deb3321 is very pleased to have Linda Vallejo return to the studio to present a comprehensive, 31/2 hour workshop based on her outstanding and recognized "A-Z Grantwriting with Linda Vallejo."  The session will include an in-classroom lunch to engage students in a question and answer period.

 

Students will:

• Study the Individual Artist Grant Package materials including resume, work samples, artist statement, bio, and budget  

• Engage in a detailed discussion on how to write an Artist Statement

• Read and Study a sample Individual Artist Grant Application

• Learn the steps needed to write grants for non-profit organizations

• Learn how to collaborate with non-profit “fiscal agents” to plan and present programs

 

 

Linda Vallejo has over thirty years of experience as a development consultant, grantwriter and grantwriting instructor. Over the past nineteen years, she has served as an on-line grantwriting instructor with Education to Go in over 2,500 colleges and  universities nationwide. She has written and received over $30 million in grant funds from foundation, corporate, government and individual donors for her many clients nationwide.  Presently she serves as a grantwriting consultant for 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA. For the past four years she has also served as a visiting grantwriting instructor for Otis School of Art and Design Public Practice MFA Program in Los Angeles, California. 

 

Ms. Vallejo began her work in the non-profit sector as an artist and art teacher with Self Help Graphics, a non-profit arts organization in Los Angeles, California. She is a practicing, professional artist exhibiting her art nationally and internationally.   Vallejo was included in The California/International Arts Foundation’s L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980 and the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980 in two exhibitions, Mapping Another LA: The Chicano Art Movement at the UCLA Fowler Museum, and Doin’ It in Public: Art and Feminism at the Woman’s Building at the Otis College of Art and Design Ben Maltz Gallery.  A solo exhibition of her newest work Make ‘Em All Mexican will open at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History in September 2014, and has been presented at the Soto Clemente Velez Cultural Center in New York (2014), George Lawson Gallery in Los Angeles and the University Art Gallery of New Mexico State University (2013), Arte Americas/Fresno Art Museum and Central California Museum of Art Advisory Committee and California State University, San Bernardino, Fullerton Museum (2012). 

 

Vallejo is represented by the George Lawson Gallery in San Francisco, California.  

 

Ms. Vallejo's websites:  http://www.lindavallejo.com and http://www.atozgrantwriting.com.