Key points about Linda Vallejo
Dual Expertise:
Possesses deep understanding of both the non-profit landscape and the art world, allowing her to provide comprehensive guidance to clients from diverse backgrounds.
Goal-Oriented Approach:
Focuses on helping clients clearly define their objectives and then create actionable plans to reach them.
Strategic Planning:
Skilled in facilitating strategic planning processes for organizations and artists to identify key priorities and allocate resources efficiently.
Extensive Experience:
Her long-standing career in both non-profit consulting and artistic practice provides valuable insights and real-world experience.
NPO Trainer& Consultant, and Artist Coach
Linda Vallejo has decades of experience as a nonprofit administrator, trainer, and consultant. She is also an artist with a professional career that spans five decades who works with artists in all disciplines to advance their career goals.
She has experience in all aspects of administrative office duties including program development and expansion, donor communications and partnership building; evaluation, tracking and reporting systems; budgets, financial records and reporting; and implementing grant writing campaigns to corporate and foundation funding sources.
Currently she is working with Communities Create, a mental health arts-based nonprofit organization in Los Angeles. She has served as a consultant for Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA; 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, CA: and the Nevada Ballet Theatre, Las Vegas, among many others.
She served as a grant writing trainer for Loyola Marymount University “Non-Profit Fundraising Certificate Program” and for Otis School of Art and Design “Public Practice MFA Program,” Los Angeles, CA.
Vallejo is represented by parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, and is a National Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awardee.
Vallejo began her work in the nonprofit sector as an artist and art teacher with Self Help Graphics, a nonprofit arts organization in Los Angeles, California in 1977.
How Linda Vallejo can help:
Non-profit Organizations:
Develop fundraising strategies
Improve grant writing skills
Enhance program design and evaluation
Build community partnerships
Strengthen board governance
Individual Artists:
Identify funding opportunities
Craft artist statements and proposals
Build a professional brand
Navigate the art market
Develop marketing and outreach plans
Linda Vallejo, Artist
Represented by parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, CA.
Selected solo exhibitions include parrasch heijnen gallery, Los Angeles, (2024), the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, CSU San Bernardino, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles(2019-2020); bG Gallery, Santa Monica (2017); Texas A&M University Reynolds Gallery (2016); Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, Ill, and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles CA (2015); Lancaster Museum of Art and History in Lancaster CA (2017 & 2014); the Soto Clemente Velez Cultural Center, New York (2014), George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, and the New Mexico State University Art Gallery (2013).
Permanent collections include the AltaMed Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA, Eileen Harris-Norton Collection, Santa Monica, CA, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA, , the Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, East Los Angeles College Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago Ill, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, CA, UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), Santa Barbara, CA, UCLA Chicano Study Research Center (CSRC), Los Angeles, CA.
2024 Bibliography includes Artillery Magazine, Linda Vallejo’s Extraordinary Vision: A new exhibition at parrasch heijnen showcases five decades of the artist’s work, The Art Newspaper, The Judith Center, a new Los Angeles art space focuses on the experiences of women, Financial Times, Curator Pablo José Ramírez: ‘Art history doesn’t belong exclusively to the western world', New York Times, At Los Angeles Galleries, Savoring the Waning Days of Summer, FRIEZE LONDON, ‘Smoke’: Christine Howard Sandoval and Linda Vallejo, At Frieze London 2024, parrasch heijnen presents a dual exhibition that explores the cultural memory of communities and lands, Yale University Press, All These Liberations: Women Artist in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection edited by Taylor Renee Aldridge, and University of Arizona Press, Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis.
