Grantee Database
JAIL GUITAR DOORS
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$19,246.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Jail Guitar Doors (JGD) will create a multi-discipline project celebrating evolving expressions entitled “Queer Liberation Series & Exhibition.” Curated by five LGBTQIA+ artists within our community, the project includes a free culminating public performance, short documentary, and art exhibition at JGD’s CAPO Center located in Hollywood, CA.
The project will provide resources to develop an original performance piece and exhibition that celebrates the healing, stabilization, uplifting and transformation of the LGBTQIA+ community. Through workshops led by gay icons and legends in the drag, ballroom, and punk communities, participants will explore historically groundbreaking music, art, fashion, and movement disciplines rooted in the expression of queer identity. Visual arts curation, including photography of the ballroom workshops, will be supported by local gender expansive and non-conforming artists who specialize in building exhibitions.
Organization Summary
JGD provides music education programs for current and potential system-involved youth. The two main programs include Songs and Beats Workshops and Community Arts Programming & Outreach (CAPO) Project. Songs and Beats is a 12-week songwriting workshop for incarcerated youth that Weekly prompts are focused on age-appropriate themes that are designed to help youth heal past traumas, learn to positively experience their emotions, and improve their relationships with others as well as themselves. CAPO was created as an extension of JGD’s Songs and Beats Workshop to support youths’ successful return to their community. Not solely for formerly justice-involved youth, CAPO is an originative reentry and diversion program that is also open to marginalized and at-risk youth ages 12-22. CAPO delves beyond the 12-week workshop to gain a comprehensive working knowledge of the many facets of the music and entertainment industry. Classes and workshops include music production, engineering, composition and arranging, recording and editing, licensing, marketing and promotions, and digital design. At CAPO, each participant will have a mentor who will help them develop a Personal Program Log (PPL) with an Individual Service Plan (ISP) and Individual Program Plan (IPP). Together, these tools create a holistic approach that include well-being, probation, life-skills, emotional support, transportation plan, and any plans for therapy/sobriety to support youth in successful completion of their probation and reaching their individual goals.
Taught by music industry professionals, youth have the opportunity to develop mastery in their chosen fields of interest. JGD also fosters relationships within its extensive network to create an advisory board of music and entertainment industry professionals to serve as mentors to assist in CAPO participants in entering the field through internships that provide hands-on working experience.
Prior musical training is not required. Programs are open to all races, denominations, genders, and sexual orientation.
Organization
Jail Guitar Doors - USA
Address
842 N FAIRFAX 2ND FLOOR
LOS ANGELES
90046-7208
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(323) 852-0457
Congressional District
California's 28th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 50
State Senate District
District 26
