-sustaining infrastructure as we create, manage, and facilitate public art and beautification projects, and create programs instructing youth in creating public art projects at schools and in their communities.
To fulfill our mission, we are proud to announce that the California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles (CACLA) has signed a multi-year contractual agreement with the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) to create, manage, and facilitate public art projects in all of the CRA's seven (7) enterprise zones throughout Los Angeles.
Additionally, we are identifying other funding sources as we fulfill our mission of bringing public art and beautification projects to Los Angeles.
We are confident that our work will create a new paradigm by continuing to think outside of the box, move into the circle, and build for our community and beyond.
Ayndrea Wilson, Executive Director
California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles
In January 2006 California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles was founded.
We're confident that the work we're doing will create a new paradigm, as we continue to think outside of the box, move into the circle and build for our community and beyond.
Among the items being currently developed and implemented are systematic strategies to create a self sustaining infrastructure, to develop and expand the Art Community. Second, to bring public art to under served communities. Third, create youth art programs.
To fulfill our mission to bring public art and youth art programs to under served communities, we are proud to announce that California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles (CACLA) has signed a three year contract with the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles (CRA/LA) to create and facilitate public art projects in CRA's enterprise zones throughout Los Angeles. Thus connecting public art projects with local artists, as well as youth art projects in under served communities.
What do we need to do now?
California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles
The California Artist Coalition of Los Angeles (CACLA) is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization dedicated to supporting visual artists, public arts projects and youth art programs in all communities with a focus on under served communities.
This question has ping-ponged back and forth in the collective psyche of the Los Angeles Art Community for several decades. Essentially, no long terms strategies have surfaced, to significantly enhance the presence and emphasize the importance of a non-artist generated long term support system. Without that mechanism in place, the artist will continue to operate in a vacuum and exist in a bubble.
One can argue that the signs of a support system are in place, i.e. museums, galleries, print media, an occasional critique or historian, to construct what is reduced to a make-shift support structure in many cases. These efforts have been generated by the artists themselves and/or individuals, in some cases, who are lacking the necessary expertise, have responded from a place of crisis orientation. Subsequently, the artist have the distinct disadvantage of being in a short-term and lead a precarious existence at best. The necessity of the moment overrules long term planning, as artist and institutions, operate independent of each other, instead of interdependently in a mutually supportive system. As a result, most never rise above the survival mode.
On November 16th, 2005 at the Brotherhood Crusade Headquarters, a group of artist(s) met to continue the dialogue and address ongoing issues confronting artist(s) in Los Angeles. Those in attendance represented a significant cross section of the visual arts community. A think tank for strategic and long term planning has evolved from this meeting.
