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This new format is an effort to keep our constituents better informed about the activities of the Cultural Affairs Department and to save money and postage. It replaces many of the mailings for the various Cultural Affairs facilities and programs and will be delivered quarterly.

We'd appreciate your comments.

Thank you for your interest in, and support for, the Cultural Affairs Department. We hope you continue to use and enjoy our facilities and programing.

Have a terriﬁc 1991!

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ADOLFO V. NODAL General Manager

Cultural Affairs Department City of Los Angeles 433 South Spring Street, 10th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 485-2433 CULTURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT FACILITIES

Art-In-The-Park (A Junior Arts Center Satellite), Arroyo Seco Park, 5568 Via Marisol, Los Angeles (213) 259-0861 or (213) 485-4474.

Barnsdall Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles (213) 485-2116. Hours: M-Th 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Fri. 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.. Sat. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Sunday.

Hollyhock House, Barnsdall Art Park, 4808 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles (213) 485-4580 or recorded tour information (213) 662-7272. Tour Hours: T-Th 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon, 1 p.m. Saturday and ﬁrst, second and third Sundays, 12 noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Closed on the fourth Sunday of each month.

Gallery Theatre, Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles (213) 485-2460. Ofﬁce Hours: M-F 12 noon to 4 p.m.

Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Park, 4814 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles (213) 485-4474. Ofﬁce Hours: M-F 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Gallery open T-Sun. 12:30 to 5 p.m.

Lankershim Arts Center, 5108 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood (818) 989-8066. Hours: M-Sat. 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Closed Sunday.

Los Angeles Photography Center, 412 S. Park View St., Los Angeles (213) 383-7342. Hours: T-F 3-10 p.m.. Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Sun. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Encino Photography Center, 16953 Ventura Blvd., Encino (818) 784-7266. Hours: Wed. 2-10 p.m., Th-F 6-10 p.m.. Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

San Pedro Photography Center (Closed temporarily).

Los Feliz Performing Arts Center, 3224 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles (213) 665-5148.

McGroarty Arts Center, 7570 McGroarty Terrace, Tujunga (818) 352-5285. Hours: M-Sat. 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closed Sunday. Incorporating FOLK ARTS News Municipal Art Gallery, Bamsdall Art Park, 4804 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles (213) 485-4581. Hours: Tu-Sun 12:30-5 p.m. El Dia de los Muertos is a period of joy and celebration; it is a time to remember or receive the visit of a person who is dead but no less loved. At the same time, the ofrenda represents Satellite Galleries: a source of comfort and optimism for the living still to face death because they know that one day an ofrenda will be made for them. Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street They too will be remembered. For these reasons, an ofrenda is (213) 237-1373. Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. simultaneously an act of culture, art and love. West Los Angeles City Hall Gallery, 1645 Corinth Ave., West Los Angeles (213) 237-1373. Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Published by the Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013, (213) 485-2433 Artspace Gallery, 21800 Oxnard Street., Woodland Hills (818) 716-2786. Hours: M-F 12 noon to 5 p.m. Adolfo V. Nodal, General Manager Ann Giagni, Assistant General Manager The Triforium, The Los Angeles Mall at the corner of Main and Rodney Punt, Assistant General Manager Temple Streets (downtown Los Angeles) (213) 485-2437. Ofﬁce Jane Kolb, Public Relations Director Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cultural Affairs Commission Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 E. 107th Street, Los Angeles (213) David H. Simon, President 569-8181. Hours: Tu-Sat 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Julie A. Sgarzi, Vice President Michael C.F. Chan, A.IA. William Grant Still Arts Center, 2520 West View St., Los Angeles (213) 734-1164. Hours: Tu-Sat. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Sun. 12 noon to Bette Cox 4 p.m. Linda Griego Elyse S. Grinstein Harry L. Usher BARNSDALL ART PARK Deeded to the city in 1927 by oil heiress Aline Barnsdall Cultural Heritage Commission for use as a cultural center, the eleven-acre park has ﬁve city arts Dr. Amarjit S. Marwah, President facilities: the Bamsdall Arts Center, the Junior Arts Center, the Takashi Shida, A.I.A., Vice President Municipal Art Gallery, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House and the Gallery Theatre. Harold G. Becks Helen Madrid-Worthen Dr. Reynaldo R. Landero B a m s d a l l A r t s C e n t e r

The Barnsdall Arts Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was originally designated as the Director's House. The arts program at the Center offers a variety of adult classes, including jewelry- making, ceramics and drawing. Incorporating FOLK ARTS News Events

Continuing: Winter classes {through March 25). My father used to tell me of how on November 2 some of his relatives in Mexico created colorful ofrendas at home. These The "Helen Poschin Memorial Exhibition." were veritable banquet tables laden with mouth-watering foods such as mole and tamales in beautiful arrangements of candles, marigolds, sugar skulls. Day of the Dead bread, and various March 30 Registration for Spring classes are scheduled for seasonal fruits such as lemons, oranges, and sugar cane. 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. For information, call (213) 485-2116. The unique offerings were constructed with loving and March 30 Printmaking exhibition featuring artist Julie meticulous care for a deceased loved one who returned for a family visit to partake in the essence of a favorite meal. On occasion, Nordquist. a small trail of marigold petals was strewn from the doorstep to the table so that the visiting soul found its way easily. In addition, a miniature chair as well as a glass of water and a small bowl Junior Arts Center of salt were placed on the banquet table so that the spiritual visitor The Junior Arts Center, part of the could rest comfortably after a long journey and take nourishment. Barnsdall Art Park Complex, was founded in 1967 as a joint project of the Department During the mid-seventies, as a professor of Chicano Studies teaching Mexican culture, I started to create ofrendas with the of Cultural Affairs (then the Municipal Art help of my father, every year adding more and more detail. 1 now Department) and the League of Women build two ofrendas; a private one at home for my children and Voters. The Center introduced an another one at Cal State University Dominguez Hills for the public. innovative concept using well-known As a participant observer regarding this folk art, 1 was able to gifted artists to teach and work with gain valuable insights as to the signiﬁcance of an ofrenda. children. Children and art still come An ofrenda, as a welcome back dinner, implies the belief together in such popular programs as that a familia is not solely nuclear, but also extended and extensive, "Sunday Open Sunday," The Children's Art Festival and a series of classes that offer stretching out into the realm of the departed. Family members instruction in a variety of mediums to kids may be dead but not forgotten. Death does not diminish love. Consequently, an ofrenda is a polychromatic and multifaceted ranging in age from tots to teens. aesthetic creation that attracts rather than scares away. El Dia de los Muertos is not a Mexican Halloween! Events The making of ofrendas also has very important socio- Continuing: Winter/Spring classes. For information about cultural ramiﬁcations. Since they are put together to honor a registration and scholarships, call (213) 485-4474. deceased relative or friend, the living generations are reminded constantly where they come from or who they are. In this manner, ofrendas foster group or ethnic identity. Secondly, when ofrendas are taken down, the neighbors may interchange the food, candy, and fruit of their respective offerings. Accordingly, relationships are strengthened through acts of reciprocity, in this case ofrendas function as a source of social cohesion. Incorporating FOLK ARTS News February 17 Sunday Open Sunday, a free family workshop. LA OFRENDA: THE ART OF LOVE The Art of Bolivian Dolls.

