2025 Infinite Expansion Grants

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the 2025 recipients of its Infinite Expansion Grants to ten Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. This year’s grantees are 18th Street Arts
Center, The Brick, CalArts REDCAT, Fulcrum Arts/home LA, Future Roots/Canary Test, Human Resources Los Angeles, JOAN, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Pieter Performance Space, and Self Help Graphics & Art.

2024 Organizational Support Grants

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the 2024 recipients of its Organizational Support Grants to fifteen Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. This year’s grantees are Armory Center for the Arts, Automata Arts, CalArts REDCAT, Clockshop, Coaxial Arts Foundation, Echo Park Film Center, Fulcrum Arts, Future Roots/Lookout FM, Human Resources, JOAN, LAXART, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles Poverty Department, Museum of Jurassic Technology, and Self-Help Graphics & Art.

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2023 Organizational Support Grants

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the 2023 recipients of its Organizational Support Grants to sixteen Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. This year’s grantees are Armory Center for the Arts, Avenue 50 Studio, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Feminist Center for Creative Work, Fulcrum Arts, Human Resources, The Industry, LA River Public Art Project, Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, JOAN, LA Artcore, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Pieter Performance Space, Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation, and Velaslavasay Panorama.

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2022 Organizational Support Grants

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the 2022 recipients of its Organizational Support Grants to eighteen Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. This year’s grantees are 18th Street Arts Center, Active Cultures, Armory Center for the Arts, Beyond Baroque, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Clockshop, Craft Contemporary, Feminist Center for Creative Work, Fulcrum Arts/homeLA, Highways Performance Space & Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), JOAN, LA Freewaves, LAXART, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles Poverty Department, Pieter Performance Space, and Side Street Projects.

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2021 Organizational Support Grants

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the 2021 recipients of its Organizational Support Grants to eighteen Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. This year’s grantees are the Center for Land Use Interpretation; Center for the Study of Political Graphics; Coaxial Arts Foundation; Clockshop; Echo Park Film Center; Future Roots Inc. DBA dublab; Human Resources LA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA); Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Los Angeles Filmforum; Los Angeles Poverty Department; Museum of Jurassic Technology; Pieter Performance Space; Poetic Research Bureau; Side Street Projects; Society for the Activation of Social Spaces through Art and Sound; Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation; and Women’s Center for Creative Work.

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2020 Artist Project Grants

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the 2020 recipients of its Artist Project Grants for the fifth year to nine Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. This year’s grantees are the Armory Center for the Arts; California Institute of the Arts/REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater); Fulcrum Arts/homeLA; Human Resources LA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Los Angeles Filmforum; Pieter; Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation, and Visual Communications Media.

2020 Press Release

2019 Artist Project Grants

Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts awards Artist Project Grants for the fourth year to ten Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. 2019's grantees are the 18th Street Arts Center, California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), Dirty Looks Inc., Echo Park Film Center (EPFC), Equitable Vitrines, Ford Theatre Foundation, IF Innovation Foundation, Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA), and The Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens.

2019 Press Release

2018 Artist Project Grants

Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts awards Artist Project Grants for the third year to ten Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. 2018's grantees are Fulcrum Arts, Hammer Museum, JOAN, LA Freewaves, LAXART, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Latin American Art, Self Help Graphics & Art, and The Underground Museum.

2018 Press Release

2017 Artist Project Grants

Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts awards Artist Project Grants for the second year to eight Los Angeles organizations totaling $319,000. 2017's Grantees are Human Resources/356 S. Mission Rd., The Industry, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS), University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Vincent Price Art Museum, and Pasadena Arts Council/Volume.

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2016 Artist Project Grants

Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts awards inaugural Artist Project Grants to nine L.A. organizations totaling $310,000. 2016's Grantees are the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Clockshop, Coaxial Arts Foundation, Echo Park Film Festival, LA Filmforum, Los Angeles Poverty Department, The Mistake Room, Pasadena Arts Council/Knowledges, and the ICA LA.

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