City Council District 14

Artist-in-Residence Ariyan Johnson is an accomplished professional actress and dancer with experience teaching various populations in an array of disciplines.

Arts for LA campaigns to maintain public funding for arts and culture, works to increase access to arts education for public school students, and builds public will to support the arts.

The Bilingual Foundation of the Arts (BFA) presents the finest Hispanic literary culture for both Spanish- and English- speaking audiences.

CASA 0101 Theatre is dedicated to providing vital arts, cultural, and educational programs, thereby nurturing the future storytellers of Los Angeles who will someday transform the world.

EAL/LA is a network of arts professionals whose purpose is to grow and support the next generation of creative leaders in the greater Los Angeles area.

WriteGirl is a creative writing and mentoring organization that promotes creativity, critical thinking and leadership skills to empower teen girls.

Company of Angels is Los Angeles' oldest non-profit repertory theater company, founded in 1959 by actors Richard Chamberlain, Leonard Nimoy, Vic Morrow and legendary entertainment attorney Bertram Fields.

For over 29 years, Cornerstone has brought together an ensemble of professional artists of the highest caliber to produce works of excellence based on the stories, concerns and issues of a given community.

Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock provides innovative and multicultural art education opportunities through workshops, after school programming, and art camps.

As the nation’s premier Asian American theatre organization, East West Players produces artistic works and educational programs that foster dialogue exploring Asian Pacific experiences.

The Chinese American Museum is dedicated to researching, preserving, and sharing the experiences and contributions of Chinese Americans in the U.S. through quality exhibitions, programs, events, publications, and workshops.

Grand Performances, a non-profit organization, presents free performing arts that reflect the best of global culture and inspire community among the diverse peoples of Los Angeles.

Highland Park Chamber of Commerce promotes Highland Park’s arts, business, and professional community in order to insure a better area in which to live, work, and play.

Since its inception, Inner-City Arts has served 150,000 of the city’s most at-risk children at no cost to the students.

The mission of the JACCC is to present, perpetuate, transmit and promote Japanese and Japanese American arts and culture to diverse audiences, and to provide a center to enhance community programs.

The Japanese American National Museum is dedicated to sharing the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry as an integral part of U.S. history and culture through exhibitions, public programs, resources, educational programs, and more.

COLA grantee Jim Skuldt is a Los Angeles based visual artist. He received a MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2005 and is a lecturer in Sculpture at UCLA.

Artist-in-Residence Judy Leventhal provides school based and social agency based programs in masks and mask making to support children and youth socially, emotionally and academically.

Latino Theater Company's mission is to produce diverse theater, dance, and music programming, along with creating summits and artistic discussions for peoples of all cultures.

LADADSpace is a non-profit which has been promoting LA's Arts District as a true creative community for over 10 years.

LA Master Chorale Association advance choral music through performance, community education, collaboration, commissioning and recording.

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form.

Los Angeles Poverty Department creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities.

Lummis Day celebrates the arts, history and ethnic diversity of Northeast Los Angeles through educational and cultural events and an annual festival.

A multi-Pushcart Prize nominee, COLA grantee Lynne Thompson is author of two chapbooks, We Arrive By Accumulation and Through A Window and of Beg No Pardon.

Artist-in-Residence Mary Scheer is an actress, comedian, and arts educator who teaches theater to 12-18 year-olds.

COLA grantee Megan Geckler creates large-scale, site-specific installations using construction flagging tape, mathematical calculations, and color theory.

MOCA is committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of art created after 1940, in all media, and to preserving that work for future generations.

A national coalition of ensembles created by and for artists, the Network of Ensemble Theaters exists to propel ensemble theater practice to the forefront of American culture and society.

The Olvera Street Merchants Association Foundation was founded as a non profit 501(c)3 in order to continue to provide traditional, cultural events and resources to the greater Los Angeles community.

Pacific Opera Project is dedicated to presenting energetic, high-quality, accessible performances of a broad variety of operatic repertoire.

Standing at the center of LA arts and culture for close to 50 years, The Music Center is proud to be regarded as one of world’s premier performing arts destinations.

Piece by Piece provides low-income and formerly homeless people free mosaic art workshops using recycled materials to develop marketable skills, self-confidence, earned income and an improved quality of life.

Opened in April 2011, LA Plaza (a non-profit organization) is the nation's premier (and LA's first) center of Mexican American culture and arts.

RAZORCAKE is the first and only official non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in America primarily dedicated to supporting independent music culture.

The mission of Robey Theatre Company is to develop, explore, and produce plays written about the global Black Experience.

From his early self-portraits to his more recent abstractions, COLA grantee Sandeep Mukerjee’s interest as an artist has always been in making a hybrid object—part painting, part drawing, part sculpture and part environment

Founded in 1992, Santa Cecilia Orchestra has made a commitment to share the beauty and inspiration of classical music, giving special focus to Latinos.

For almost 40 years, Self Help Graphics & Art has emerged as the leading visual arts cultural center which serves the predominantly Chicano/Mexicano community of Los Angeles.

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation, and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area.

For 30 years, the Center for Nonprofit Management has stood as the premier resource for the Southern California nonprofit community.

Southern California Institute of Architecture is dedicated to educating architects who will imagine and shape the future.

The TAIKOPROJECT is an ensemble of premiere taiko drummers dedicated to promoting and advancing the American art of taiko.

The Center for Cultural Innovation promotes knowledge sharing, networking and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing business training, grants, and incubating innovative projects.

The Colburn School is a leading performing arts school where a renowned faculty provides instruction to dedicated students of all ages.

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's mission is to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation.

The mission of the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles (MCLA) is to restore, preserve, and document the murals of Los Angeles. MCLA is not affiliated with DCA's Citywide Mural Program.

Our mission is to promote intercultural understanding through the creation, presentation, preservation and support of media works by and about Asian Pacific Americans.

Watts Village Theater Company produces original works of theater and educational programming to honor the rich history, cultural diversity and under-served populations of South Los Angeles.

COLA grantee Won Ju Lim explores intersections of memory, fantasy, and real and imagined spaces, drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Baroque architecture, science-fiction films and the contemporary urban landscape.

Young Musicians Foundation exists to unify communities through exceptional classical music experiences for youth.

Young Storytellers engages creativity through the art of storytelling. Our mission is to inspire young people to discover the power of their own voice.