by February 19 Exhibition: "MUTE," an installation by Barbara Miguel Dominguez, Ph.D. McCarren, focusing on the accessibility of art Cal State University Dominguez Hills work to both sighted and sight impaired viewers. Opening Reception: 6-9 p.m.

"Si me ban de matar mahana que me maten de una vez." February 24 Sunday Open Sunday, a free family workshop. (If I am to be killed tomorrow, let them kill me today). I fondly The Art of Mayan Spirit Boxes. recall my father singing these traditional lyrics during my childhood, part of an array of activities that etched in me the Mexican perspective regarding death and dying. March 3 Sunday Open Simday, a free family workshop. Aboriginal Folk Painting. My memories are heavy and rich with stories and anecdotes about La Llorona, the "flor de muerto" or the sempazuchil flower, March 10 Sunday Open Sunday, a free family workshop. and Day of the Dead bread. .! remember wakes with.open caskets The Art of Hawaiian Body Painting. and sometimes being held up to kiss the forehead of the cadaver. Death was a natural event not to be hidden or denied. March 17 Sunday Open Sunday, a free family workshop. The Art of Paper Lanterns. Forced assimilation or Americanization was to change me somewhat during adolescence. However, Americanization (which March 24 Sunday Open Sunday, a free family workshop. entails de-Mexicanization) left a lingering isolation and void due The Art of Floral Hakulei. in part to the U.S. emphasis on egotistic individualism and technology without humanism along with a devaluation of the March 31 Sunday Open Sunday, a free family workshop. past. The Art of Aztex Wind Instruments. Out of necessity, Mexican values started to well up from the subconscious to the conscious, tinting my adult mind set with Art-In-The-Park warm and vivid colors. Tapping dormant feelings and knowledge, A satellite program of the Junior Arts Center, Art-In-The- 1 began entire expeditions of cultural rediscovery, one voyage Park presents special workshops for children and their parents leading to the realm of the Day of the Dead. What was once latent in Arroyo Seco Park. For program information, call (213) 259-0861. became patent, and I began to observe El Dia de los Muertos. Like any other voyage, however, I needed a guide, someone who had been there before. That guide was my father Juan Dominguez. Born in a small pueblo in central Mexico, he came to Los Angeles Hollyhock House during WWII where he has lived to this day. He never abandoned Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, built between 1918 his lifestyle, passing on to me his language and customs. and 1920, is the first LA. area residence designed by the famous architect. The house, commissioned by oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, El Dia de los Muertos is a magical and dramatic time in was donated to the City of Los Angeles in 1927. Open for public Mexico when local mercados overflow with aromatic sempazuchil tours, hours are: T-Th 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon, 1 p.m. Saturday and (marigold) flowers, delicious candies and breads, and whimsical first, second and third Sundays, 12 noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Closed toys and folk art that reflect and sustain the philosophy of the on the fourth and fifth Sunday of each month. For recorded tour Day of the Dead. It is also the time to construct ofrendas. information, call (213) 662-7272. Incorporating FOLK ARTS News In recent years the conjunto has even become popular among folk and pop music enthusiasts in this country. For example, "Flaco" Jimenez (whose father Santiago was one of the pioneers of the genre), his brother Santiago, Jr., Steve Jorrdan, and a few others, have performed before non-Chicano audiences throughout the U.S. as well as in Europe and Japan. Flaco has been featured in documentary film on Texas Chicano music; he has performed with Ry Cooder, Doug Sahm, Peter Rowan and, most recently, with Buck Owens ("The Streets of Bakersfield"), and won a Grammy Award in 1986. In the 1980s two early accordionists— Narciso Martinez and Pedro Ayala—received National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program National Heritage Awards.

Further evidence of its recognition in this country is the fact that companies such as Folklyric and Rounder Records have released a number of albums featuring Texas and Mexican conjuntos.

In California, where large numbers of "Mexicans" from all Hollyhock House over Mexico and the Southwest have settled since the turn of the century, conjunto music was only one of many Mexican and Chicano, not to mention other "Hispanic," musical forms brought Municipal Art Gallery here. Furthermore, for decades it was almost completely overshadowed by other forms which have long been promoted The Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Art Park serves Los by Mexico as being more prestigious and more representative of Angeles citizens and artists and is a primary showcase for Los Mexican culture — most notably the mariachi. Angeles area artists. The Gallery has a large and flexible exhibition space (10,000 square feet) and is open to the public year round, But, evidently, the huge number of people who have musical closing only on Monday's and briefly during installations. roots in conjunto tradition has helped bring a measure of acceptance even in California. For instance, last June KSJV ("Radio Events Bilingue") in Fresno sponsored the first conjunto festival in California. While featuring only three groups, one local and two Continuing: School Tours - Tuesday through Friday, 10 and 11. Texas conjuntos, modest by Texas standards (San Antonio has an Call (213) 485-4581 for information. annual four-day conjunto festival including dozens of groups), and while appealing mostly to farm workers, it was an important step in the direction of honoring a folk tradition of which Mexicans February 19 "Enclosure," an exhibition having to do with everywhere can be proud. objectification within the construction of visible and transparent walls (through April 14). In this regard, the Mexican community of Los Angeles is in a particularly strategic position to help raise awareness vis a May 7 "Modifying the American Dream and Corridor," vis the conjunto. Although admittedly the Chicano Hollywood exhibition by six L.A. architects (through June 23). connection is tenuous at best, it did have the whole world singing "La Bamba" — rock and roll style no less. Also, the movie "Born in East L.A." featured Steve Jordan. And, who has not heard of "Los Lobos?" There's just no limit to what Hollywood could do with conjunto music ... for openers perhaps "Birth of the Conjunto?" Incorporating FOLK ARTS News Gallery Theatre

