The City of West Hollywood invites the community to participate in one of several drop-in community conversations, led by AEA Consulting, to discuss a West Hollywood Art Project for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Community conversations will take place on Monday, November 11, 2024 and Monday, November 18, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Helen Albert Certified Farmers’ Market at Plummer Park, located at 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard. There will also be a drop-in community conversation on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the West Hollywood Day 40th Anniversary of Cityhood event from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theatre in the Green Building, located at 8687 Melrose Avenue. Additional engagement opportunities will be announced on engage.weho.org.
People who live, work, and play in West Hollywood are encouraged to drop-in and join City of West Hollywood Drag Laureate Pickle and Poet Laurate Jen Cheng at one of the interactive community conversations to help shape the cultural experiences West Hollywood will develop for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Participants will help co-create a concept designed to connect the community’s priorities and elevate the Games in West Hollywood to inspire an arts tradition that reflects the City’s spirit and will resonate for years to come.
The Art Project could take the form of an arts and cultural event, experience, and/or activity. By engaging in a visioning exercise, the City will have time to develop ideas and perspectives for an experience that will spark dialogue, ignite imaginations, and leave a lasting impression on all who attend during the Games.
AEA Consulting is a leader in the planning and delivery of a wide variety of cultural and creative spaces, including cultural districts, mixed-use developments, museums and galleries, performance spaces, multi-disciplinary spaces, parks, and heritage sites. AEA Consulting will establish a plan (purpose, goals, and vision) for the West Hollywood Art Project during the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles in coordination with the City of West Hollywood’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, lead community meetings to solicit feedback and input, and provide updates to other City Commissions and Advisory Boards. The consultant will engage creators and curators in the development of the plan and will provide recommendations for the duration of the Art Project. The team AEA Consulting team is led by Laura Zucker, Senior Associate, who is a nationally recognized arts leader whose expertise spans grant making, cultural equity, cultural policy, capital project master planning, arts education, public art, cultural tourism, management, and funding strategies, and was executive director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission (now Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture) for 25 years; and, Bella Stenvall, Research Analyst, who is invested in embedding arts and culture into the choreography of public life as a means of social change. Stenvall applies an interdisciplinary approach to strategy development, qualitative research design, and date analysis, all while integrating her own experiences as a dancer, choreographer, and creative collaborator and centering values of equity and inclusion.
The City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division delivers a broad array of arts programs including Art on the Outside (temporary public art), Arts Grants, City Poet Laureate, Drag Laureate, Free Theatre in the Parks, Human Rights Speakers Series, Library Exhibits, WeHo Pride Arts Festival, Summer Sounds + Winter Sounds, Urban Art (permanent public art), and WeHo Reads. For more information about City of West Hollywood arts programming, please visit www.weho.org/arts.
For more information about the West Hollywood Art Project for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, please contact Rebecca Ehemann, City of West Hollywood Arts Manager, at (323) 848-6846 or at rehemann@weho.org. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.
