The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) has announced the recipients of the 2022/23 City of Los Angeles Individual Master Artist Project (COLA IMAP).
These ten master artists will each produce a series, set, or singular new artwork with a grant of $10,000 from the city. The original works will be premiered and promoted by the DCA in the spring of 2023 as part of the 26th edition of this annual initiative.
“The COLA IMAP grants serve as catalysts for the development of new artworks by a selection of the city’s master artists and allow L.A.’s residents and visitors to celebrate their creative talent,” said Daniel Tarica, interim general manager of the DCA. “This program represents an important recognition of these artists’ outstanding ability and experience with engaging others through their works.”
The 2022/23 COLA IMAP recipients are:
Performing and Literary Artists: Daniel Corral, Alia Mohamed, Jasmine Orpilla, David Ulin
Design and Visual Artists: Patricia Fernández, Wakana Kimura, Michael Massenburg, Duane Paul, Elyse Pignolet, Kyungmi Shin
Each of these COLA IMAP recipients demonstrates an exemplary career-trajectory of more than 15 years of professional public presentations in the L.A. region. In addition, their ongoing creative endeavors and contributions to the community have earned these artists the highest respect from their peers.
COLA-IMAP provides independent artists the opportunity to create new works to be premiered by the city in one or more group presentations (catalog, exhibition, or performance showcase). This is one of the many grant-categories offered annually by DCA, all of which honor the synergetic relationship between Los Angeles and its creative entrepreneurs, the spectrum of our collective cultural history, and the city’s status as a global center of creative talent.
Daniel Corral is a Filipino/American born composer/performer born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. He came to Los Angeles in 2005 as a percussionist/composer. In Los Angeles, his unique voice finds outlet in accordion orchestras, multimedia microtonal electronics, puppet operas, handmade music boxes, site-specific sound installations, chamber music, and various collaborations.
Corral’s music has been commissioned and presented by venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sundance Film Festival, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Joe’s Pub, REDCAT, Iceland University of the Arts, Mengi, Harpa, MATA, HERE Arts Center, Miami Light Project, Operadagen Rotterdam, Wayward Music, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Synchromy, Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Göteborg Art Sound Festival, USC Thornton School of Music, Center for New Music, CSUN College of Arts, Pianospheres, Automata Los Angeles, Machine Project, SASSAS, the wulf., Pasadena All Saints Choir, Santa Monica GLOW Festival, CalArts, UCSD School of Music, Carlsbad Music Festival, and the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts. Info: https://danielcorral.com/
Jasmine Orpilla is a multiplicitous Ilokana/x-American vocal performance artist and operatic composer of experimental theatrical sound installations, in which she activates her lifelong practices of folk ritual dance, combat systems, and music of the Philippine diaspora against the contemporary American framing of the first-generation, imperialist, military culture of her own childhood.
Unlimited by “soprano” nor so-called classical beauty, her unfiltered voice-in-motion exorcizes eurocentric performance structures from her muscle memory, while remaining accountable to the oral legacies and languages of the Indigenous Pilipino musical systems she, her family, and community remains indebted to. With decades embodying center with her energetically intensive solo practice as a multi-instrumental and multilingual writer/performer, Orpilla’s work serves to humanize and honor the intersectionality of the Filipina/x-American…
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