CONJUNTO: THE MUSIC OF LA RAZA Adjacent to the Municipal Art Gallery, the Gallery Theatre Jose R. Reyna seats 299 and is equipped with a professional lighting and sound system plus a projection booth for ﬁlm and slide presentations. "Conjunto" music emerged in the northern Mexico/South The theatre is used for City-sponsored cultural events as well as Texas cultural area in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, with community performing groups. the button accordion serving as the nucleus. Although modern Mexican music consists mainly of instruments introduced by the Theatre Events Spaniards, the accordion was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century by German and Czech settlers whose ancestors had been invited to settle Texas, then a largely unpopulated and unprotected frontier. March 5 FAR LECTURE: Sylvere Lotringer, philosopher, Columbia University, BARNSDALL ARTISTS Along with the accordion, they also brought to the region CAFE, 7:30 p.m. (Fee $4.00). For more information European musical genres such as the mazurka, waltz, schottische call (213) 225-6474. and polka, which by the late nineteenth century became the rage among elites not only in Europe, but also in Mexico. Incidentally, March 19 "Video Retrospective," by independent ﬁlmmaker many of the "norteno" (northern Mexico) dance steps which "ballet folkloricos" perform today actually date back to the days of Gary Glaser, BARNSDALL ARTISTS CAFE, 8 p.m. (Fee $5.00). For more information call (213) 485- Maximilian's court. 4581. At some point, in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, the accordion and a Mexican 12-string guitar, called a March 26 "Inside/Out," a performance by Michael Averyy bajo sexto," or simply, a "bajo," became the earliest conjunto Bell, BARNSDALL ARTISTS CAFE, 8 p.m. (Fee ensemble, sometimes including a bass drum and/or a string bass. $5.00). For more information call (213) 485-4581. In Texas Mexican tradition, that form prevailed until the early 1940s. By the 1950s, the drums and acoustic bass, which are obviously an Anglo American contribution to conjunto instrumentation, had been added to form what became the standard ensemble, i.e., button accordion, bajo sexto, acoustic bass and trap set.

I differentiate between Texas Mexican and Mexican because while both northern Mexican and Texas Mexican groups employ the same instruments, there are stylistic differences which people McGroarty Arts Center in both regions can easily recognize. Nevertheless, conjoints in both areas have become truly eclectic in their repertoire. In Texas, The McGroarty Arts now a thoroughly bilingual/bicultural area, conjuntos play not only C e n t e r i s l o c a t e d i n t h e standard Mexican music, but also any type of music that lends McGroarty home in the itself to conjunto instrumentation — cumbias, salsa, country and Verdugo Hills of Tujunga. western, rock and roll, R and B, even jazz in some instances, The home, "Rancho Chupa although the polka and the "ranchera" (Mexico's country and R o s a , " w a s b u i l t a s a western music) are still the staples. private residence for John Steven Incorporating FOLK ARTS News McGroarty, a poet, historian, dramatist, journalist and congressman. In 1954, the City of Los Angeles bought the home Juan Manuel Cortez. At the high school level, mariachis were and 16 acres of adjoining land. The library was restored and formed at various schools throughout Los Angeles, especially in dedicated in 1974. The house is now a public arts center and offers the city's eastside and other Latino sectors. classes for adults and children, exhibit space and is also used by the community for theatre and musical events. Mariachi festivals also began to arise in Los Angeles after initial movements began in San Antonio, Texas (1982), and Tucson Events (1983). The Universal Studios Hollywood mariachi festival was started in 1985 and continues on an annual basis. In 1990, two Continuing: Winter classes (through March 22). other festivals began operation. At UCLA the Mexican Arts Series staged a "mini-festival" in April billed as Feria de Mariachi, with February 19-22 Registration for Spring classes begins, 10 a.m. - 5:30 plans to expand into a larger instructional format. In June, a major p.m., Tuesday through Friday. production was staged at the Hollywood Bowl. Promoted as Mariachi U.S.A., the afternoon festival featured Vikki Carr, Linda March 9 Ukrainian egg decorating workshop, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 Rondstadt, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan (from Mexico City), Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Mariachi Sol de Mexico p.m. de Jose Hernandez, and Mariachi Las Camperos de America (from San Antonio, Texas). Plans were also made to continue this festival March 12 Show produced by Mt. Gleason and Verdugo on an annual basis. School children. Another phenomenon of mariachi culture in Los Angeles is its incorporation into the Roman Catholic Mass. The concept Lankershim Arts Center of the Misa Panamericana or Misa de Mariachi originated in 1966 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Folk genres and mariachi expression were T h e L a n k e r s h i m A r t s C e n t e r, adapted to the sung parts of the Mass. The Misa Panamericana the newest facility of the Department, was ﬁrst performed in Los Angeles in 1968 at Saint Joseph's Church opened on June 15 with a weekend in downtown Los Angeles on the feast day of Our Lady of of grand opening festivities. Guadalupe, December 12. Mariachi Imperial, directed by Gabriel Initially, the center is Leyva, performed the music. The mariachi Mass continued to be performed weekly at Saint Joseph's, Saint Basil's and at the Olvera sponsoring exhibitions only. It is Street La Placita church. At the latter, a Mass on the feast day open Tuesdays through Saturdays a n d w i l l a l s o b e a v a i l a b l e f o r of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1984 was accompanied by more than ﬁfty mariachi groups performing inside the church. Numerous community workshops, readings and other local parishes also continue to offer mariachi Masses for the the like. Spanish speaking population.

