The J. Paul Getty Trust released figures estimating the overall economic impact in Southern California of Pacific Standard Time to include $280.5 million while it supported 2,490 jobs and generated $19.4 million in state and local taxes.

Last month, Americans for the Arts released the Arts & Economic Prosperity IV study, which shows Los Angeles’s nonprofit arts community supports 37,000 jobs and generates $1.38 billion of activity in the local economy.

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission announced $4.1 million in grants to 175 arts groups throughout the county last week.

Grants range in size from $3,500 to $223,700 and fund organizations in forty-one of Los Angeles County’s 88 municipalities.  Through this program, funding from the Arts Commission will serve an estimated ten million people through July 2013.

According to a bulletin from Americans for the Arts Action Fund, the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Interior Subcommittee included a reduction of $14 million to the National Endowment for the Arts budget in their FY 2013 funding legislation.

Four Los Angeles creative placemaking projects have received $1.5 million in grants from ArtPlace, a coalition of private arts funders, government agencies, and banks.  The projects are funded among forty-seven new awards representing $15.4 million in arts funding and represent nearly 10% of ArtPlace’s giving this year.

The National Endowment for the Arts announced yesterday it would award $250,000 in grants to support research projects investigating the value and impact of the arts in the United States.  This is the first time the NEA’s Office of Research & Analysis has awarded grants in the organization’s forty-seven year history.

Charlie Jensen blogs about how Angelenos promote trust by gathering in public spaces.

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) invites you to attend a public meeting that will provide an update on the Broadway Arts Center, a planned facility providing subsidized affordable artists' housing, rehearsal/exhibition space, and creative business space as part of City Councilmember José Huizar's Bringing Back Broadway initiative.

On May 8, the Santa Monica City Council added an “arts and culture” goal area to its Sustainable City Plan, becoming the first city in California to include cultural indicators as part of an overall evaluation of sustainability. 

Through inclusion of this goal area, Santa Monica resolves to: