Los Angeles Performance Practice

05/29/2026

Applications are due June 6 for the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships. ✨

Los Angeles Performance Practice is proud to serve as the Administering Organization for the Individual Artist Fellowships in Los Angeles County for the 2025-2027 cycle. We are distributing $800,000 in unrestricted fellowship awards to artists of all disciplines, in three tiers: Emerging Artists ($5K) | Established Artists ($10K) | Legacy Artists ($50K).

For more information and to apply, visit performancepractice.la/cac-iaf or the link in our bio.

Applications are due by Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific Time, and submitting early is encouraged.

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05/23/2026

JUST ADDED!! A bonus session of Virtual Office Hours for the Individual Artist Fellowship. Come ask LAPP staff any and all questions about the application process! Wednesday, May 27, 4pm-5:30pm on Zoom. Come for all or part. LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER! ✨

05/01/2026

Meet ACCELERATOR artist Tanya White! - LINK IN BIO

ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.

ACCELERATOR cohort member Tanya White is a theater artist working and performing as a playwright, actor, director and teacher. She’s a frequent contributor to storytelling shows in Los Angeles and believes the personal narrative is the foundation for healing collective trauma. She is currently the Artistic Director of Santa Monica Repertory Theater.

“Making work and creating spaces to share it matters. The act of sharing is just as important as the content. We need to honor interiority, connect in ways that go beyond words, and keep responding to the world as it is.”

Link in bio for the full interview.

04/30/2026

It’s that time of year! Los Angeles Performance Practice is hiring a paid intern to assist us with administering the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships. This is an exceptional opportunity for an outstanding undergrad or spring 2026 grad to gain hands-on experience at an artist-led nonprofit. Together, we will run an application and review process that will lead to re-granting $800,000 to Los Angeles-based artists.

This year's internship begins the first week of June, and ends in early September. The intern will work approximately 400 hours (30 hrs / week), at $18.47/hr. The internship is supported by the Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program.

How to Apply: Please submit a thoughtful letter of interest after researching our organization, along with a current resume, to [email protected]. Be sure to include your name, pronouns, full contact information, educational institution, and expected year of graduation.

Know a young person who is detail-oriented, a quick reader, collaborative, and passionate about the arts? Tag them!

✨ Please apply no later than May 9, 2026. ✨

04/21/2026

Thinking of applying to the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships? Want to refine your application and have the opportunity to ask questions? Los Angeles Performance Practice is offering a series of Virtual Office Hours on Zoom. Get empowered with skills that will bolster this (and future!) applications.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM — Artist Statements
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM — Work Samples
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM — Learning from a CAC Individual Artist Fellowship Awardee: Process, Practice, and Impact

LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER.
Register for individual sessions or all three.

The Individual Artist Fellowship for Region 6 (Los Angeles County) is a program of the California Arts Council administered by Los Angeles Performance Practice.

This activity is funded by the California Arts Council, a state agency.

04/20/2026

Calling all Los Angeles County artists and culture bearers! In partnership with the California Arts Council, Los Angeles Performance Practice is proud to serve as the Administering Organization for the Individual Artist Fellowships in Los Angeles County for the 2025–2027 cycle.

Los Angeles Performance Practice is distributing $800,000 in unrestricted fellowship awards to artists in three tiers: Emerging Artists ($5K) | Established Artists ($10K) | Legacy Artists ($50K).

Applications are open April 20 – June 6, 2026.

For more information and to apply, visit performancepractice.la/cac-iaf or the link in our bio.

Our first in-person information session is in Glendale tomorrow, 4/21! tinyurl.com/iaf-infosessions or visit the link in our bio.

Online information sessions begin April 28.

This activity is funded by the California Arts Council, a state agency.

04/18/2026

L.A. County artists! Applications open Monday 4/20 for the California Arts Council's Individual Artist Fellowships. $800K in unrestricted funding across three career levels. All disciplines welcome. Apply by June 6. Want to learn more? Attend one of the following in-person info sessions or visit performancepractice.la/cac-iaf

Tues April 21 | 3:30–5:00 PM — Antaeus Theatre, Glendale
Fri April 24 | 1:00–2:30 PM — Compton Library, Compton
Fri May 1 | 3:30–5:00 PM — Pacoima Library, Pacoima
Thurs May 12 | 3:30–5:00 PM — Malabar Branch Library, LA
Tue May 17 | 3:30–5:00 PM — Hyde Park Library, LA

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This activity is funded by the California Arts Council, a state agency.

04/15/2026

Los Angeles Performance Practice is thrilled to announce that we are a recipient of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts' 2026 Infinite Expansion Grant. This grant will support "Requiem: por las almas que nacen de la luna" by San Cha, with rafa esparza and Darian Donovan Thomas: a large-scale, immersive performance installation, which reimagines the requiem form through a q***r Latinx lens, blending music, installation, and collective ritual into an act of mourning and celebration. Nine Los Angeles County contemporary art organizations were awarded funding to support their projects that exemplify risk-taking, critical inquiry, and community engagement.

“Before news of the Mike Kelley Foundation grant, we were already thinking big, but this support has fundamentally shifted our horizon. It has empowered Los Angeles Performance Practice and me and my collaborators rafa esparza and Darian Donovan Thomas to realize the show of our dreams, a space where everything is truly possible,” said artist San Cha. “As artists, that is an incredibly exciting and liberating place to be; it feels like we are finally living the dream we’ve been building toward.”

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts advances the artist’s spirit of critical thinking, risk-taking, and provocation in the arts. Established by Kelley in 2007, the Foundation seeks to further Kelley’s philanthropic work through grants to arts organizations and artists for innovative projects that reflect his multifaceted artistic practice. The Foundation also preserves the artist’s legacy more broadly and fosters the understanding of his life and creative achievements through educational initiatives including exhibitions, educational events, publications, and the preservation and care of the Foundation’s art collections and archives.

Photo by Angel Origgi courtesy of REDCAT.

04/01/2026

02/25/2026

Meet ACCELERATOR artist Emma Irene Olson! .irene - LINK IN BIO

ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.

Cohort member Emma Irene Olson (she/they) is a q***r multidisciplinary performance artist whose work explores themes of self, perception, ego, authority, anti-capitalism, and consciousness, while being rooted in love, connection, nature, and play.

Of her inspirations, Emma Irene says, “Clown has taken a lot of pressure off my own work, and it made me less afraid of how I’ll be received and more willing to take risks without needing things to feel polished.”

Link in bio for the full interview.