Events As in Mexico, the mariachi in Los Angeles has symbolized musical dexterity. Mariachi ensembles are required to maintain Continuing: Solo art exhibition featuring Monticello Miller. an extensive repertoire of Mexican traditional folk music in addition Opening reception Feb. 15, 6-10 p.m. (through to interpretations of current popular music. Mariachis are also March 8). expected to perform other popular Latin styles.

February 15 Artists reception - Solo art exhibition featuring Monticello Miller, 6-10 p.m. Incorporating FOLK ARTS News Los Angeles Photography Center

direct Mariachi Sol de Mexico. In 1986, following the developed The Los Angeles Photography tradition of the show mariachi, he also opened a restaurant, Cielito Center is located in the MacArthur Lindo, in El Monte, another eastside suburb of Los Angeles. Park area and offers classes, ﬁlm and photo developing facilities and Among the hundreds of mariachis that have performed in exhibition space. There is a satellite Los Angeles through the past forty years, some of the more recent ones include Mariachi America; Mariachi Mi Tierra; Mariachi Los gallery, the Encino Photography Center. The San Pedro Center Angeles; Mariachi Azteca; Mariachi Atotonilco; Mariachi Imperial; i s t e m p o r a r i l y c l o s e d . T h e Mariachi Los Rosas; and Mariachi Continental. Photography Centers charge a $25 membership fee. During the early 1970s student mariachi groups formed at various universities in Los Angeles. Because of the prominent mariachi culture in Los Angeles, many college students, both Events Mexican American and non-Mexican, began to experiment with the mariachi style. The ﬁrst such mariachi, Uclatlan, was formed Continuing "Power of Site; Landscape Photography" group in 1961 at UCLA's Institute of Ethnomusicology by Jesus Sanchez, exhibition (through Feb. 17). a traditional mariachi musician from ZacoaIco, Jalisco. Winter photography workshops (through March A second mariachi, Nuevo Uclatlan, was established and 30). directed by Daniel Sheehy in 1976 as part of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Program curriculum to continue the study group Jeff Levie and Edward McAndrews photography concept. Both Uclatlans still exist and perform throughout exhibit (through March 3). Southern California. The original Uclatlan has actually become one of the premiere mariachis in Southern California, and is also based in its own restaurant/show format, an establishment named El February 24 Marshall Katzman photographs, solo exhibit Mariachi in Orange County. (through March 24). Opening reception: 2 - 4 p.m.

Mariachi Nuevo Uclatlan was also directed for a period by March 5 A photography exhibition by children ages 2-4 yrs. Hector Aquiniga, and since 1981 has been headed by Stephen from Hilltop Nursery (through March 31). Pearlman, an anthropologist who studied at UCLA and ﬁnished his doctoral dissertation in 1988, entitled "Mariachi Music in Los March 10 Opening Reception, Children's Exhibition, 2 - 4

Angeles." p.m. Other college-based mariachis have included Mariachi Calstalitlan from California State University, Los Angeles; Mariachi Mexica-pan, originally formed at Roosevelt High School under the direction of Joaquin Soto (which evolved into one of the more popular professional mariachis); a student mariachi at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; and Mariachi Aztlan from California State University, Northridge. In the fall of 1989, the student mariachi ensemble was reactivated at UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology. Hired to direct the class were Nati Cano and W a t t s To w e r s a n d W a t t s To w e r s A r t s C e n t e r Incorporating FOLK ARTS F^ews

The Towers Guadalajara. In 1953 he went to the border city of Mexicali in The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia are the work of one man. Baja California where he played with Mariachi Chapala, eventually Sabato Rodia, an Italian immigrant. becoming the group's musical director. In 1957, the mariachi In 1921, Rodia purchased the relocated to Los Angeles, where it began to perform at the Granada Restaurant club on Broadway Avenue in the downtown district. triangular-shaped lot and began to construct his masterpiece which By 1962, Los Camperos were performing at Catalina Island, where he called "Nuestro Pueblo" (our they developed a unique road show for further travel tours. In town). For 33 years he was a 1963, the mariachi became headline artists along with Pedro Vargas construction worker by day and an at Carnegie Hall in New York City. artist by night. He collected broken In 1967, in collaboration with other members of Los glass, sga-sheli pottery, tile and Camperos and Francisco Fauce, then owner of the Million Dollar cob^to decorate his Theater, Cano opened La Fonda, which became the permanent towers.s/Thev'êre "Ittey' built without and principal establishment of Los Camperos' engagements. benefit of scaffolding using his tile- Eventually, he became principal owner. The restaurant quickly setter tools and a window-washers became one of the most popular night spots for both Los Angeles belt. residents and international tourists. Especially innovative was Rodia once said, "I had in Cano's concept of developing a mariachi "show," complete with mind to do something big and I folkloric dancers, dining amenities, and a diverse musical repertoire did it." The tallest of his towers of both commercially popular and dexterously demanding stands 99'/^ feet. The monument also features a gazebo with a arrangements. circular bench, three bird baths, and the "Ship of Marco Polo." Los Camperos Los Camperos have been featured at the major mariachi In 1954, nearing 75, Rodia deeded his property to a neighbor festivals in the Southwest, including those of Tucson, Universal and retired to Martinez, California. The Towers, administered by Studios in Los Angeles, and San Diego. In the annual Tucson the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, are now part International Mariachi Conference, Nati Cano has become a of a major conservation and restoration project. principal consultant. In 1990 he was awarded the National The Towers were named a National Landmark this year Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Award, the highest by the National Parks Department. national honor bestowed annually upon accomplished traditional a r t i s t s i n t h e U . S . Tours of Watts Towers, weather permitting, every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. (Fee: $2.00 for adults, $1.50 for children.) Mariachi Los Galleros de Pedro Rey is another highly popular and long standing mariachi also affiliated with a popular restaurant in Los Angeles County, El Rey, in Montebello. Principally W a t t s To w e r s A r t s C e n t e r owned by family members of the mariachi (the Hernandez The Watts Towers Arts Center, adjoining the Towers, not brothers), the restaurant was opened by director Pedro Hernandez (a.k.a. Pedro Rey) and other investors in 1976. Before organizing only conducts school tours of the Towers, but also offers art classes for children. The Center has become a viable force in the artistic Los Galleros in 1970, Pedro Hernandez had performed with both life of the community. There is a new, permanent installation of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan in Mexico and Mariachi Los Camperos folk instruments from the collection of Dr. Joseph Howard, a world de Nati Cano in Los Angeles. famous collector of drums and folk instruments from around the Jose Hernandez, one of the Hernandez brothers who world. performed with Los Galleros, left the group in order to form and Incorporating FOLK ARTS News Events

