COLA-IMAP competitive applicants are:
- Individual artists or independent duos, who are professional masters of self-evolved ideas (not curators, presenters, or interpreters of other artists’ works, and not artists who have primarily built their credentials within collaborative groups or within social practices). Because of the special nature of careers in dance, applicants who are solo choreographer-dancers need only show eight years of progressive work; If the art practice involves groups, interactivity with a specific type of person, or is conceptualized to be sited in a self-selected place, then please apply to DCA’s NEAR grant (Neighborhood Engagement Artists Residency). Proposed projects are deemed INELIGIBLE if they: are collaboratively made, and interactive with the audiences or other artists (but not including technicians or fabricators).
- Submitting one proposal as a solo performer in one of the following categories: design/visual artist (including architect, graphic designer, and product designer such as fashion designer), literary artist (poet or fiction writer) or performing artist (solo choreographer-dancer, solo composer-musician, solo theatrical performing artist, or multidisciplinary performing artist);
- Current residents of Los Angeles County, that also demonstrate on their resumes that they either live in the City of LA or have a 3 or more year history of presenting work in the City of Los Angeles; and
- Professionals who illustrate on their resume at least 15 years (8 years for choreographer-dancers) of a progressive, ongoing exhibition, publication, or performance record. This may include post-secondary student presentations and does not need to be 15 (or 8) consecutive years.
COLA-IMAP funds cannot support:
- individual artists who live outside Los Angeles County or cannot demonstrate a residential, studio, or presentation relationship to the City of Los Angeles
- individual artists whose submitted resumes do not adequately demonstrate the required number of years of exhibition, publication, or performance history
- individuals who have previously been granted a COLA Fellowship and/or COLA IMAP Grant
- individuals enrolled in a degree or certificate program during the grant cycle
- proposed projects that are interactive, collaborative, or sited in places selected by the applicant-artist (If your project involves groups, interactivity with specific types of persons, or sited in a self-selected place, then you should be crafting your proposal in the DCA’s Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR) category
- applicants who are non-professionals and produce art as a hobby
- individuals whose presentation-history demonstrates that they primarily create work within ensemble or through group-processes
- projects that remunerate current full-time employees, part-time employees or Commissioners of DCA.