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  • Cathy Akers

    For lighting and diorama-making supplies to expand the scale of the Evolution installation at Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City, California in spring 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Richard Alger

    To engage a graphic designer and add a video component to the premier of the theater work, Monster of Happiness, at the 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Kirsten Alker

    To engage a dramaturg, lighting designer and for costuming for the movement-theater piece A Little of More at the Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco in April 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Ronald Allen

    To engage a director, designers and musicians for the production of the play Eyemouth Graffiti Bodyshop at Theatre of Note in Los Angeles in spring 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter


  • Portrait

    Sergio “Checo” Alonso

    Master Musician Fellowship

  • Ana Maria Alvarez-Lowe

    For the production of a video backdrop for the performance I Dream America by Contra-Tiempo dance company at the Unknown Theater in Los Angeles in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Jacki Apple

    To create a digital photo montage to add to the exhibition Women Artists of Southern California: Then and Now, at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, California in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Portrait

    Mehrdad Arabi

    Master Musician Fellowship


  • Deborah Aschheim

    To extend a solo sculpture exhibition at the Laumeier Sculpture Park into an outdoor garden space, in the winter and spring of 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Dave Hullfish Baily

    To make a handcrafted lamp and to ship work for exhibition in the Biennale D’Art Contemporain de Lyon in the fall of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Kelly Barrie

    To manufacture and install a mural and to travel to New York for the exhibition Nina in Position at Artists Space in January 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Natalie Bookchin

    To hire sound and title designers for the enhancement of a work of video projections to be included in the Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter


  • Portrait

    Susan Burton
    A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project

    Sabbatical

  • Joyce Campbell

    For construction of a custom shelf and production of a guidebook in association with the solo exhibition LA Botanical at Gallery 727 in Los Angeles in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Amy Campion

    To engage a graffiti artist, a DJ and a costume designer for the multimedia breakdancing performance, Breaking the Cypher, at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angleles in fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Leilani Chan

    To engage a martial artist/choreographer and a scenic designer for the theatrical premier of Refugee Nation at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Massachusetts in the fall of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter


  • YaYa Chou

    To fabricate 25 hand-blown brown glass bottles for the sculpture installation, Color Based, at Dangerous Curve Gallery in Los Angeles in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Kevin Cooper

    To add percussion, organ and harp to a musical concert at the Ruth B. Shannon Center for Performing Arts in Whittier, California in spring 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Beatriz Da Costa

    To engage a video collaborator and produce of a documentary video for the electronic installation of PigeonBlog as part of the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts Festival at the Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art in Sevilla, Spain in…
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Sandra De la loza

    To engage an animator and illustrator for a video installation as part of the exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in April 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter


  • Steven Deo

    To rent a truck to transport the installation “Bare Trees” to the exhibition Weather Report: Art & Climate Change at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado in the fall of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Portrait

    Sister Terry Dodge
    Crossroads, Inc.

    Sabbatical

  • Arthur Dong

    For Dolby soundtrack mastering of the film Hollywood Chinese to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Goteborg International Film Festival in the fall of 2007 and winter of…
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Carol Es

    To travel to Houston to oversee installation of fragile pen and ink works in a solo show at the Koelsch Gallery in Houston in fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter


  • John Espinosa

    To make special clear resin castings and to build storage tanks for Odd Sympathy, a one-person exhibition at Sandroni Rey Gallery in Los Angeles in fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Tobias Forrest

    For construction of special set elements for the production of the theater work Pyretown at Playwrights Arena in Los Angeles in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Wanda Gala

    For live music and the construction of handcrafted puppets for the performance of Les Biches at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California in spring 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Geoff Gallegos

    For rehearsal fees for additional rehearsal in preparation for a concert by the artist's Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra at Bovard Auditorium at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in spring 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter


  • Megan Geckler

    To support enhanced lighting of a window installation to be exhibited by Bert Green Fine Art at the corner of 5th and Main Streets in Los Angeles for the 2008 year.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Maria Gillepsie

    To upgrade costumes and lighting design for Oni Dance’s presentation at Joyce SoHo in New York City in January 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Portrait

