Pasadena Arts Council

Pasadena Art Alliance

The Pasadena Arts Council is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization that provides resources, programs and services to artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, young people and visitors to Pasadena.  The agency offers an independent voice for promoting a vibrant cultural community by facilitating, empowering and advocating for the arts. The Pasadena Arts Council’s AxS Incubator will receive support for a NEA …

Pasadena City College, Visual Arts & Media Studies Division

Pasadena Art Alliance

PCC’s Art Division offers more than 140 visual arts courses. The Boone Family Art Gallery has eight exhibitions during fall and spring semesters, which reflect professional work representing the disciplines taught in the division including a guest-curated show, a group faculty show, and the Artist-in-Residence exhibit. Funding will go towards their Student Scholarship Program, an exhibition series including the 30th …

Pitzer College Art Galleries

Pasadena Art Alliance

Pitzer Art Galleries exist to provide visually arresting and memorable exhibitions for diverse audiences, students and artists that promote the value and understanding of contemporary art within a local, national and international context. The Galleries are comprised of two sites, the Nichols Gallery—committed to solo and group exhibitions by national and international artists both emerging and established— and the Lenzner …

Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly

Pasadena Art Alliance

Founded in Eagle Rock by a group of Los Angeles artists, X-TRA has been produced quarterly since 1997 by the Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism. Now found on newsstands and bookstores around the country, X-TRA is a contemporary art journal based in Los Angeles that presents expansive features, historical essays, interviews, substantive reviews and more. This grant continues …

Scripps College, Williamson Gallery

Pasadena Art Alliance

Founded in 1983, the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College presents four annual exhibitions spanning a wide range of art. Whether historical or contemporary, Western or Asian, exhibitions enrich the teaching of art and humanities at Scripps as well as the cultural community of Claremont and environs.  Since 1996, the Williamson Gallery has invited guest curators to coordinate the …

Self Help Graphics & Art

Pasadena Art Alliance

Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG) is the leading non-profit visual arts center serving the predominantly Latino community of East Los Angeles.  SHG’s mission is to develop and nurture Latino artists in the production, distribution and interpretation of prints and other art media through its multi-disciplinary, inter-generational programming. The funds will be used in support of nine Native American artists …

Side Street Projects

Pasadena Art Alliance

Side Street Projects is an entirely mobile artist-run organization that gives artists of all ages the ability and means to support their creative endeavors. They teach artists how to roll up their sleeves and do things themselves with education programs that encourage self-reliance and creative problem solving in a contemporary art context. Each year they serve over 10,000 individual adult …

Skirball Cultural Center

Pasadena Art Alliance

The Skirball Cultural Center is a place of meeting that is guided by the Jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger and inspired by the American democratic ideals of freedom and equality.  People of all communities and generations are welcomed and invited to participate in cultural experiences that celebrate discovery and hope, foster human connections, and call upon us to help …

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Pasadena Art Alliance

Building on Henry E. Huntington’s legacy of renowned collections and botanical gardens that enrich the visitor, The Huntington today encourages research and promotes education in the arts, humanities, and botanical sciences through the growth and preservation of its collections, through the development and support of a community of scholars, and through the display and interpretation of its extraordinary resources to …

The Industry

Pasadena Art Alliance

The Industry is an independent artist driven company creating experimental productions that expand the definition of opera and performance art. Support will go towards artist Liz Glynn’s sculpture which will be used in The Industry’s latest production, Galileo.  At the literal and figurative center of the production will be Glynn’s significant sculptural set; a bonfire-like fountain used for the performances …