Grantee Database

Active Cultures

Grant Year

2026-27

Grant Program

General Operating Support

Award Amount

$12,000.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, Active Cultures will sustain core operations and artist-led public programs exploring the intersection of art, food, and ecologies across Los Angeles. Funds will support AC’s staffing and communications capacity to produce free public programming countywide, including contributions toward our first Programs Manager hire and expanded website development in advance of the 2027 Art and Food Biennial. AC uses food and ecologies as entry points to illuminate cultural expression, equity, and climate futures through artist commissions, public gatherings, and site-responsive projects developed in parks, gardens, cultural centers, and community kitchens in partnership with cultural practitioners whose work reflects the communities we serve.

Organization Summary

Active Cultures offers programming in three concentric tiers: Member and Community Programs, Public Projects, and Large-Scale Community Events. Our year-round projects provide opportunities for deep collaborations with artists over time, building public programming that centers broad and diverse artistic practice and prioritizes direct engagement with Los Angeles audiences. We embrace the concept of radical hospitality to inspire curiosity and feed empathy, while gathering communities to experience art accessibly with intention and conviviality. We operate in the public sphere to deepen our relationships to land and food, and we uplift Los Angeles as a vital hub of the international art and food movement. Food is the essential lens through which we examine fundamental questions about power, cultural expression, history, equity, climate futures, and ourselves.

Organization

Active Cultures

Address

1370 N St Andrews Pl

LOS ANGELES

90028

County

Los Angeles

Region

South – Los Angeles & Orange

Website

Email

Congressional District

District 30

State Assembly District

District 51

State Senate District

District 26

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