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The Art and Artifact Collection Office is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 am to 5 pm by appointment. Please note that AAC exhibits and collections are available year-round.
The phone number is 213-742-8351. The email address is leslie.fischer@lausd.net.
The AAC Office is located at 1330 W. Pico Blvd., Room 288, Los Angeles, CA 90015.
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 Venice High School, 1937-1938
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The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, 1746
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Comptometer, "Shoebox" Adding Machine, H-Model, circa 1920
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Raymond Nott, California Landscape, detail, oil on canvas, circa 1924
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Los Angeles Unified School District Map, detail, 1973-1974
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Miguel de Cervantes. The History of Don Quixote, Illustrated by Gustave Dore, gifted to George Washington High School by Ernest Dawson in 1934
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Spotlight on...The LAUSD Art and Artifact Collection
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Two Grants Awarded to the LAUSD Art and Artifact Collection
The AAC has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Preservation Assistance of its Audio Visual Education Section Photo Collection. Funds will allow the AAC staff to re-house 34,000 black and white negatives that document LAUSD's institutional, instructional and architectural history into archival quality sleeves and greatly extend their lifespan. This project has been designated by the NEH as a "We the People Project" because it encourages and strengthens the teaching, study and understanding of American history and culture, explores significant events and themes in our nation's history, and advances the knowledge of the principles that define America.
We are also proud to announce a grant from the University of Southern California's International Museum Institute for the "I Dig Museums" program. A partnership with the USC Archaeology Research Center, this project will fund the cutting-edge, high resolution photo documentation of LAUSD's antiquities, inclusion of these images in the InscriptiFact database, training of USC Archaeology students to serve as docent ambassadors in LAUSD classrooms and the creation of curricular materials by USC students for LAUSD 6th graders. For more information, go to the Instructional Programs tab.
Take Your Elementary Students on a Journey to the Past (Without Leaving The School Yard)...
...by studying the history of their own school and surrounding neighborhood. Linda Kidd, NBCT, and Leslie Fischer, AAC Curator, will lead a salary point class in October and November on methods and materials for Designing a Local History Project for Elementary Students.
Share the Treasures of LAUSD History with your Students with a New Hands-on Traveling Exhibit
A new educational resource is available for teachers and students, grades 3-8. The portable exhibit called "LAUSD: A Legacy of Learning" utilizes artifacts from LAUSD's Art and Artifact Collection to provide a hands-on learning experience. A Teachers' Guide that adheres to California state instructional standards complements the treasure chest. Please email leslie.fischer@lausd.net for more information.
Come See Some Interesting Exhibits about the History of Teaching and Learning at LAUSD...
...at the Beaudry Building headquarters 15th and 24th floors. Follow this link or click the Exhibits & Projects tab in the upper left corner of this site for more information.
The New Deal is the Real Deal at LAUSD
The Art and Artifact Collection is teaming up with "California's Living New Deal," a project of U.C. Berkeley and the California Historical Society, to research and document WPA and other New Deal-era buildings and works of art. LAUSD has wonderful examples of both, many of which were completed after the devastating Long Beach earthquake of 1933. If you want to know about how your own school might have been a part of this effort, or if you would like to become involved in the project, please email leslie.fischer@lausd.net.
Coming Soon to a Mausoleum Near You
The Antiquities Road Show! The Art and Artifact Collection has an amazing collection of ancient and classical artifacts, including Greek ceramics, cuneiform tablets, Roman coins, and even a pair of 2,000-year old booties. The AAC is working with UCLA-trained Classicist/Indo-Europeanist Moss Pike, who teaches at Harvard-Westlake Middle School, to develop lessons and projects using these ancient objects. The USC Archaeology Lab and the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa are also lining up as collaborators. If you would like to learn more, contact leslie.fischer@lausd.net for information.
Is Your School Celebrating an Anniversary?
The Art and Artifact Collection may have photographs, yearbooks or other memorabilia to loan or digitize to support your project. It can also help connect you with other schools that have organized comparable events in the past. And if you are digging up treasures through your own research at school-site museums and archives or with alumni, past faculty and students, the Art and Artifact Collection would love to get copies to preserve and share your work for future generations.
Granada Elementary School's Principal Cindy van Houten organized a celebration for the school's 80th anniversary.
Students, families, alumni and community members helped mark this occasion.
Retired Teacher or Administrator? Extra Time on your Hands? Want to Get Back into the Classroom, or just Recall Fond Memories?
We can use you! The Art and Artifact Collection has many volunteer opportunities for meaningful re-engagement with the LAUSD community. Please contact the Curator at leslie.fischer@lausd.net.
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What the Heck is Sloyd?
If you're not from Scandinavia, or didn't happen to have graduated Los Angeles City Schools in, say, the 1890's, you may not have heard of this highly influential manual arts curriculum. First systematically developed as "Veisto" by the Finnish "Father of the Primary School" Uno Cygnaeus in a school reform proposal to Tsar' Alexander II (Finland belonged to Russia at the time) called Strodda Tankar (that's: Stray Thoughts on the Intended Primary Schools in Finland), based on his observations of Eskimos as a chaplain for a trading company in Alaska (yes, Alaska was theirs too), where he was temporarily exiled for certain improprieties, this integrated program of woodwork, paper-folding, weaving and needlework spread like lichen throughout the Arctic Circle, and the Swedes for some reason renamed it Sloyd. John Dewey's pragmatist pedagogy effectively replaced Sloyd in the palimpsest of American educational history, and most people since then have simply called it "shop."
 
Report Card from 1896-7, listing Sloyd as a subject (left, w/ magnified and rotated inset). Sloyd Worktable (right, image courtesy of Sherri Salmans)
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Department Description
The AAC is part of the Arts Education Branch, a division of Instructional Support Services.
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LAUSD Resources
Non-LAUSD Resources
- LA as Subject is an alliance of research archives, libraries and collections dedicated to preserving the history of the Los Angeles region.
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