Venice Arts
Venice Arts’ mission is to ignite, expand, and transform the lives of Los Angeles’ low-income youth through photography and film education, and to use our participatory storytelling practices to amplify the voices of underrepresented communities around the world.
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CREATE ·2024 Grants ChallengeThe Center for Creative Workforce Equity (CCWE)
Grant funds will support our Center for Creative Workforce Equity (CCWE) programs emphasizing experiential and project-based learning for low-income young people, so that they may pursue interests, explore opportunities, and realize their creative career aspirations. Technical skills training is rooted in creative storytelling, and our pedagogy places particular value on supporting individual voices and experiences. Our goal is to place at least 60% of graduates in paid internships or jobs.
- CREATE ·2022 Grants Challenge
The Center for Creative Workforce Equity (The Center)
Grants funds will sustain & expand our new Center for Creative Workforce equity Film & Digital Media (F&DM) program, piloted in 2021 and refined in 2022. In this program, low-income youth of color, current and former foster youth, justice-involved and/or LGBTQ youth receive training in the creative industry skills needed for internships and first jobs. In a radical rethinking of how to build equity and opportunity in the arts and entertainment, young people are supported to fully commit to their education by being compensated while they learn.
- CREATE ·2021 Grants Challenge
Creative Pathways
Grants funds will support the integration of our existing Creative Pathways (CP) college and career readiness activities with our new Film & Digital Media Pilot (F&DM) program. In this program, low-income youth of color, current and former foster youth, justice-involved and/or LGBTQ youth receive training in the creative industry skills needed for internships and first jobs. We hope that by helping young people overcome systemic barriers to entry, they will be empowered to find career success diversifying the voices in LA’s creative workforce.