    Mark Gold
    Heal the Bay

    Stanton Fellowship

  • Alexandra Grant

    For materials to expand the scale of an installation for the exhibition Double-Take: The Poetics of Illusion and Light at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore in winter 07 – spring 08.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter


  • Jesus Guzman

    To hire a director, lighting and graphic designers and for set construction for a performance by Mariachi Los Comperos de Nati Cano at UCLA Live in Los Angeles in November of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Fritz Haeg

    To hire a photographer and a videographer to document the growth of an edible garden in London, linking it to the exhibition Global Cities in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Kelly Hargraves

    For color correction and sound editing of the film CARGO, to be screened at the Dance on Camera Festival in Salt Lake City, the Cypress International Film Festival in Greece, and the American Dance Festival-Screendance in Raleigh, North…
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Mary Beth Heffernan

    To produce four posters for The Solider’s Skin: An Endless Edition, to be exhibited at the Pasadena City College Art Gallery as part of the Arts and Ideas Festival in fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter


  • Alison Heimstead

    To engage a composer and two live musicians for the puppetry piece, The Saint Plays, to be performed at Open Eye Theater in Minneapolis in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Portrait

    Eve Hill
    Disability Rights Legal Center

    Stanton Fellowship

  • Kiel Johnson

    To purchase a saw, motors and other materials related to the completion of a large-scale installation for exhibition at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Portrait

    Charles Kaimikaua Jr.

    Master Musician Fellowship


  • Annetta Kapon

    For the purchase of a wireless digital video projector and to engage a writer in association with a 25-year video retrospective of the artist's work in Camac Art Gallery in Marnay Sur Seine in France in spring 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Portrait

    Kineya Kichikazu

    Master Musician Fellowship

  • Carole Kim

    For video monitors, cable and sharktooth scrim for an interdisciplinary performance as part of the Spring Wave Festival in Seoul, Korea in spring 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Regina Klenjoski

    For additional dancers and live musicians for the dance work The Museum Project, Triptych: Feet on Concrete at the Long Beach Museum of Art in California February 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter


  • Karen Koblitz

    To engage a calligrapher and a weaver in Azerbaijan to fabricate a carpet for inclusion in the exhibition Facing East at L2kontemporary Gallery in Los Angeles in fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Joyce Kohl

    For video editing of a companion piece to the artist's public art mobile installation at the Bakersfield airport in Bakersfield, California in spring 2007 and running continuously thereafter.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Dan Kwong

    For fees to collaborators for production of the play, Show Me Some Stuff by Cedar Grove Productions and the Latino Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theater Center in November of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Melissa Lambert

    For custom face mounts of self-portraits to be included in Newtown's Medical/Arts Show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California and also for exhibition at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, California in spring 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter


  • Thomas Leabheart

    To engage a scenic painter, a lighting designer and to ship costumes for the mime ensemble performance, The Apple Tree, at REDCAT in Los Angeles in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Portrait

    Sister Jennie Lechtenberg
    PUENTE Learning Center

    Stanton Fellowship

  • Elizabeth Leister

    To engage a collaborator for sound design and technical assistance in the production of the multimedia performance Without Risk of Excessive Loss at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California in October of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Karen Liebowitz

    To expand a studio door and purchase supplies to enable the production of large-scale paintings for a solo exhibition at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles in the winter of 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter


  • Jacob Kujo Lyons

    To engage live musicians for a performance by Lux Aeterna at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California in March 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Jennifer Maisel

    To engage lighting and scenic designers for the production of the theater work Birds at the Rorschach Theater in Washington DC in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • David Thorne

    For color correction and final audio mix of the documentary video We will live to see these things for screening at the Images Festival in Toronto, Canada and the Impact Festival in Utrecht, Holland in spring 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Juanita Meneses

    For supplies for an artists’ book as part of the exhibition Not Here or There / Ni Aqui Ni Alla at the Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles in February 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter


  • Yong Soon Min

    For the purchase of a video projector and related equipment for the presentation of the installation Strangers to Ourselves as part of the exhibition Trauma Interrupted at Metropolitan Museum of Manila in the Philippines in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Susan Mogul

