At the July 14, 2022 Arts and Culture Commission meeting, the Commission voted to approve Cultural Affairs staff recommendations for partial funding of proposals in the 2022-2023 grant cycle. Grants of up to $9,500 were awarded to 26 individual artists and arts and culture organizations based on evaluation panel scores and available funding for the fiscal year. Access summaries of the grants here: 2022-2023 Annual Grants Program Awards
Arts and Cultural Affairs News
No Boundaries Program
Arts Commission selected artworks from 2021 PUSD’s district-wide student exhibition “No Boundaries”
Public Art Site Improvement
Public Art Site Improvement Presentation
Rotating Public Art Program Phase III Podcasts
Pasadena’s Public Art Program has collaborated with Side Street Projects and Pasadena’s Complete Streets Coalition to develop podcasts with the artists featured in Phase III of the Rotating Public Art Exhibition Program. This project was developed as a part of the City’s participation and sponsorship of Bike Month. Given the Complete Streets Coalition’s suspension of group tours for the time being, we teamed up to create new programming that may be experienced broadly and safely via technology. The podcasts are...
Letter from Rochelle Branch to the Arts and Culture Community
Dear Pasadena Arts & Culture Community: Cultural Affairs has already been in touch with many of you regarding your current Annual Grants Program awards. We are grateful that so many of you have responded with information about your ability to either defer your project in full or in part to the next fiscal year, when, we are all hopeful that this pestilence has passed. There are so many sources of information being updated daily about resources for small business loans,...
Rotating Program Phase III Dedication
Mayor Terry Tornek and Councilmember Gene Masuda welcomed the community to join them in dedicating Phase III of the Rotating Public Art Exhibition Program on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 10:00 am. The event took place at the intersection of Sierra Madre Boulevard & Sierra Madre Villa Avenue in District 4, where Karen Reitzel’s artwork Calm a Little Soul is sited. More than 60 members of the community came out to celebrate with the participating artists, including the Arts & Culture Commissioners...
Dedication Event - All are welcome to attend!
All are welcome to attend!
Film and Event Monitors
OPPORTUNITY! The City of Pasadena is looking for Film Monitors! The Request for Proposals is now posted on Planet Bids. The due date for proposals is Tuesday, June 12th. For bid details and instructions to submit a proposal, please click on link below: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=14770# Then click on “Bid Opportunities” and type “Film and Event Monitors” in the keyword search to see the bid details and instructions.
Film and Event Monitors
OPPORTUNITY! The City of Pasadena is looking for Film Monitors! The Request for Proposals is now posted on Planet Bids. The due date for proposals is Tuesday, June 12th. For bid details and instructions to submit a proposal, please click on link below: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=14770# Then click on “Bid Opportunities” and type “Film and Event Monitors” in the keyword search to see the bid details and instructions.
My Pasadena – NEA Our Town Funded Projects
The City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, along with partner Side Street Projects , is the proud recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town public art project award. Pasadena’s project for the Civic Center: My Pasadena will create a continuous series of events and changing artworks from September 2015-September 2016, transforming the Civic Center area into a creative, vibrant public forum and expanding community awareness of and relevance to the contemporary role of government. For a full...