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Untitled 2007
Mid-Career Artist Sandeep Mukherjee
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The California Community Foundation has awarded $260,000 in one-year fellowships to 14 outstanding emerging and mid-career artists working in painting, sculpture, performance art, experimental film/video and multimedia. Four emerging artists each received $15,000 fellowships and 10 mid-career artists each received $20,000 fellowships.
“In these challenging times, we need art more than ever,” said Antonia Hernández, president and CEO at the foundation. “At CCF, we value creativity and the role of artistic expression as a source of great inspiration to the community. We are pleased to help these gifted artists move forward in their careers through these highly competitive fellowships.”
Fellows were selected by a 10-member panel of local artists, curators and arts experts from a pool of 549 applicants, a 27 percent increase from 2008. The panel included: Marshall Astor, visual arts director, Angels Gate Cultural Center; Lisa Anne Auerbach, 2007 Fellowships for Visual Artists recipient; Amada Cruz, program director, United States Artists; Karin Higa, adjunct senior curator of art, Japanese American National Museum; Asuka Hisa, director of education, Santa Monica Museum of Art; Charmaine Jefferson, executive director, California African American Museum; Otoño Luján, artist; Karen Mack, executive director, LA Commons; Connie Samaras, 2006 Fellowships for Visual Artists recipient and professor of studio art, University of California, Irvine; and Pilar Tompkins, curator, Claremont Museum of Art. Leslie Ito, CCF program officer for the arts, staffed the panel.
Emerging artists are those who have less than seven years of professional experience. Mid-career artists are those who have seven or more years of active, professional experience. The fellowships draw together the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, the Brody Arts Fund, the Atlass Fund, the Joan Palevsky Endowment for the Future of Los Angeles and other CCF funds.
View a complete list of fellows.
See their artwork in the online artists' gallery.
Read the L.A. Times blog. |
