Grantee Database
Kala Institute
Grant Year
2024-25
Grant Program
Statewide and Regional Networks
Award Amount
$32,405.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Kala Institute will serve as a regional hub, broadening the scope and services offered to individual artists including teaching artists and arts administrators working in the artist residency field or other non-profit art spaces who share similar missions to support artists work over the long arc of their careers. Services offered to the network include professional development classes, art workshops, artist and arts administrators meet-ups and resource sharing, teaching artist training, artist residencies field sharing, fiscal sponsorship, art sales and consulting, and sharing of gallery and classroom space.
Organization Summary
The heart of Kala’s mission is supporting artists and engaging the community. Kala’s artist residency program offers professional facilities to those working in and across printmaking and digital media, new media, public art, sculpture, installation, and performance. Kala’s artist residency program is known for the support it offers to artists, specialized resources spanning printmaking, photography, sculpture and media arts, points of contact with accessible staff, and the caliber of work artists are able to produce and share with the community while in residence. Kala’s artist residencies provide time, space, equipment, and a knowledgeable network of artists (175+ artists a year) to foster dialogue, risk-taking, creation of new work, and community building.
Kala’s exhibitions and gallery, free and open to the public Tuesday-Saturday, provide a platform for innovative presentations of contemporary art and a forum for artists and the public – sparking conversations across views and timely topics. This complex web of timely topics includes racial and social justice, displacement, the environment, community wellness, and more. Kala hosts community events, film screenings, artist talks, and performances in the galley too.
Kala fosters a fresh approach to experimentation, as artists investigate the interface of digital work, work made by hand, and everything in between. A spirit of exchange and education is nurtured through all Kala’s programs. Kala offers quality arts education to the general public and local youth through its on-site art classes – after school studio art, teen studio workshops, family and community art-making sessions, summer art programs, field trips, and a robust Artists-in-Schools program, established in 1991, providing artist-led instruction to students in neighboring East Bay public schools.
Providing multiple points of access to space and resources through artist residencies, exhibitions, and arts education is more important than ever as we fight for equitable engagement in the midst of these challenging times.
Organization
Kala Art Institute
Address
1060 HEINZ AVE
Kala Institute
BERKELEY
94710-2719
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 841-7000
Congressional District
California's 13th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 14
State Senate District
District 7
