Independent Master Artist Projects Grant Program

Amount

$10,000

Granting Organization

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

Deadline

Nov 13, 2026 - 11:59 pm

2027-29 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Independent Master Artists Projects (COLA-IMAP) Grant Program

The COLA-IMAP grant program allows accomplished artists to create a new, mid-career solo work with the freedom to re-focus on themselves and their core impulses. COLA-IMAP honors a spectrum of Los Angeles-based, mid-career graphic-design, literary, performing, and visual artists who are dedicated to an ongoing body of excellent work, exemplify a generation of core ideas in their field, and are recognized by their peers as role models for other artists because of their distinguished records.

Artists who are selected as COLA-IMAP grantees will have their career accomplishments promoted by the City via a printed and/or online catalog, with likely opportunities for selections from each artist’s new solo work to be premiered in an online expo, a gallery exhibition, and/or a performance showcase.

This cycle, artists whose practice bridges the visual arts and graphic design are especially encouraged to apply within COLA-IMAP’s new Graphic Design category, as DCA seeks to recognize three or more artists with 15 or more years of experience creating innovative books, typefaces, and/or logo-graphics (text-image mixtures). If DCA receives a sufficient number of eligible proposals, DCA would convene a special, separate panel to specifically jury this new category dedicated to artists whose work combines graphic-design talent and conceptual art skills.