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MOTION BY SUPERVISORS HILDA L. SOLIS AND MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS <br />OCTOBER 27, 2015 <br />PAGE 3 <br />project has met with enthusiasm from its grantees as well as partners at major <br />philanthropies, who are all eager to work together to address challenges and share best <br />practices for this issue." <br />In its most recent annual report on the status of the arts in Los Angeles, the Otis <br />School of Design noted that the Los Angeles Region is the creative capital of the state <br />as well as the nation, with one out of every seven jobs in the County being generated <br />from an arts -related field. The 2014 Otis Report on the Creative Economy found that <br />there are almost 200,000 people working in 79 creative occupations in the <br />County. Nearly half of these creative occupations in the County require less than a <br />four-year college degree. These findings highlight the importance of opening up job <br />opportunities in the arts to a wider demographic and including arts instruction in all of <br />our schools. Currently, Arts for All, the County's initiative dedicated to making the arts <br />core in K-12 public education, works with 59 out of 81 school districts within the County. <br />There are a number of "promising practices" to encourage individuals from <br />underrepresented communities to enter the arts as a career and have a pipeline to <br />leadership positions. The County's annual Arts Internship Program, coordinated by the <br />Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Getty Foundation, provides nearly 250 <br />undergraduate interns with meaningful on-the-job training and experiences at the <br />leading arts institutions in Los Angeles, while also developing future arts leaders to <br />serve in staff positions, as board members and leaders in nonprofit and civic arts <br />organizations. The program is the largest paid arts internship program in the country. In <br />addition, foundation -funded programs like the pilot program of undergraduate curatorial <br />fellowships at a number of museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, <br />open museums as potential workplaces to students belonging to historically <br />underrepresented minority groups. <br />Indeed, as demographics change, diversifying audiences is another challenge; <br />one which may well be the key to future sustainability of many arts institutions. As the <br />2014 James Irvine Foundation -funded report called "Making Meaningful Connections" <br />65B-108 <br />