Grantee Database
18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$20,500.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, 18th Street Arts Center will present a series of community events honoring Japanese American resilience during WWII incarceration through the “Manzanar Baseball Project Grand Opening” led by artist Dan Kwong, with partners Great Leap and the Manzanar National Historic Site. The project includes a live-streamed broadcast of the cultural celebration featuring vintage-style baseball games at the Manzanar Internment Camp site, offering accessible remote viewing. A local screening event, community workshop, and culminating multi-media performance by Kwong will all be held at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Using baseball — a symbol of both Americana and quiet defiance — the project pays tribute to the spirit and resistance of those unjustly imprisoned, supporting cultural memory, healing, and resilience. Funding supports artist compensation and production expenses.
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
