{"id":52,"date":"2015-09-09T01:06:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/air\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:32:31","slug":"grant-amounts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/grant-amounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Amount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending upon the City\u2019s budget, COLA-IMAP awards of <strong>$10,000<\/strong> are recommended to selected individual artists in May-June of the year following application. In difficult budget times the DCA may determine whether to fund fewer than 8 applicants, and\/or wait-list selected artists to the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed COLA projects should be primarily solo in nature, although performing artists may include a small number of unaffiliated players on stage to fulfill their vision. Honoraria to compensate these players must be budgeted within the $10,000 grant. COLA IMAP is not a category for groups or ensembles.<\/p>\n<p>Selected artists will be legally contracted to submit materials toward a catalog the City will produce to promote the career accomplishments of the artists. Grantees must use their COLA IMAP funding toward the creation of new solo works, which the City would also aim to premiere via an online expo, gallery exhibition, and\/or a performance showcase.<\/p>\n<p>All COLA-IMAP projects must culminate in a public premiere by DCA of next work (not previously created or released in any way) and finished in the last eight months. COLA-IMAP artists are encouraged to invest in producing tours, studio recordings and films of these same new works in the following years after the work is created and presented for a COLA stipend. Dancers applying for dance films should do so under the visual design category and prepare their film to compete against other media artists. Dance films are presented in the LA Municipal Art Gallery (as a video installation), and not at Grand Performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending upon the City\u2019s budget, COLA-IMAP awards of $10,000 are recommended to selected individual artists in May-June of the year following application. In difficult budget times the DCA may determine whether to fund fewer than 8 applicants, and\/or wait-list selected artists to the following year. Proposed COLA projects should be primarily solo in nature, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7Q6Tc-Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/cola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}