homeLA receives Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts’ Infinite Expansion Grant
April 28, 2025
The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts (MKFA) today announced the recipients of its first Infinite Expansion Grants (IEG), which will support compelling upcoming projects at contemporary arts organizations across Los Angeles County.
These grants emphasize the resounding impact that arts organizations and artists make in communities they build and the world at large. The grants further the Foundation’s mission of supporting critical thinking, risk-taking, and provocation in the arts through innovative programming and artist projects. homeLA is thrilled to be selected as one of this year’s grantees alongside 18th Street Arts Center, The Brick, CalArts REDCAT, Future Roots/Canary Test, Human Resources Los Angeles, JOAN, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Pieter Performance Space, and Self Help Graphics & Art.
“We are excited to support this exceptional group of organizations, whose work continues to challenge paradigms in the arts,” said Mary Clare Stevens, Executive Director. “By offering larger grants, we can better amplify impact and nurture the visionary spirit our Foundation strives to uplift. These gifts reflect our commitment to supporting groundbreaking work by artists that fosters important conversations and deepens community engagement in Los Angeles and beyond.”
With support of this grant, homeLA will present a site-specific performance and installation at the Rowland Mansion featuring Nao Bustamante, Victoria Marks, Rosa Rodríguez-Frazier, and Eva Aguila. The project will situate these artists in conversation with the La Puente Valley Historical Society to further and more overtly disrupt the dominant monocultural interpretive tendencies of historic sites to reflect the richness of human experience of those who have called the Rowland Mansion and La Puente Valley Rancho home. With practices already critically engaged with the complexities of identity, these artists seek to create work that addresses and challenges dominant societal narratives with art that bridges historical, personal, and collective experiences. Drawing from the Rowland Mansion archive, independent research, community feedback, and personal histories, they will offer alternative narratives to capture the complexity of historical realities of early Southern California settlement. - MKFA Press Release
>>Read more about the grant and the announcement here on the Mike Kelley Foundation website and here in the LA Times.
