Programs

  • Poet/Artist Development Program

    The Poet/Artist Development Program served up to 15 Emerging Poet/Artists, providing direct mentorship and guidance in workforce development-related skills specifically relevant to working artists. This program offered approximately 750 hours of mentorship after undergoing extensive restructuring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this program introduced our Teaching Artist Internship for program participants, and also launched our new DSTL Arts-cast, a podcast featuring emerging artists from across our programs, particularly focusing on showcasing our emerging poet/artists from the Poet/Artist Development Program.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022
    Source
    990
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    $26.4K

  • Conchas y Café Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop

    Conchas y Café Zine is the product of our Conchas y Café Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop Series for Adults, offered virtually for FY2022. This triennial, 12-week series provides instruction in literary concepts and techniques to participants and publishes their creative writing at the culmination of each series of workshops. For FY2022, this program produced 3 new publications, with 3 accompanying public readings, serving approximately 400 individuals across all workshop sessions, readings, and publication distribution. Furthermore, this was accomplished entirely online, utilizing various virtual platforms for instruction, including Google Classroom and YouTube for hosting recorded lessons.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022
    Source
    990
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    $20.7K

  • Art Block and Aurtistic Zine Publications

    Art Block Zine and Aurtistic Zine are annual, sister publications that feature Emerging Poet/Artists from both Los Angeles County and nationwide, respectively. Both publications have ongoing open calls for submission from individuals, and each publication seeks to highlight the works of individuals from historically-marginalized and underserved populations. In FY2022, our publications released 3 total new publications, and managed to serve approximately 100 individuals through publication and participation as either featured artists or audience members at the 3 total public readings offered (virtually). Additionally, approximately an additional 100 individuals watched the recorded readings on the DSTL Arts YouTube channel throughout FY2022. Furthermore, our DSTL Arts-cast podcast has been rebranded as the Art Block podcast and is now published under the banner of this program.
    Geographies
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
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    $19.9K