CA For The Arts
2025 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Independent Master Artist Projects (COLA-IMAP) G
CA For The Arts, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079
2025 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Independent Master Artist Projects (COLA-IMAP) Grant Program
In Los Angeles on October 31, 2025. Approximately 6-12 COLA-IMAP grant-contracts will be offered for designers/visual artists (including architects, graphic designers, and product designers including fashion designers), literary artists (poets or fiction writers) and performing artists (including choreographers who wish to make and perform individual dance works, musicians who wish to compose and perform individual music works, and multi-disciplinary theater artists who wish to invent and perform solo works).
The COLA-IMAP Grant Program allows accomplished artists to create a new mid-career solo work with freedom to refocus on themselves and their core impulses. The COLA-IMAP category honors a spectrum of the city’s avant-garde artists who:
Are dedicated to an ongoing body of excellent work.
Represent a relevant progression through their pieces or series over the past 15 years (8 years for a dancer/choreographer).
Exemplify a generation of core ideas in their field.
Are respected by their peers and are role models for other artists because of their distinguished record.
DCA will organize an online and/or printed catalog to promote the entire set of COLA-IMAP grantees as “creative treasures” and document/market the group as one cross-section of the Los Angeles art scene. DCA and community partners will also showcase a curated selection of each master-artist’s new work in a gallery exhibition or performing arts showcase.
Eligibility and Applicants
Individual artists or independent duos who are professional masters of self-evolved ideas (not curators, presenters, or interpreters of other artists’ works, and not artists who have primarily built their credentials within collaborative groups or within social practices). If the art practice involves groups, interactivity with a specific type of person, or is conceptualized to be sited in a self-selected place, apply to DCA’s NEAR grant (Neighborhood Engagement Artists Residency). Projects deemed ineligible include those that are collaboratively made and interactive with audiences or other artists (not including technicians or fabricators).
Current residents of Los Angeles County who also demonstrate on their résumés that they live in the City of Los Angeles or have a 3+ year history of presenting work in the City of Los Angeles.
Professionals who illustrate on their résumé at least 15 years (8 years for choreographer/dancers) of a progressive, ongoing exhibition, publication, or performance record. This may include post-secondary student presentations and does not need to be 15 (or 8) consecutive years.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
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Non-profit Organizations
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The COLA-IMAP Grant Program allows accomplished artists to create a new mid-career solo work with freedom to refocus on themselves and their core impulses. The COLA-IMAP category honors a spectrum of the city’s avant-garde artists who:
Are dedicated to an ongoing body of excellent work.
Represent a relevant progression through their pieces or series over the past 15 years (8 years for a dancer/choreographer).
Exemplify a generation of core ideas in their field.
Are respected by their peers and are role models for other artists because of their distinguished record.
DCA will organize an online and/or printed catalog to promote the entire set of COLA-IMAP grantees as “creative treasures” and document/market the group as one cross-section of the Los Angeles art scene. DCA and community partners will also showcase a curated selection of each master-artist’s new work in a gallery exhibition or performing arts showcase.
Eligibility and Applicants
Individual artists or independent duos who are professional masters of self-evolved ideas (not curators, presenters, or interpreters of other artists’ works, and not artists who have primarily built their credentials within collaborative groups or within social practices). If the art practice involves groups, interactivity with a specific type of person, or is conceptualized to be sited in a self-selected place, apply to DCA’s NEAR grant (Neighborhood Engagement Artists Residency). Projects deemed ineligible include those that are collaboratively made and interactive with audiences or other artists (not including technicians or fabricators).
Current residents of Los Angeles County who also demonstrate on their résumés that they live in the City of Los Angeles or have a 3+ year history of presenting work in the City of Los Angeles.
Professionals who illustrate on their résumé at least 15 years (8 years for choreographer/dancers) of a progressive, ongoing exhibition, publication, or performance record. This may include post-secondary student presentations and does not need to be 15 (or 8) consecutive years.
Learn More and Visit Website for more details.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
Industries
Non-profit Organizations
General notes: Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at CA For The Arts by 2x.
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