Provider: Department of Cultural Affairs

Categories: Recreation: Art and Culture; Recreation: Museums and Exhibits

Description
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Grants Administration Division provides support to LA's rich and diverse arts and cultural organizations and individual artists. The Grants Administration Division awards funds annually to nurture and support community service providers and community artists in Los Angeles. Awards are given to large, mid-size, small, and emerging organizations. Grants are available in a variety of disciplines and categories including dance, music, media, and visual arts, as well as literature, educational programs, residencies, and professional fellowships. The goal of the Grants Administration Division is to provide a diverse portfolio of high-quality free or low-cost services for residents and visitors of all ages throughout the City. Support ranges from $1,000 to $75,000 per project, based on published review criteria. DCA selects grantees through a competitive peer review process. DCA's Grants Administration Division manages grant programs with annual deadlines for qualified artists and creative/cultural organizations to submit artistic event/program proposals or arts administration proposals so that the City of Los Angeles can reinvest a percentage of money collected from its Tourist Occupancy Tax (the hotel bed tax assessed on tourists) through contracts for services to partially underwrite a wide array of arts and cultural activities with reimbursement payments to grant recipients. The selected activities for the benefit of the general public can be small or large and for general or target audiences, but regardless, proposed activities for DCA grants should be community-relevant, high-quality productions; should be free or low-cost; and should be either open or accessible public activities that aim to educate, enlighten, and/or entertain Los Angeles residents and/or tourists. Eligible activities include: o artist residencies in LA social service agencies, libraries, schools or DCA art centers, o business training for artists or arts managers, o cultural heritage and history presentations, o dance concerts or classes, o fellowship opportunities for LA creative professionals to conduct residencies in foreign countries, o film festivals, public television/radio programs or arts presentations on the internet, o literary arts (poetry/fiction) workshops, readings or publishing projects, o master artist fellowships to produce and premier new work, o museum programs or visual arts/design exhibitions, o music concerts or classes, o outdoor festivals or parades, o residency opportunities for international artists to teach/learn while visiting LA, o special conferences or partnerships, o theater workshops, presentations or plays, o traditional folk art classes or presentations, and o Variety arts programs that combine elements from two or more of the categories above. The DCA Grants Administration Division publishes on-line applications forms for each of its annual grant deadlines. Before each deadline, free instructional workshops are held to help new and returning applicants submit complete, strategic, and competitive proposals. DCA's Grants Administration Division welcomes diverse members of the LA community (laypersons, arts enthusiasts, educators, and arts experts) to submit their interest, credentials, and expertise to serve as peer-review panelists on one of the dozen community-review teams that meet once per year to score and determine which proposals will be granted financial support from the City of Los Angeles. The amount of money invested annually depends on City revenues, yet remains plentiful enough to drive the Citys creative economy forward. DCA recognizes the arts/cultural sector is: 1) the second largest industry in the Southern California region; 2) the second most important reason tourists want to visit Los Angeles (again and again); and 3) an essential contributor to Los Angeles becoming a community-inspired, culturally-diverse, and globally-aware place to live.

Webpage: http://www.culturela.org/programs/index.html