Grantee Database

LEVEL GROUND INC

Grant Year

2025-26

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$18,000.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, Level Ground will produce and exhibit a two-week culminating gallery show for our Social Practice Labs — a new program featuring artist-led book clubs, seminars, workshops, and events inspired by revolutionary texts that lead us towards social and cultural change. Inspired by our 18-month engagement with Octavia E Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” this culminating gallery show titled “Season of the Sower” includes work from 10 Black and trans emerging and mid-career artists selected by Lead Curator yétúndé olagbaju.

Organization Summary

We run three distinct, interdependent programs. The specific events and projects within each program may evolve or even change year-to-year on account of our capacity, budget, and strategic decision-making, but these programs provide the consistent scaffolding for where Level Ground directs our resources.

Our Residency Program provides emerging visual artists and cultural stewards with financial, creative, and care support to produce and exhibit a new body of work. A rotating selection committee curates each residency cohort, and every program cycle culminates with a free public offering from the residents.

Our Production Incubator supports experimental and nonfiction filmmakers making work about critical socio-political issues. We create opportunities for collaboration and provide resources for project development, production, and distribution.

Our Social Practice Labs are artist-led humanities seminars and workshops inspired by revolutionary texts where our larger communities join the Level Ground Collective to study and practice frameworks of collective liberation and abolition. Each year, the lab is documented in an annual group publication and/or exhibition.

Alongside our programs, Level Ground maintains a Mutual Aid Network that offers responsive, ongoing, and direct material support specifically and exclusively for the Level Ground Collective (i.e. emergency grants, health stipends, project materials).

Organization

Level Ground

Address

1920 Hillhurst Avenue #V939

Los Angeles

90027

County

Los Angeles

Region

South – Los Angeles & Orange

Phone

(630) 913-7264

Congressional District

California's 30th congressional district

State Assembly District

District 52

State Senate District

District 26

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