THE MARIACHI TRADITION IN LOS ANGELES Continuing: Permanent installation of a folk instrument exhibition from the collection of Dr. Joseph Howard, a world-famous collector of drums and The mariachi has been popular in Los Angeles since it folk instruments from around the world. In the became the vogue of Mexican radio during the 1930s. As South Gallery. immigration has continuously increased, so has the growth of mariachis. Perhaps the most well-known symbol of Mexican "Dance with Tabula," dance workshop for children, music, scores of mariachis I e every Saturday from 10 -11 a.m. perform at restaurants, clubs, weddings, civic functions, ^rR''' J P X t l "Mexico Negro: Legacia Africana" photography holiday celebrations and a exhibition by Tony Gleaton (through March 9). variety of other occasions. Due to the popularity of so many Mexican ranchera singers in Los William Grant Still Arts Center Angeles, mariachis have been a mainstay of musical accom Named after the well-known paniment for that genre in California black composer, the William addition to performing their Grant Still Arts Center seeks to play an traditional genre — the son jalisciense. integral role in the community. In addition to sponsoring art exhibitions, classes and workshops, the center founded and co- Additionally, current sponsors the annual "African Market popular singers of the mariachi place" festival. style from Mexico are constantly presented in concert at major Dr. William Grant Still venues such as the Pico Rivera Sports Arena, the Universal (1095-1978) Amphitheater, the Los Angeles Sports Arena, the Greek Theater, "Great American Composer" the Million Dollar Theater, the Hollywood Bowl, and numerous Events community parks and concert halls. Such artists have included Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Lola Beltran, Lucha Villa, Luis Aguilar, Vicente Fernandez, Miguel Aceves Mejia, M a r c h 3 Southern California Women's Caucus for Art presents the "1991 ANNUAL JURIED Juan Gabriel, Rocio Durcal, and Aida Cuevas. EXHIBITION," curated/juried by Noriko Gamblin, of the Long Beach Museum of Art (through April Of the two most recognized mariachis in Los Angeles, the one 14). of dominant impact and popularity has been Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, which has existed for the past 29 years. March 10 Opening reception: Juried Exhibition for Southern Many afﬁcionados of the art form have consistently rated Los California Women's Caucus for Art, 3 ■ 5 p.m. Camperos among the most proﬁcient and stylized mariachis in both Mexico and the United States. Nati (Natividad) Cano, the director of the mariachi, opened the home restaurant/club base of the group. La Fonda de Los Camperos, located on Wilshire Boulevard near MacArthur Park. Originally from the small town of Ahuisculco in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, Cano studied mariachi music with his father and violin at the Academia de Musica in ART EXHIBITIONS Incorporating FOLK ARTS News

Satellite Galleries Folk Arts Program News

Moon Over Los Angeles The Satellite galleries consist of three exhibition spaces — A moon viewing procession in Chinatown ended the 1990 the Bridge Gallery located in the Los Angeles City Hall and the Chinese Moon Festival, held in conjunction with the Los Angeles West Los Angeles City Hall Gallery in the West Los Angeles Festival and co-produced by the Folk and Traditional Arts Program. Municipal Building and Artspace, operated in cooperation with Approximately 3,500 people attended the day of opera, dance, the Cultural Foundation, in Woodland Hills. music, storytelling and crafts.

Craft Workshops Offered Bridge Gallery The Folk and Traditional Arts Program is sponsoring a series of workshops this fall in which master artists from the Hawaiian March 13 "Images and Origins; Reflections of Women and Samoan communities in Los Angeles will demonstrate arid Photographers," juried exhibit, co-sponsored by train students in a variety of traditional arts, including mats, leis, the City's Commission on the Status of Women and baskets. (through April 19). Folk-Arts-In-The-Schools West Los Angeles City Hall Gallery With the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Folk and Traditional Arts Program is coordinating a program bringing artists and lesson plans in the traditional arts to targeted schools. Continuing: "Mirrors of Faith," a collection of photographs from five continents, by Claire Rydell (through April 5). Ethnic Dance Festival An ethnic dance festival, showcasing emerging dance groups February 14 Opening reception for "Mirrors of Faith," 7 - 9 p.m. from many cultures, is scheduled for early 1991.

New Publications Artspace Gallery Two new publications will be published this fall by the Los Angeles Folk and Traditional Arts Program. "How to Grow a February 25 "Reduction to Order," a group exhibition focusing Multicultural Festival," written by Susan Auerbach, draws on on art work that is reduced to an order that is surveys of hundreds of festival directors for information and imposed by the artists. Opening reception: examples of planning multicultural festivals. The second Tuesday, Feb. 26, 7-9 p.m. (through April 6). publication is a Directory of Traditional Arts Organizatations, which is designed to help the Los Angeles traditional arts community March 2 "Conversations with the Artists," in conjunction improve communications. with current exhibit, "Reduction to Order," is scheduled from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. PUBUC FOLKLORE DIRECTORY UPDATE New contact: Dr. Julie Heifetz Folk and Traditional Arts Program, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department 433 S. Spring St., 10th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 485-6759 Fax: (213) 485-6835 Winter, 1991 Vol. 6, No. 1 PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM

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I . A . F O L K A K T S In 1989 the Cultural Affairs Department introduced an News from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept. Folk Arts Program expanded festival program with the theme 'Celebrating Los Angeles.' The program highlights the diverse art forms and cultures in the city and supports various festivals throughout the city.

The latest edition of the festival brochure, listing all of the 1991 festivals, is available from the Performing Arts Division, (213) 485- 2437. F o l k A r t s First quarter festivals include:

The Folk Arts Program was established in 1985 to help preserve, Native American Film Festival - Southwest Museum

present and promote the traditional arts of the City's diverse Chinese New Year Celebration communities. The program sponsored a technical assistance conference for those interested in setting up or adding to folk L.A. Freewaves Video Festival arts programs. They hosted various folklore workshops and VITAS; Film Festival of Contemporary Folklife/Popular conducted several community surveys, including Italian, Chinese, Culture Persian and African American. Folk And Traditional Arts Dance Festival Latin American Independent Video Festival

19th Annual American Indian Festival & Market Jornadas Culturales

For information on these festivals, call for the free Festival Brochure.

