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Calendar: Chouinard To Boost Education in The Arts

The Chouinard Foundation will partner with the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks to provide art education programs in underserved public recreation centers. The foundation will hold art classes and bring in visiting artists to teach at centers. This will begin with a pilot program at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center, with the goal of eventually expanding it to 47 centers citywide. The partnership aims to provide free art instruction to youth and prevent at-risk teenagers from engaging in gangs or drugs.

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Calendar: Chouinard To Boost Education in The Arts

The Chouinard Foundation will partner with the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks to provide art education programs in underserved public recreation centers. The foundation will hold art classes and bring in visiting artists to teach at centers. This will begin with a pilot program at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center, with the goal of eventually expanding it to 47 centers citywide. The partnership aims to provide free art instruction to youth and prevent at-risk teenagers from engaging in gangs or drugs.

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Chouinard to boost education in the arts


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By SUZANNE MUCHNIC Times Staff Writer CITY ARTS: Chouinard will hold dasses in city recreation centers beginning with the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center. morphcd into CalArts in Vale n . . Last month, foundation ran a pilot program organixed by artist Do. Kouyias, with the help of other artists Mduding Gilbert Lujan and Wei Co -- at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Con, munity C,enter. The is first phase of the new program expected to begin in late fall at the centoot multipurpose facility in a former swimming stadium. Belinda Jackson, executive director of the center, is facilitating grant applications. Regan said that plans call for expanding the model Mto the department's Clean and Safe Space, or CLASS, program, designed to help teenagers at risk in 47 centers throughout the.city. We have dedicated teen dubs in these centers, he said. "Why not have Chouinand come M, teach the kids art techniqua, maybe have them decorate their Mil dubs and godf fro: If savzdonue, ki m there, gett in gwe invo gangs or turning their life to drugs, and if somebody who gets turned on in this program makes a good, life-changing decision, we have done a good th . g7 suumne.mudminglatimes.com
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Th ree month s after d osing i. art school in South Pasadena, citing insufficient funds and student interest, the Chouinarcl Foundation has formed a partnership with thc City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks to provide art education for the city, you.. Under the terms of an agreement approved by department commissioners Thursday and expected to be endorsed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the foundation . conduct dosses and bring visiting artists to public mereation centers that have offered little or no art instruction. No new city ftmds will be allocated to the program, said Kevin Regan, assistant general manager of the department The city will provide space in

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f aci lities. sap, staff and art materials, he said. The department and the foundation oUt wodt together to obtain private fun.ng for classes and spaial projects. "This . be free-form of education with drawMg and painting as the base, said David Totuje, executive director of the foundation. The highlight, he said,. be visits from accomplished artists who share their eimertise and will insight into processes of creative expressioo Regan said he conceived of the partnership aRer reading about the dosure of the Chouinard School of Art, a modect reincamation of a LA. college that dosed in 1972. Partially hmded by Walt Disney, the original school eventually

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