L.A. artists receive $10,000 grants

Fifteen local artists have been awarded 2006-07 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowships by the Department of Cultural Affairs.

They are visual artists Paul J. Botello, Aya Dorit Cypis, Caryl Davis, Andrew Freeman, Clement S. Hanami, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Coleen Sterritt, Lincoln Tobier, Carrie Ungerman and J. Michael Walker; literary arts honorees Diane Lefer and Luis Rodriguez; and performing artists Hector Aristizabal, Phil Ranelin and Heather Woodbury.

The fellowships are in recognition of excellence in a mid-career artist’s ongoing body of work and are peer-reviewed.

Each recipient will receive $10,000 to create new work that will be exhibited free to the public in late May at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery and Barnsdall Gallery Theatre.

Lynne Heffley