The Performing Arts Division also produces "Sundays at Four," a free series of chamber concerts every Sunday in the Leo S. Bing Theatre at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The concerts are broadcast live on KUSC Radio (91.5 f.m.).

T H E L O S A N G E L E S A R T S E N D O W M E N T

The Los Angeles Arts Endowment is an innovative funding package proposed by Councilman Joel Wachs, and adopted by the City Council in November 1988. It increases citywide support for the arts. The endowment, administered by the Cultural Affairs Department, has increased the funding of the city's Cultural Grant Program and is making possible public arts programing as well. City Arts News, a publication about the endowment, including information for and about the arts community, is incorporated into this publication. Vol. Ill, No. 1 February, 1991 Incorporating City Arts News

L.A.Freewaves: Celebration of Independent Video CityAiisNews To Take Place March 1-31 A newsletter for the City of Los Angeles arts and cultural outreach program/City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department L. A. Freewaves, the city's second regional video festival, will take place during the month of March, 1991. One hundred arts organizations, cable stations, media centers and schools will CITY'S CULTURAL MASTERPLAN offer screenings, exhibitions, installations, panel presentations and DRAFT RELEASED twice-a-week cable casts. The festival will once again showcase video art, radical Early last month. Mayor Tom Bradley released the draft of the Los Angeles Cultural Masterplan. The plan, which is available from documentaries, experimental narratives and new animation the Cultural Affairs Department, is a blueprint for establishing ranging from high tech computer graphics to personal tapes made and accomplishing the City's artistic and cultural goals over the on consumer equipment. next five to ten years. It includes comprehensive information on The artists and independent videomakers range from the arts in Los Angeles, and proposes a framework for future funding decisions. The Cultural Affairs Department is now calling emerging to those with international reputations. African for written responses to the plan, which will be incorporated into American, Asian American, European American, Latino, Native a final chapter. American, Lesbian, Gay and student videomakers' work will be in high contrast to broadcast television and Hollywood-style films. The masterplan marks the conclusion of a five-year imple mentation process for the Los Angeles Arts Endowment, introduced by Councilman Joel Wachs in 1985. The plan, which JAZZ CARAVAN PROFILES was developed for the Cultural Affairs Department by the HOLLYWOOD JAZZ consulting firm of Morris McNeill, Inc., studies eight critical areas: government funding of the arts in Los Angeles, arts and cultural The Los Angeles Jazz Society's JAZZ CARAVAN has facilities citywide, the needs of local arts organizations, a survey scheduled fourteen free concerts. Most of these concerts are set of artists and audiences, the demographics of the city's population, for elementary schools, but the schedule also includes a cooperation among governmental agencies, adaptive reuse of performance for high school students of Hamilton Academy of cultural monuments, and an evaluation of city-run arts facilities. Music and a public concert that will take place in the Rotunda at Los Angeles City Hall. The masterplan involved extensive public participation, beginning with the 1986-88 Los Angeles Task Force on the Arts, a Mayor's Concerts feature A1 Aarons, trumpet; Ann Patterson, blue-ribbon committee consisting of 50 prominent arts leaders. saxophone; Dwight Dickerson, piano; Leslie Baker, bass, and Jack In 1989, the Cultural Affairs Department attended over 40 public Le Compte on drums. meetings citywide to collect information on arts support needs. In 1990, the department circulated over 50,000 copies of a brochure These free concerts are made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and explaining the study, and followed it with an arts hotline to accept comments and suggestions on the masterplan. Following that, an the Music Performance Trust Fund, Local #47. For more information, call (213) 469-6800. Incorporating City Arts News Incorporating City Arts News audience and artist survey was sent to a sample of 6,184 individuals CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS drawn from the mailing lists of 95 arts organizations, and a 200- ANNOUNCES WORKSHOP FOR MURAUSTS member Arts Advisory Committee, composed of a diverse group of arts and community leaders, worked to distill all this information MURALISTS' RIGHTS will be the topic of a workshop presented into the following 14 vision statements: by California Lawyers For The Arts on March 27, 1991. The workshop will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the law firm of Gold, Marks, 1. Los Angeles should distinguish itself as an international art Ring & Pepper, located at 1800 Avenue of the Stars, 3rd Floor, center through the development of its multicultural character. Century City. The cost is $15, or $5 for CLA members. Call (213) 623-8311 to reserve your space for this MURALISTS' RIGHTS workshop. 2. The role of the artists must be recognized as central to the vitality of cultural life. Other scheduled workshops include Collaborative Agreements, Debt Collection and the Bankruptcy Process, Overview of 3. The City should take a lead in creating an infrastructure of Copyright and Songwriters' Royalties Rights. For information, call artists organizations and institutions to assist in making the (213) 623-8311. arts available and part of the lives of its citizens.

4. The arts must reflect the multicultural nature and profile of ARTS, INC. TO PUBUSH NEW DIRECTORY Los Angeles. ARTS, Inc. will publish an update edition of the ARTS, Inc. Directory: A Directory of Non Profit Arts Organizations in Los 5. The City should support and encourage excellence, quality Angeles County. The project includes a census of the arts and innovation in the art of all cultures. community and is targeted for publication in early 1991. It will be available for sale for $7.50. 6. The City should provide for expansion of audiences for the arts and access to cultural services for all its citizens. Support for the new directory has been provided by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the Wells Fargo Foundation. If you 7. The City should use its resources to distribute art centers represent a non-profit arts organization and have not been and activities throughout the city. contacted, please call ARTS, Inc. at (213) 627-9276. 8. The City should use its resources to ensure that support ARTS, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides technical for art and opportunities to participate in art activities should assistance to arts organizations throughout Los Angeles County. be distributed in an equitable manner. The directory is just one of the organization's many services. Others include individually-tailored management consultations, a bridge 9. The City should take the lead in incorporating the work and loan program, business volunteers for the arts, and the Multicultural Arts Management Internship Project. ideas of artists in the development of the physical landscape.

