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. This mission grew out of our founding dream: to create a vibrant, neighborhood arts center committed to education and community-building through the arts.
The Golden Globe Foundation grant supports our in-depth Advanced Studies Filmmaking programs. Diverse low-income youth from across Los Angeles learn sophisticated story- telling, develop technological and digital literacy skills through filmmaking workshops, receive 1:1 college and career mentoring, and are given access to opportunities for paid internships in the film industry.
Our new Center for Creative Workforce Equity supports a growing roster of creative career development programs for young people. The programs range from exposure to career pathways to education and state-registered pre-apprenticeship training in visual storytelling. In a radical rethinking of how to build equity and opportunity, young people are supported to fully commit to their education by being compensated while they learn.
