More Than $1 Million Awarded to Los Angeles Artists and Art Organizations by California Community Foundation

Thirteen Los Angeles Artists Awarded $15,000 Fellowships

Los Angeles — The California Community Foundation recently awarded $1,172,211 to 13 individual artists and 24 arts organizations located in Los Angeles County.

More than 200 Los Angeles artists applied for funding through the foundation’s Visual Arts Initiative. After an extremely competitive peer-review process, eight highly accomplished mid-career artists and five emerging artists who show tremendous potential were each awarded $15,000 fellowships.

Additionally, 24 arts organizations received grants ranging from $7,250 to $60,000 to support their visual arts programs. These organizations are located in communities throughout Los Angeles, including Long Beach, Santa Monica, Venice, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, North Hollywood, Woodland Hills and Downtown Los Angeles.

“The community foundation is one of the few local supporters of Los Angeles artists and arts organizations,” said Antonia Hernández, president & CEO of the California Community Foundation. “We believe that art, and the experience of art, strengthens communities by transcending social, political and economic barriers in ways words cannot.”

The Visual Arts Initiative is designed to nurture and support the work of Los Angeles area artists and arts organizations while reflecting the diversity and richness of the many unique communities that make up this region.

Since 2001, the community foundation has distributed $555,000 to outstanding emerging and mid-career artists and close to $2.8 million to visual arts organizations and small theater companies.

A juried panel of local artists, curators and academics in the arts selected this year’s individual artist winners. The community foundation defines a mid-career artist as an established artist who has seven or more years of active, professional participation in his or her field, and an emerging artist as having fewer than seven years of professional experience in his or her field.

Funds for the California Community Foundation’s Visual Arts Initiative are provided by the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, the Brody Arts Fund and other foundation funds.

Established in 1915, the California Community Foundation is one of the largest and most active philanthropic organizations in Southern California, with assets of more than $750 million. In partnership with its donors, the foundation supports nonprofit organizations and public institutions with funds for health and human services, affordable housing, early childhood education, community arts and culture and other areas of need.