AMOUNT
$10,000
GRANTING ORGANIZATION
Department of Cultural Affairs
DEADLINE
October 30, 2020
STATUS
Closed
CONTACT
Email Grants Division
213-202-5566
OVERVIEW
The COLA Individual Artist Fellowship allows accomplished artists to create new work with increased freedom to innovate and experiment. The Fellowship Program grant category honors a spectrum of the City’s most creative artists who:
- Are dedicated to an ongoing body of excellent work.
- Represent a relevant progression through their pieces or series.
- 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 Fellowships will be offered for designers/visual artists (including architects, graphic designers and product designers such as 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).
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) will organize a museum exhibition, a performing arts showcase, and/or an online catalog to document and market the selected artists and their new works as one cross-section of the exciting Los Angeles art scene.
ELIGIBILITY
Successful applicants are:
- Individual artists or an independent duos, who are professional masters of self-evolved ideas (not curators, presenters, or interpreters of other artists’ works).
- 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.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM WORKSHOPS
A series of online webinar workshops will be available from late September through early October. Webinar space is limited to 30 participants per webinar, and RSVPs are required at least two business days in advance.
Workshops/webinars link: https://dcaredesign.org/cola/workshop-schedule/
APPLICATION TIMELINE
- Opens Friday, September 25, 2020
- Deadline to apply is October 30, 2020
- Grant activity/projects will place between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022
- May/June 2021: Applicants will receive notification of results
GUIDELINES & APPLICATION:
For full program information, please review the program guidelines available at: https://dcaredesign.org/cola/. After you have reviewed the guidelines, please proceed to prepare and submit an application at https://dca-la.smapply.org/.