By Daily Press staff
The 18th Street Arts Center announced that it has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
The center hopes to develop a program that will diversify the membership of the prestigious International Association of Residential Arts Centres, or Res Artis. This effort will be aimed in the global south: Asia, Africa and South America.
“This grant demonstrates the importance of international dialogue in the arts and culture at the crucial social and political crossroads we all have arrived at,” said 18th Street co-director Clayton Campbell. “Nothing is more important than the inclusion of voices outside Europe and North America in our cultural dialogues and plan-ning.”
Res Artis is a non-profit foundation that supports the work of international residential art centers and organizations, and encourages the development of contemporary art.
The 18th Street Center is the largest non-profit residential arts center in the region with programs in presenting, international exchange, arts education and local artist residences.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 15, 2004. Read the original PDF.