LA Arts Recovery Fund awards grants totaling $36.1 million
The LA Arts Recovery Fund has announced grants totaling $36.1 million in support of small and midsize arts and cultural organizations in Southern California.
Launched in February by the J. Paul Getty Trust and administered by the California Community Foundation, the fund awarded flexible, multiyear operating, technical assistance, and capacity-building grants to ninety organizations of exceptional local or regional local significance. Selected by a community review panel, the organizations — 71 percent of which were founded or are led by Black, Latinx, Asian, or Indigenous leaders or have a majority BIPOC board — will receive grants ranging between $5,000 and $2 million over a period of two to three years.
Recipients include seventeen organizations that are part of the America's Cultural Treasures initiative led by the Ford Foundation. They include East West Players and the Japanese American National Museum, which received multiyear grants in 2020 through the national initiative and will receive two-year grants from the fund. The other fifteen grantees were awarded three-year grants ranging between $64,000 and $2 million as part of the regional component of the initiative; they include the Amazing Grace Conservatory, Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Latino Theater Company, the Music Circle, and Self Help Graphics & Art.
Other recipients of grants include the 18th Street Arts Complex, Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, Deaf West Theatre Company, Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pan African Film Festival, Red Hen Press, and Red Nation Celebration Institute.
(Photo credit: Debbie Allen Dance Academy)
