Kala Art Institute’s mission is to help artists sustain their creative work over time through its Artist-in-Residence and Fellowship Programs, and to engage the community through exhibitions, public programs, and education. As a vital, California art-making hub, Kala’s mission is supporting artists and engaging the community. It offers professional facilities to those working in and across print and digital media, new media, and performance. Artists at Kala are encouraged to work across disciplines, produce innovative artwork of the highest quality, and are given total freedom to realize their artistic vision. Kala fosters a fresh approach to experimentation, as artists investigate the interface of digital work, work made by hand, work made in the studio, performance-based work that engages the community and everything in between. A spirit of exchange and education is nurtured through all Kala’s community programs.
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Kala Artist Residency Studio - Protest Prints
Dahn Gim. Kala Gallery, Threading Pages, Kala Fellowship Residency Projects Exhibition, photo credit: James Ken Butler
Malisa Humphrey, Kala Gallery, Threading Pages, Kala Fellowship Residency Projects Exhibition, photo credit: James Ken Butler
Yen-hua Lee, Kala Gallery, Threading Pages, Kala Fellowship Residency Projects Exhibition, photo credit: James Ken Butler
“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”