


August 11, 2021 10:00 AM






SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The Santa Monica Artist Fellowship application, now in its twelfth year, is the City’s remarkably regarded specific artist grant software that awards two artists with $16,000 Artist Fellowships, and three artists with $4,200 Project Fellowships.


For this year’s plan, a new category was fashioned below Undertaking Fellowships. The City’s Arts Fee designed the Kate Johnson Electronic Arts Fellowship in honor of the beloved nearby filmmaker and digital media artist who passed in 2020. This new award supports artists in the electronic and/or digital disciplines, like electronic film, video, internet- and gaming-based perform, and interactive fine artwork.


This year’s Artist Fellows include choreographer Jacob Jonas and songwriter and visual artist Phranc. Venture Fellows are filmmaker Yuletide Caise, visual artist Debra Disman and artist Jody Zellen receiving the inaugural Kate Johnson Digital Arts Fellowship.


One particular of the major, general public-sector, individual artist systems in the U.S., the City of Santa Monica’s Artist Fellowship plan was released in 2009 as element of the City’s Artistic Capital Cultural Strategy, which recognized individual artist help as a critical component of the community arts ecosystem. The program provides a platform for the two emerging and established artists and reinforces residents’ long-standing regard for creativity and innovation.


“It’s difficult to express how significantly this usually means to me as an artist, to be recognized by my dwelling town of Santa Monica for past and existing function on James Baldwin,” claims Challenge Fellow and filmmaker Yule Caise. “I plan to invite a group of local youth to participate in my progress process to give back to the Santa Monica neighborhood that has been so supportive of me therefore far.”


“[I’m] grateful to have this honor and the acknowledgment of our perform,” says Artist Fellow and choreographer Jacob Jonas. “Being born and lifted in Santa Monica, it suggests the planet to have the Town aid the arts and our effects globally.”


This year’s review panel incorporated: former Santa Monica Pier Executive Director Negin Singh previous L.A. County Arts Commissioner and former Executive Director of Self Enable Graphics Tomás Benitez visible artist and author Max King Cap former Getty Museum Undertaking Arts Professional and dramaturg, Norman Frisch and scholar and writer Heather Dundas.


Bios and photos for the 2021-2022 Fellowship awardees


For a lot more information on the Artist Fellowship system, visit santamonica.gov/procedure-explainers/artist-options


For an archive of previous recipients, visit santamonica.gov/artists-and-grantees


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