Grantee Database
18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$21,250.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, 18th Street Arts Center (18SAC) will commission artist Karla Diaz to partner with The Quinn Research Center (QRC), an important Black history archive, in the creation of 1-2 community images that celebrate the QRC’s newly proposed ‘Broadway Cultural Heritage District’ – a corridor of Santa Monica where black owned businesses and families have congregated for over 100 years. Today the Calvary Baptist Church, the 102 year old Philomethean Women’s Club, Cuttin’ it Up barber shop, and more remain. The imagery will emerge from 3 artist-led workshops that draw upon participating resident stories and archival images. The images will be reproduced and given away as free totebags and postcards at community events, and reproduced as temporary public art murals installed at the site of the Broadway Cultural Heritage District.
Organization Summary
18th Street provides a hub for contemporary artmaking through two program areas that reflect its mission:
1) A Public Events and Exhibition Program that includes commissioning new work from artists focused on engaging the public and revealing the art-making process, and a Cultural Asset Storytelling Map which underpins our community engagement projects with citizen-generated research.
2) A three-tiered Residency Program fostering inter-cultural collaboration and dialogue
The three tiers are:
a) Visiting artist residencies, for national and international artists and curators who live at 18th Street for 1-3 months.
b) Long-term residencies subsidized by 18SAC for local Los Angeles-based artists.
c) Long-term Cultural Organization residencies that uniquely add to the vibrancy of the 18SAC and often serve as collaborative partners.
Organization
18th Street Arts Center
Address
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica
90404
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(310) 453-3711
Congressional District
CA District 3636
State Assembly District
District 51
State Senate District
District 24
