Grantee Database
L A FREEWAVES
Grant Year
2018-19
Grant Program
Research in the Arts
Award Amount
$45,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, L A FREEWAVES will conduct and analyze long, multi-part interviews with eight Los Angeles artists about their creative placekeeping efforts. This research aims to reverse the misperception that artists pave the way for gentrification of authentic communities, by revealing their intentional and persistent support for underserved, often traumatized communities in Los Angeles.
Organization Summary
Freewaves most recent work has combined healing and art in public venues or focused on gender in new inquisitive ways. These projects are still in process.
Dis…Miss is Freewaves’ most recent completed work, public visual art experiences with short videos, postcards, and audience engagement, began the Fall of 2016 and evolved through many events and concluded as a book by MIT Press in 2023.
60 outstanding L.A. artists are instigating dialogues online and in various public settings around evolving perceptions and attitudes about gender and intersectional feminism. The videos and images present nuanced imagery and ideas on these complex topics as they simultaneously aim to confront stubborn inequalities and stereotypes in our culture today.
Freewaves’ audience engagements take the form of screenings, workshops, discussions, public art events and audience interactions in the greater Los Angeles area and beyond.
Organization
L A Freewaves
Address
840 Laveta Terrace
los angeles
90026
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(213) 344-8910
Congressional District
California's 28th congressional district
State Assembly District
28th
State Senate District
AD 51
