Due to COVID-19, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) are re-imagining the City of Los Angeles (COLA) 2020 Visual Art Exhibition since the physical exhibition will not take place due to the closure of the gallery. DCA is working with the COLA Fellows and catalog designer, Garland Kirkpatrick, to develop and launch the COLA 2020 Online Exhibitions and Performances Program that will premier and showcase the 2020 Fellows new work instead on culturela.org and lamag.org this summer.
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is pleased to present COLA 2020, an exhibition featuring new work by Tanya Aguiñiga, Amir H. Fallah, YoungEun Kim, Elana Mann, Hillary Mushkin, Alison O’Daniel, Vincent Ramos, Shizu Saldamando, Holly Tempo, Jeffrey Vallance and Lisa Diane Wedgeworth. These eleven artists are the recipients of the 2020 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for visual arts. The Fellows were selected by a panel comprising curators, educators, museum directors and past COLA Fellows. The fellowship provides each artist with $10,000 to produce a new body of work, which will be premiered at the COLA 2020 exhibition.
“COLA Fellows are the types of unique civic entrepreneurs that we need in this city,” said DCA General Manager Danielle Brazell. “DCA is proud to honor these creative visionaries and nurture their symbiotic relationship with LA and other artists and the city’s history and identity as an international arts capital.”
The exhibition will be accompanied by public programming as well as a catalog produced by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Marketing, Development, Design, and Digital Research Division and designed by Garland Kirkpatrick, a former COLA awardee.