Congratulations to our Fall 2025 grant recipients!
Creative Economy
African American Advisory Alliance — Artist Incubation Pathway: Musicians, storytellers, visual artists and curators create and exhibit artistic work while receiving entrepreneurship development training.
Stay Arts Gallery — FotoLab Workshop Series: Professional training for emerging artists in the full scope of photography, integrating entrepreneurship development and culminating in an identity-focused exhibition.
Dance
Blue13 Dance Company — Breaking Bread: Dance program featuring performances along the Arroyo Seco bringing community stories to life and preserved on video.
Digital Media
Andrea Fiorentini Del Río — Little Lives, Big World-Digital Series: Showcases the daily lives of children around the globe and highlights the uniqueness of their varied worlds.
Film
Claremont Heritage — Mexican Serenade Revisited: A documentary preserving the stories and archival materials of the Mexican Players (Paduanos), the historic dance and theater troupe of Padua Hills.
Gregory Davila — Homeboy Beautiful: The Life Art of Joey Terrill Documentary: Examines the artistic work of an influential queer Chicano artist from East LA, through which he transformed personal expression into bold expressions of cultural resistance with enduring societal impact.
Marcos Nieves — ALAS Short Film Post Production: At a crossroads, an undocumented queer filmmaker struggles with the choices between opportunity in a different country, identity, and leaving family behind.
Roberto S Oregel — Lejanías y Nostalgia: The Art of Alfredo de Batuc Documentary: Traces the resilience of a pioneering Mexican American Eastside artist and his innovative and overlooked work.
Multidisciplinary
Angelica Center for Arts and Music (ACAM) — Music, Dance & Theatre Program: Year-round arts programming for youth.
Music
Delisie Harrison — Del’s Juke Joint: A clean comedy and live-music production inspired by the Black American tradition of Southern juke joints and the vibrant speakeasies that flourished during the Harlem Renaissance.
Grand Performances 40th Anniversary Season — Eastside Spotlight Series: Brings Eastside artists into the spotlight on the main stage backed by pro level production and expanding their reach to broader audiences and the industry.
LA’s 33 Strings — Japanese Music & Instrument Workshops: Centers hands-on instruction and exploration of Japanese music through the koto, shamisen, and shakuhachi instruments.
Paul Z. Livingstone — Thru the Fire: Preserves Altadena’s artistic heritage through multimedia showcases featuring local musicians performing live and recorded traditional and contemporary music.
Project for the Arts and Dreams of Indigenous Oaxacan Heritage (PADIOXH) — El Legado Sigue: Preserves Oaxacan music while providing professional training for Eastside laborers from local bands and engaging youth in the tradition.
Rosario Calatayud Serna's Amplify — Southeast & Northeast LA Live: Showcases emerging artists at culturally rooted small business venues across Southeast and Northeast LA, with recordings that preserve the region’s vibrant musical diversity and advance artists’ careers.
Theater
Artists at Play Playwrights Group — The Neighborhood Project: New play development and productions emerging from page to stage.
Bilingual Foundation for the Arts — Lincoln Park Theater Festival: Young women writers playwright project leading to bilingual theater productions.
In Other People's Shoes Productions — Fire Stories Project: Through theater, young people affected by the Eaton Fire capture feelings in time, bringing their stories to life and transforming personal experiences into powerful artistic expressions of resilience.
Visual Arts
Art Division — Visual Arts Training: Year-round professional instruction across all visual arts disciplines, including printmaking for artists ages 18–27, culminating in exhibitions at the organization’s gallery and other venues.
Marianne Sadowski — Mini Print LA 2026 Exhibition & Catalog: Spotlights the art of printmaking, rooted globally and in Mexico with the oldest print tradition in Latin America and provides opportunities for local artists to participate in this project.
Meztli Projects — Fire Atelier: New works by an intergenerational collective of Indigenous artists transform fire, earth, and native pigments into vivid artworks. California’s unique plants and minerals, when fired, create a vibrant palette drawn from these elements.