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19/6/2000

The Getty Grant Program

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission have announced that they will jointly award over $1 million for visual, performing, and literary arts internships throughout Los Angeles County this summer. These funds have been awarded to 150 organizations to support 301 arts internships for college undergraduates. Together, the Getty and the County seek to introduce young people to a variety of arts-related careers and help develop future cultural leaders.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke noted "Our new Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program is a landmark in the development of the County as a leading presence in the arts world. Our new program, along with the Getty Grant Program, is now making it possible for students to obtain leadership training in all the arts, from the fine arts to the performing arts. I understand the two programs together make this the largest arts internship program in the country. We're determined to make sure it is also the best."

The Getty's Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program for the visual arts, now in its eighth year, was the model for the new County program, approved and funded by the Board of Supervisors in September 1999, and administered by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. This County program was designed to work in parallel to the Getty program by providing opportunities in the performing and literary arts. As part of the partnership the Getty will convene joint educational and networking activities for the interns.

Los Angeles host organizations receiving support include El Pueblo Park Association, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Pacific Asia Museum, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA; Los Angeles Opera, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, PEN Center USA West, and The Actors' Gang.

For information for visual arts internships, go to the Getty Web site
for performing and literary arts internships, go to the County Web site at http://www.lacountyarts.org/internops.html
TO CONTACT THE GETTY GRANT PROGRAM
The Getty Grant Program 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1685 U.S.A.
Phone 310 440.7320 Fax 310 440.7703

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