ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation

March 17, 2011

I have been awarded a 2011 ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation – I’m honored to be included within a group of such talented fellow LA artists.

This funding will fully support the video text installations of my prose poems at my upcoming solo museum show in Chelsea/NYC at the Smithsonian-affiliated Center for Jewish History and Yeshiva University Museum. This solo exhibition of my photographs, poetry, and installations will run from July 2011 until February 2012.

The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) ARC (Artists’ Resource for Completion) grants program is designed to enhance the careers of Los Angeles artists by enabling them to take the best advantage of imminent opportunities to present their work.

The ARC program provides rapid, short-term assistance to enhance work for a specific, imminent opportunity that may significantly benefit an artist’s career. CCI took over administration of the ARC program from the Durfee Foundation in January 2011. The Durfee Foundation and the Center for Cultural Innovation are very excited to partner in continuing to make this important and vital resource available to L.A. artists.

“We are extremely pleased to be supporting so many Los Angeles County artists in this first round of ARC funding, and to recognize the great value and impact of their work on the community,” said CCI President and CEO Cora Mirikitani.

The following nineteen (19) Los Angeles County artists received 2011 ARC grants:

·   Michael Arata (Visual)
·   Mona Jean Cedar (Multidisciplinary)
·   Zoe Crosher (Visual)
·   Robert Crouch (Multidisciplinary)
·   Roni Feldman (Visual)
·   Mark S. Greenfield (Visual)
·   Mark E. Hagen (Visual)
·   Daniel M. Hawkins (Visual)
·   Leslie Ishii (Theater)
·   Paul Outlaw (Theater)
·   Sandra Powers (Media Arts)
·   Phil Ranelin (Music)
·   Kimberly Schoenstadt (Visual)
·   Wu Ingrid Tsang (Visual)
·   Quintan Ana Wikswo (Visual)
·   Kevin P. Williamson (Dance)
·   Meg Wolfe (Dance)
·   Kristina Wong (Theater)
·   Naisa Y. Wong (Theater)

The ARC grants program was established by the Durfee Foundation in 2000 in an effort to provide a dedicated resource for individual artists living in Los Angeles County. Over the last decade, the ARC program has had an extensive impact on the Los Angeles arts community, helping advance the careers of more than 400 individual artists, working in all disciplines. ARC not only addresses the needs of individual artists, but has also extensively contributed to an overall sense of community and optimism for working artists in Los Angeles.

About CCI: The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) was founded in 2001 as a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Its mission is to promote knowledge sharing, networking, and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing business training, grants and loans, and incubating innovative projects that create new program knowledge, tools, and practices for artists in the field.

For more information about the Center for Cultural Innovation and the ARC grants program please go to CCI’s website at www.cciarts.org.

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