JOAN is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit art space for exhibitions, performances, screenings, and discursive events. Founded in 2015 by three female curators, and inspired by the history of feminist performance spaces, JOAN supports experimental practices that exist outside of commercial contexts and aims to enrich the communities it serves with free, public programming that is intellectually stimulating and that has creative, cultural, and educational value.

The PAA grant will support a solo exhibition of new work by interdisciplinary artist Johanna Hedva scheduled for late 2023. It will consist of a constellation of sculptural objects, works on paper, sound works, video, and photographs orbiting around the central theme that considers how objects and materials can act as conduits for personal and collective histories.