L.A. County to get NEA grant
The National Endowment for the Arts will funnel $680,000 this year to programs in Los Angeles County that help bring the arts to school-age children.
The biggest of the 17 grants, $85,000, goes to the county arts commission to help fund an artist-in-residence program that’s part of Arts for All, a larger attempt to establish arts education as a fundamental part of the curriculum in the county’s 80 school districts.
The county will match the NEA grant, and the effort will get help from the Jewish Community Foundation; it has launched a campaign to raise $100,000 by year’s end to pay the freight for 158 artist-in-residency programs in 14 school districts.
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