Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE), that operates Arts High, has been granted $24 million in state bond funds from Proposition 1D to build a 40,000-square-foot facility for the school on the campus of California State University Los Angeles.
Located adjacent to the base of the parking structure across from the Luckman Theatre and the Music Building, the three-story building will feature 22 classrooms and arts studios, offices for administrators and counselors, and a black box theatre with an adjoining scene shop. Designed by HMC Architects, the building has already won the Leroy F. Greene Award for Excellence in Design of a Planned Building from the Coalition for Adequate School Housing.
Working together, LACOE and the Arts High Foundation submitted an application for $1.5 million in funding from California’s Career Technical Education Facilities Program to fully equip the black box theatre and add an enclosed scene shop and outdoor amphitheatre. This would enable Arts High to add Stagecraft Technology to its theatre curriculum as a major within the department. If given final approval in August 2008, the Foundation will have until February 2010 to raise $1.5 million in matching funds.
Groundbreaking for the new facility is scheduled to begin in early 2009 with completion scheduled for June 30, 2010. Classes will open there in the fall of 2010.
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