10. The city should use its resources to promote art experiences and art education as an integral part of life for its youth. Incorporating City Arts News Incorporating City Arts News

11. The City should ensure that places and events of historical $2,555 signiﬁcance, both physical and/or cultural, be preserved and Cheri Gualke. To produce an artist's book about the L.A. River in celebrated. collaboration with students and a teacher from Wilson High School. Contact: Cheri Gaulke (213) 221-6162. 12. The City should recognize that the arts are an important industry and they contribute to the economic vitality of Los Angeles. $7,500 Ron George. To produce a new musical instrument, the Inner-City 13. The City should promote the arts through a comprehensive Gamelan, with and for children who live in L.A.'s inner city. marketing campaign. Contact: Ron George (213) 523-6213.

14. The Cultural Affairs Department should ensure optimal use $10,000 of City resources by taking a leadership role in maximizing Cecilia C. Gruessing. To produce and present two original musical intradepartmental cooperation on arts-related activities and productions with teenagers from Para los Ninos. Contact: Cecilia expenditures. C. Gruessing (213) 852-7021. The masterplan consolidates these statements into related groups of activities, and includes the following recommendations: $10,000 Wayne Healy. To produce an outdoor mural at a LAUSD'campus Art in the City in East L.A. Contact: Wayne Healy (213) 221-3303.

The Cultural Affairs Department should continue public $5,000 participation in the implementation of the Masterplan. Aheneva Hilson. To present a show depicting ancient African design The cultural development of the City should be explicitly techniques still used in modern fashions. Contact: Aheneva Hilson connected to the growth and development of international trade. (213) 778-8427. A council on International Cultural Development should be formed to travel with trade delegations to promote the arts to corporations $5,000 abroad and to promote cultural exchange. Velina Hasu Houston. To produce a play dealing with issues confronting Amerasian individuals entitled 'The Melting Plot." The City should promote, the arts through a comprehensive Contact: Velina Hasu Houston (213) 452-4151. marketing campaign. This campaign would promote the arts within and outside the city. Integral to its success would be the $11,000 participation and promotion of a broad spectrum of the arts community, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary. Kathleen Zundell. To present storytelling performances of international folk tales with American sign language and The City must continue to increase its funding commitment to movement. Contact: Kathleen Zundell (213) 455-2567. the arts in order to achieve the goal of becoming an international economic and cultural center. A long-term annual funding of $30 million is suggested. Incorporating City Arts News Incorporating City Arts News

Equity and the Arts Western Alliance Offers Scholarships To achieve funding equity the Cultural Affairs Department should The Western Alliance of Arts Administrators is an organization create three large fund categories within the grant program — that serves professional performing artists, their managers, * Large Institution Support, Community Arts (individuals and representatives of arts organizations, universities, colleges and C others involved in the presentation of professional performing arts organizations). Organizational Development in under-served e t h n i c c o m m u n i t i e s . in the 13 Western States and Western Canada.

Each year the group hosts a conference that brings together about The Cultural Affairs Department should provide multi-year 700 of these professionals' to exchange information that leads to funding for at least eight currently established arts organizations in under-served ethnic communities for the purpose of institution- engagements. A breadth of disciplines are represented — from ballet to world beat music. building, audience development within these communities.

With the assistance of a grant from the Cultural Affairs Department, The Cultural Affairs Department should adopt and implement a 13 scholarships were offered to emerging artists, ensembles and policy to provide outside expert opinion and/or site visits when presenters for the 1990 conference. These scholarship awardees peer panel members are unfamiliar with art forms they are attended workshops, roundtable meetings and visited the 200 reviewing. booths run by artists and agents. The governing boards, management and staff of the large arts The Western Alliance is planning their 1991 conference for Portland, institutions of Los Angeles should become ethnically and culturally and Los Angeles artists interested in applying for scholarships diverse in order to achieve programing and audience equity. should contact WAAA with a letter of application that gives background on the applicant and tells what the scholarship would d o f o r t h e m . The Cultural Affairs Department must serve as a citywide model for programing, funding and audience equity by targeting new staff resources toward the development of culturally diverse ethnic Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation and traditional arts. 315 West 9th Street, Suite 403 Los Angeles, CA 90014-4204 Developing the Artists Corrections The Cultural Affairs Department should adopt the following policy The last issue of City Arts News inadvertently omitted several designed to reaffirm Mayor Bradley's and the City Council's 1990-91 Cultural Grant Recipients. Sorry! position to stand firmly in support of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights: "In seeking to affirm the City's cultural diversity and the necessity for artistic freedom, the City will not deny any $12,000 service, support, or funding to any artist or organization based Juan Garza. To produce a film entitled "The Trouble with Tonia." on the content of any art work." Contact: Juan Garza (213) 484-2134. Incorporating City Arts News Incorporating City Arts News

The Cultural Affairs Department should step up efforts to fund Arts of Mexico Planned for 1991 at least one service organization to provide legal, accounting, housing, arts, materials, or health insurance assistance to local Artes de Mexico Festival, scheduled for September through artists. December 1991, is projected to be one of the largest festivals ever to celebrate the cultural achievements of Mexico. The program A > of visual and performing arts will bring the breadth, complexity Developing the Audience and sophistication of Mexico's cultural heritage to audiences throughout the city. The Cultural Affairs Department should maintain its commitment to supporting individual artists' projects and to other approaches Crowning the Festival will be the most comprehensive survey to directly fund the work of individual artists. of Mexican visual art to tour the United States in more than ﬁfty years. Mexico: Splendors of Thirtv Centuries, organized by New The City should leverage its resources to increase public access York's Metropolitan Museum of Arts, will bring major works from to low-cost and free art and cultural experiences. every era of Mexican history to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This monumental exhibition and a generous start-up grant of $175,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation were the impetus for The City should review and adjust its own programing to assure the Festival. A group of Los Angeles area business and community that it is serving a diverse audience. leaders has formed the Artes de Mexico Festival Committee to organize local support for festival events. To assist arts organizations in expanding their audiences, the Cultural Affairs Department should provide technical assistance The Festival offers the arts community an opportunity to for mailing-list computerization. participate in a number of ways. Any arts group planning presentations based on Mexican or Mexican-American experiences The City should conduct a study of the general population of and themes is welcome to ask for endorsement from the Festival Los Angeles to identify lifestyle trends, leisure-time activities and Committee. Endorsement means that the event will receive cultural practices, particularly among those ethnic groups under- permission to use the Festival logo in its advertising and publicity represented in the current arts audience, and should give local and will be included in appropriate promotion prepared by the arts organizations access to the results. Committee.

