Seven weeks after fires, fires placed a waste of neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, Fire Relief Fund Arts He gave 14.3 million dollars to more than 1700 artists and artists affected by disaster.
Applicants were notified of a grant from the Getty-Lef Relift Fund on Tuesday afternoon. All applicants who lost a house (with or without insurance) were granted in addition to all those who lost a non -insured studio on work or the full amount of work space they requested, up to $ 10,000 each.
Eighty -five percent of registered applicants as artists, and 15 % have identified themselves as art workers. The program defines art workers on a large scale and includes those who work in commercial or non -profit arts organizations in a wide range of jobs, including management, education, security, food service and preserving the foundations, seventy -eight percent of the beneficiaries of the loss from the Etone fire in Tadina, 22 % Of Palisades fire.
The fund is managed and managed before Cultural Innovation CenterA non -profit organization has helped since 2001 artists secure financial stability. One of the basic goals of the organization is to provide relief quickly.
“Understand the extent to which our cultural society is strongly affected by fires, we have designed a program that quickly gets money for those who need more than others,” said Angie Kim, the center’s president and CEO of the center. “Everyone participated in us to conduct communication, communicate with employers in the arts, employ artists in society, coordinate with other relief financiers, and attend neighborhood gatherings.”
The Cultural Innovation Center has worked closely with side projects on the streets in Altadena and the ARMory Arts Center in Pasadena to help applicants through this process.
Museums, exhibitions, companies and individual donors from 28 countries contributed to the fund, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art. The foundations of Mellon and Helen Frankenthaleer; Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts; Qatar Foundation Museums; Melody Hobson and George Lucas Family Foundation; Kate Kapsho, Stephen Spielberg and Herolland Foundation; Robert Rosenberg Foundation; Bible Foundation; Mike Kelly Arts Foundation; Gagosyan and Hoser & Worth Exhibitions; Frees.
