Five Artists, 10 Groups to Share $195,000 From Getty Trust Fund
Five Los Angeles-based visual artists and 10 local arts groups will share in $195,000 in fellowships and grants from the California Community Foundation’s J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts.
Winners of the visual arts fellowships, which carry a stipend of $15,000 each, are photographer Laura Aguilar, experimental film and video artist Juan Garza, and painters Barbara Carrasco, Roberto Gil Del Montes and Pattsi Valdez.
The organizational grant winners include Self-Help Graphics & Arts and ARTScorpsLA ($20,000 each); A Window Between Worlds, Plaza de la Raza and the Korean American Museum ($15,000 each); and Armory Center for the Arts ($10,000).
Additional recipients are the L.A. Center for Photographic Studies and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions ($7,500 each), and Highways Performance Space and Center for the Study of Political Graphics ($5,000 each).
The Getty fellowship and grant program was originally established in 1987; since then, the program has given out nearly $1.6 million.
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