Youth and Education Any artist, organization or presenter interested in consideration V for this type of endorsement is invited to request an application f o r m f r o m D r . S a m u e l M a r k . The mission of the municipal arts facilities to develop audiences should be targeted to youth. Artes de Mexico Festival Committee use Civic and Community Relations Ofﬁce The Cultural Affairs Department should establish a Youth Arts 835 West 34th Street, Suite 102 Advocacy Function to promote and facilitate the adoption, expan Los Angeles, CA 90089-0751 sion and support of arts education for youth in the City. At least one new professional staff position should be ﬁlled as soon as FAX: (213) 740-8411 possible. Incorporating City Arts News Incorporating City Arts News

This interim ordinance will not become law until the City completes The Visual Landscape a legal study required by state law (Assembly Bill 1600) which demonstrates the relationship between new development and the The Cultural Affairs Department should include in its public art need to create cultural enhancements. (The "Nexus Study" to , program guidelines on the use of artists as design team members ' for projects in public spaces. satisfy this needs relationship is near completion.) Although this ordinance is retroactive to January 1989, developers are not 1 required to deposit money into this tod until the City completes J The Cultural Affairs Department should encourage the use of artists its legal response to Assembly Bill 1600. The fee wiO also vary in the planning process of the City of Los Angeles, including according to the amount of development taking place in any participation on planning commissions, zoning boards and particular year. neighborhood planning councils.

While traditional "percent-for-art" programs are usually restricted The Cultural Affairs Department should revise its nomination to the placement of on-site visual art works, the Los Angeles application for historical monuments to require a brief description ordinances are broader in their intent. The funds can be used either of the monument's cultural history, clearly identifying the race on-or off-site, and can he used to support performances, restoration, and gender of its users and occupants over time. visual art works and a variety of other services. The Cultural Affairs Department approval process for the public Request for Feedback art program should be consistent with overall Department policy on equity and include representation of culturally diverse artists The Cultural Masterplan is available to the public, and there wiU and art forms. be a charge to cover printing costs. The Cultural Affairs Department welcomes feedback on the masterplan in written form. For further The Cultural Affairs Department should commission or conduct information, call the Cultural Affairs Department at (213) 620-9570. a policy study detailing citywide goals for cultural and historic preservation and planning guidelines to meet those goals.

The Cultural Heritage staff of the Cultural Affairs Department should be increased by at least one new preservation specialist City Arts News is still accepting publicity items from any of our position. grant recipients. Please send any items to:

City Arts News Cultural Infrastructure Cultural Affairs Department 433 S. Spring Strreet, 10th Floor The primary function of the Cultural Affairs Department should Los Angeles, CA 90013 be to develop and maintain an infrastructure that supports the arts for the people of Los Angeles. If you have interesting press quality photos of any of your projects, please send them. The primary mission of the Cultural Affairs Department municipal arts facilities, as a category, should be to develop an audience for the arts; and the secondary mission should be to serve the local artists and arts community. Incorporating City Arts News Incorporating City Arts News

The Cultural Affairs Department General Manager should request by City Council in November 1988. The Endowment contains funds that the Civil Service Commission establish a Task Force on Artists from three separate sources with differing restrictions. and Arts Administration Compensation in Government Service.

{ ' I Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Equivalent A planning function which focuses on the public and private ^ percent-for-arts programs, initially staffed by at least one profes Beginning with the 1989-90 fiscal year, an amount from the General sional planner, should be added to the Cultural Affairs Department. Fund equal to a one-percent transient occupancy tax is deposited into the Endowment Fund. These funds are unrestricted, and can Each existing municipal arts facility, with limited exceptions, be spent by CAD for facilities, art works, art services or cultural should have an education component, office space for general preservation. The cultural grants awarded to nonprofit administration and festival coordination; classrooms; and a well- organizations are supported through this portion of the Endowment. The amount depends on the strength of the economy equipped, flexible area. In addition, the budget should provide sufficient staff to teach classes for youth and adults during evening and hotel occupancy ($4-6 million a year is expected). This General Fund allocation is dependent on annual Council approval. a n d w e e k e n d h o u r s .

The Cultural Affairs Department should develop strategies to P u b l i c P e r c e n t strengthen support services and communication among the An amount equal to one percent of the total cost of all construction municipal arts facilities and between the Cultural Affairs improvement or remodeling work for each public works capital Department ofﬁce and the facilities. improvement project undertaken by the City. These funds originate from a variety of sources and have attendant restriction limiting The Cultural Affairs Department should make larger grants to where they can he spent. Only a small percentage of the monies artists and arts organizations as the grants funds within the will pass through the Arts and Cultural Services Trust Fund. The endowment increase. amount available as one percent of the City's capital improvement program will also vary. Not every capital improvement will be The Cultural Affairs Department should strengthen its eligible for this assessment, and the City Attorney will have to infrastructure of municipal arts facilities by developing four determine eligibility as projects begin. (Currently $103,000 is available and $14 million is anticipated over the next ﬁve years.) regional multi-disciplinary arts centers which serve a constellation ^ of three or four community arts centers. Private Percent

The Cultural Affairs Department should convert five existing The Art Development Fee Ordinance is an interim measure that municipal satellites to multipurpose centers and should develop puts the public on notice that the City is considering the enactment five new community multipurpose centers in under-served areas. of an arts development fee of up to one percent of the total value of work and construction authorized by a building permit issued to a private development project. The proposed arts development Funding fee on private development can be used for a variety of purposes. However, it must be demonstrated that the cultural improvement The Arts and Cultural Facilities and Services Trust Fund is "may be used by the patrons, occupants and owners of the commonly referred to as the Arts Endowment, or the Los Angeles development project; and that it satisfies the cultural and artistic Arts Endowment Fund. It was established by ordinance, enacted needs of the development project "