CIMAM with Los Angeles

CIMAM extends its heartfelt support to the people and art institutions of Los Angeles as the city faces the devastation caused by terrible fires.
Less than a month ago, Los Angeles graciously hosted our Annual Conference, welcoming us into its museums, art galleries, and artists' studios with warmth hospitality, and generosity.
It is our heartfelt wish that our host institutions, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), the Hammer Museum at UCLA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Academy Museum, the Getty Foundation, Hauser & Wirth and East West Bank, and all the art institutions and artists' studios we visited, as well as all their communities, remain safe and sound.
We wish all residents to stay safe and sound. Our thoughts are with Los Angeles during this difficult time.

Foundations and Arts Organizations Create $12M LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund
The emergency relief fund will provide critical support for artists and arts workers impacted by the Los Angeles fires.
A coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists in Los Angeles led by the J. Paul Getty Trust, including the Mohn Art Collective (Hammer Museum, LACMA, and MOCA) partnered with East West Bank, today joined with the Mellon Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Qatar Museums, Ford Foundation, and other national and international institutions to announce the creation of the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, an emergency relief fund for artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have lost residences, studios, or livelihoods or have otherwise been impacted by the devastating Los Angeles fires.
The fund will be administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation, a longstanding intermediary providing funding, advocacy, and research support on behalf of individuals in the arts.
The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund has launched with $12 million and is continuing to grow in response to the severe need.
To join the coalition and partner in this initiative, please visit our webpage.
Recognized internationally as a thriving center for all aspects of the arts, Los Angeles has an exceptionally diverse and vibrant community of artists, arts workers, and related professionals. They have been gravely affected as the ongoing fires have destroyed residences, studios, archives, artworks, and places of employment, striking a blow at thousands of individuals and the creative economy of Los Angeles and its region.
Beginning Monday, January 20, artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have been impacted by the fires can go to the Center for Cultural Innovation’s website to apply for an emergency grant. The process is being designed with an understanding of the need to get funds to impacted individuals as rapidly as possible. As the situation evolves, funds raised may eventually be applied to longer-term needs.
The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund is one of several fundraising efforts in Los Angeles and across the nation, which include the artist-initiated Art World Fire Relief LA GoFundMe campaign, the Craft Emergency Relief Fund, the Los Angeles Fire Relief Effort to Support Music Professionals of the Recording Academy and MusiCares, the We Are Moving the Needle Microgrants: Wildfire Relief Fund, the Entertainment Community Fund, and the Motion Picture Television Fund.