L.A. County awards $4.5M to local arts organizations

LOS ANGELES – More than $4.5 million in grants were awarded to 180 L.A. County arts organizations, officials announced last week. Grant amounts range from $3,600 to $233,300. A panel of 80 artists, nonprofit arts administrators and members of the academic community reviewed and scored the applications.

The grants were funded by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

24th Street Theatre $33,800

A Noise Within $36,600

A Window Between Worlds $39,600

Acme Performance Group $16,400

Actors Gang Inc. $30,500

Angel City Arts $11,400

Aresis Ensemble d.b.a City Garage $23,200

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Inc. $114,700

Armory Center for the Arts $52,200

Artist Consortium $9,800

Arts & Services for Disabled $38,000

Arts for LA $29,600

Association for the Advancement of Filipino Arts & Culture $14,600

Autry National Center of the American West $108,900

Beach Cities Symphony $9,400

Benita Bike’s DanceArt, Inc. $3,600

Body Weather Laboratory $14,900

Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra $22,500

California Alliance for Arts Education $23,300

Camerata Singers of Long Beach $12,500

Cantori Domino $14,000

Center for Cultural Innovation $40,600

Chalk Repertory Theatre $4,300

Chorale Bel Canto $18,500

Claremont Chorale Inc. $11,400

Claremont Community School of Music $27,600

Coeurage Theatre Company $7,800

Collage Dance Theatre $18,900

CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. $23,700

Cornerstone Theater Company $40,000

Craft and Folk Art Museum Incorporating the Egg and the Eye $29,700

CRE Outreach Foundation, INC $11,200

Culver City Public Theatre Inc. $3,800

Dance Camera West $13,200

Dancessence Inc. $7,800

Diavolo Dance Theatre $52,100

DMG Music Association Inc. $11,200

Dream A World Education, Inc $6,400

E.S.C.A.P.E.: Experience Santa Clarita’s Actor’s Performing Ensemble # $22,800

East West Players Inc. $59,700

Ebony Repertory Theatre $24,500

Echo Park Film Center $14,900

Elemental Strings $19,900

EngAGE Inc. $55,000

Enrichment Works $19,500

ETM-LA, INC. / Education through Music-LA $33,000

Festival of New American Musical Theater Foundation $9,400

Fierce Backbone $9,400

Film Independent Inc. $73,500

FLAX $12,900

Flights of Fantasy Media Company $8,600

Friends of McGroarty Arts Center $22,600

Friends of the Junior Art Center $11,400

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation $66,000

Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles $31,100

Get Lit-Words Ignite, Inc. $26,700

Glendale Youth Orchestra $8,900

Grand Vision Foundation $26,900

Guild Opera Company Inc. $8,000

Hands for Hope $9,500

Hatchery Arts $25,900

Hernandez Mariachi Heritage Society $11,000

Highways, Inc. $22,700

Imagination Workshop Inc. $14,900

Independent Shakespeare Co. Inc. $32,300

Interact Theatre Company $8,600

International Documentary Foundation $40,000

Invertigo Dance Theatre $21,700

Jabberwocky Theatre Company, DBA Rogue Machine Theatre $21,700

Jacarandamusic $24,400

Japanese American National Museum $59,800

Jazz Angel, Inc. $13,600

Jazz Bakery Performance Space $31,000

Kadima Conservatory of Music $18,900

Kenneth Walker Dance Project $3,600

Keshet Chaim Dancers $10,600

Kidspace Children’s Museum $51,200

Korean American Music Foundation $11,600

L.A. Theatre Works $66,300

LA Artcore Center $13,900

La Petite Musicale of Culver City $13,800

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes $52,200

Lark Musical Society Inc. $33,100

Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles $8,400

Les Figues Press $18,900

Levitt Pavilion - Greater Los Angeles & Pasadena $46,000

Los Angeles Art Association $20,700

Los Angeles Balalaika Orchestra $5,900

Los Angeles Chamber Choir Inc. $8,100

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc. $52,200

Los Angeles Choreographers and Dancers Inc. $22,600

Los Angeles Downtown Arts District Space $6,900

Los Angeles Drama Club Inc. $20,600

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design $7,700

Los Angeles Jazz Society $12,500

Los Angeles Jewish Symphony $14,600

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association $56,300

Los Angeles Music and Art School $30,600

Los Angeles Nomadic Division $20,300

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association $233,300

Los Angeles Symphony $10,500

Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival $13,100

Machine Project $19,500

Madison Project (Broad Stage) $68,600

Matsutoyo Kai $12,600

Metropolitan Master Chorale $14,800

Mountainside Master Chorale, inc. $19,200

Muae Publishing Inc $9,800

Museum of Jurassic Technology $30,500

Museum of Latin American Art $54,600

Neighborhood Music School Association $26,400

Norris Center for the Performing Arts $49,600

Odyssey Theatre Foundation $37,500

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives $22,400

Outfest $52,700

Overtone Industries $10,800

Pacific Opera Project $11,000

Palos Verdes Art Center $49,900

Pan African Film Festival $27,900

Parson’s Nose Productions $15,900

Pasadena Master Chorale Association $12,100

Peninsula Symphony Association $9,300

Piano Spheres $16,800

Playwrights’ Arena, Inc. $26,800

Positive Motions Foundation $3,800

Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism $8,900

Rangoli Foundation For Art & Culture $16,800

Red Hen Press $29,200

reDiscover Center Inc. $6,500

Rhapsody In Taps Incorporated $6,400

Rio Hondo Symphony Association $11,000

Robey Theatre Company $11,800

Rosanna Gamson / World Wide $7,600

Santa Clarita Artists Association Inc. $5,800

Santa Clarita Ballet Company, Inc. $15,800

Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival $7,000

Santa Monica Group Theatre $19,600

Santa Monica Museum of Art $40,600

Santa Monica Symphony Association $11,600

Screamfest Horror Film Festival $15,500

Self Help Graphics and Art Inc $29,000

Seraphim Theatre Company/Echo Theatre $4,000

Shumei Arts Council of America $4,700

Sierra Madre Playhouse $9,900

Skirball Cultural Center $135,000

Son of Semele Ensemble Inc. $14,100

South Coast Chorale Inc. $12,500

Southland Opera $14,300

Southwest Chamber Music Society $28,300

St. Matthew’s Music Guild $16,100

Street Poets Inc. $21,800

Szoboszlay Sandor Hungarian Theatre of Southern Ca $9,900

Taiko Project $15,900

Tay’Yer Multicultural Performance Collective $7,100

TeAda Productions $12,000

The Concert Singers $5,000

The Foundation of the Neo-Renaissance $4,500

The Harmony Project $42,100

The Industry Productions, Inc. $15,100

The Katselas Theatre Company $18,200

The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra $26,300

The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles $140,100

The Pasadena Community Orchestra Foundation $6,800

The Production Company Los Angeles Inc. $16,600

The Sacred Fools Theater $12,500

The Theatre @ Boston Court $46,100

Theatre Forty Inc $22,900

Theatre Movement Bazaar, Inc. $10,600

Theatre Of Hearts Inc. $12,100

United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance $9,600

Valley Culture Center-Warner Park, Inc. $26,100

Venice Arts: In Neighborhoods $40,300

Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation $19,500

Viver Brasil Dance Company $15,600

Vox Femina Los Angeles $12,200

VS. Theatre Company $10,200

West Coast Singers $17,000

Westchester Symphony Society (Culver City Symphony Orchestra) $12,600

WordTheatre $10,100

Young Musicians Foundation $40,800

 

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Published: July 17, 2014 - Volume 13 - Issue 14

Jennifer DeKay