The Department of Cultural Affairs is accepting applications for its Individual Master Artist Project Grant Program.
Donor Name: City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
State: California
County: Los Angeles County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/06/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The COLA IMAP Grant Program allows accomplished artists to create a new mid-career solo work with the freedom to re-focus on themselves and their core impulses. The COLA-IMAP grant category honors a spectrum of the City avant-garde artists who:
- Are dedicated to an ongoing body of excellent work.
- Represent a relevant progression through their pieces or series over the past 15 years (or 8 years for a dancer-choreographer).
- Exemplify a generation of core ideas in their field.
- Are respected by their peers and are role models for other artists because of their distinguished record.
Approximately 6-12 COLA IMAP grant-contracts will be offered for designers/visual artists (including architects, graphic designers, and product designers including fashion designers), literary artists (poets or fiction writers) and performing artists (including choreographers who wish to make and perform individual dance works, musicians who wish to compose and perform individual music works, and multi-disciplinary theater artists who wish to invent and perform solo works).
Grant Period
- $10,000 is available for Individual Master Artist Project Grant Program.
- Grant activity/projects will place between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
Competitive applicants are:
- Individual artists or independent duos, who are professional masters of self-evolved ideas (not curators, presenters, or interpreters of other artists works, and not artists who have primarily built their credentials within collaborative groups or within social practices) If the art practice involves groups, interactivity with a specific type of person, or is conceptualized to be sited in a self-selected place, then please apply to DCA NEAR grant (Neighborhood Engagement Artists Residency). Proposed projects are deemed INELIGIBLE if they: are collaboratively made, and interactive with the audiences or other artists (but not including technicians or fabricators).
- Current residents of Los Angeles County, who also demonstrate on their resumes that they either live in the City of Los Angeles or have a 3 or more-year history of presenting work in the City of Los Angeles.
- Professionals who illustrate on their resume at least 15 years (8 years for choreographer-dancers) of a progressive, ongoing exhibition, publication, or performance record. This may include post-secondary student presentations and does not need to be 15 (or 8) consecutive years.
For more information, visit CLADCA.
