With support from the California Arts Council, Materials & Applications will expand organizational capacity to produce and sustain its ambitious programming that shifts public conversation around the built environment toward urgent topics that, in 2023-2025, include but aren’t limited to architecture’s relationship to mental and emotional well-being with particular attention to marginalized groups, designing with Indigenous relationalities to land, and material experimentation and building degrowth during climate crisis. Funds support M&A’s mission to provide a space for experimental architecture in LA, through our programs that offer opportunities to build at full-scale to emerging, underrepresented designers. Specifically, CAC grant funds would be used toward the equitable compensation our partners, collaborating artists, architects, designers, and staff; the expansion of staff capacities and hours; the development and expansion of M&A operating infrastructures; the maintenance of M&A’s physical spaces.