    For sound mixing and sweetening of the film Driving Men for screening at the Visions de Reel in Nyon, Switzerland in April 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Ken Narasaki

    For set construction and additional rehearsal space in preparation for the production of the play Innocent When You Dream at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California in October of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Rebecca Niederlander

    To engage two preparators and for window design related to a site-specific storefront installation in Beverly Hills by Phantom Galleries LA in summer/fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter


  • Danial Nord

    For the purchase of high-tech audio system for the solo exhibition Welcome Home at HAUS Gallery in Pasadena, California in spring 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Stephanie Nugent

    To support video and music production for a dance work to premier at New Dance at Saint Joseph Ballet in February 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Portrait

    Carlos de Oliviera

    Master Musician Fellowship

  • Portrait

    Torie Osborn
    Liberty Hill Foundation

    Stanton Fellowship


  • John Pennington

    To add live music to a dance performance of Dancing the Botanical - Cross Pollination in the Arts at the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino, California in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Joan Perlman

    To add a video installation, From Ice, to a solo exhibition of paintings at the Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art in Iceland in summer/fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Portrait

    Sambath Pich

    Master Musician Fellowship

  • Linda Pollack

    To construct a special sculptural seating unit for an interactive performance of Patriot Acts as part of the series, The Future of Nations, at the 19th Street Arts Center’s Project Room in Santa Monica, California from fall 2007 to spring…
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter


  • Lionel Popkin

    For additional rehearsal of the evening-length choreography, Miniature Fantasies, for performance at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in fall 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Portrait

    Pirayeh Pourafar

    Master Musician Fellowship

  • Paula Present

    To engage set and costume designers for the premiere of the dance work, The Frame of Mind, by PTERO Dance Theatre at the Unknown Theatre in Los Angeles in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter

  • Portrait

    Jagan Ramamoorthy

    Master Musician Fellowship


  • Phil Ranelin

    To engage saxophonist Wendell Harrison for the performance of the jazz work Sweets for Melba at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles in spring 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    First Quarter

  • Jessica Rath

    For additional speakers, sound engineering and the construction of a spiral wall for the installation Bird Knocking at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, California in the winter and spring of 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Jennifer Rochlin

    To ship additional paintings and to travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for an exhibition at the Institute of Visual Arts in the fall of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Portrait

    William “Blinky” Rodriguez
    Communities in Schools in North Hills

    Sabbatical


  • Joseph Santarromana

    To hire a camera operator, a sound operator and sound sweetening for the installation “Malambing Thang” in the exhibition Humor Us at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in the fall of 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Portrait

    Laurie Schell
    California Alliance for Arts Education

    Sabbatical

  • Kyungmi Shin

    To support a video component of the solo installation Rich in the project gallery at the 18th Street Arts Center in spring 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Susan Simpson

    To engage a lighting designer and for additional rehearsal time for the performance of the puppet play Frankenstein: Mortal Toys at HERE Arts Center in New York City in January of 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter


  • Portrait

    Frank Simpson

    Master Musician Fellowship

  • Jim Skuldt

    For amplifiers, light gels and travel to oversee the installation of Distribution I: 2-ton Speaker Cluster, Cranked at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, New York in January of 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Third Quarter

  • Portrait

    Beth Steckler
    Livable Places, Inc.

    Stanton Fellowship

  • Portrait

    Norma Stoker-Mtume
    SHIELDS for Families, Inc.

    Stanton Fellowship


  • Portrait

    Debra Suh
    Center for the Pacific Asian Family

    Sabbatical

  • Mary Trunk

    For color correction and final mix of the film Plain Art to be screened at the Fargo Film Festival in North Dakota in March 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Portrait

    Ivan Varimezov

    Master Musician Fellowship

  • Kristina Wong

    To hire a technical director and a dramaturg for the solo show Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, to be performed in New York City for the National Asian American Theater Festival in summer 2007.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Second Quarter


  • Meeson Pae Yang

    For additional materials to expand the installation Encoding as part of the exhibition Systems Theory at the Torrance Museum of Art in California in January 2008.
    Artists’ Resource for Completion
    Fourth Quarter

  • Portrait

    Arturo Ybarra
    Watts Century Latino Organization

    Sabbatical


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