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The mission of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is to advance arts, culture, and creativity throughout LA County. We fulfill our mission by providing services and support in areas including grants and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations; professional development opportunities; commissioning civic artworks and managing the County’s civic art collection; implementing countywide arts education initiatives; research and evaluation; career pathways in the creative economy; free community programs; and cross sector creative strategies that address civic issues. This work is framed by the County’s Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative and a longstanding commitment to fostering access to the arts.

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Poppies - X - 3 - A to C

Artist: Garten, Cliff

Date: 2008

Medium: Ultra chrome ink on cotton paper

Artwork Dimensions: 15 x 14 in.

County Department: Public Health

Artwork Site: Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Public Health

Supervisorial District: 2

Current Status: On view

About the Artist:

Cliff Garten is a Venice-based artist and landscape architect who has created artwork for numerous public art agencies including the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Fort Worth Public Art Program and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles. Garten has also created public art master plans for the City of Calgary (Canada) and the Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Department. Garten received his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and his Master of Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Garten is the recipient of two Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation Fellowship for Individual Artists, the Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship and the Jerome Foundation Travelling Artist Grant.

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