Mike Kelley Foundation For The Arts

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.

Mary Stevens

Executive Director

18 past transactions

Side Street Projects

Grant in 2022
Side Street Projects is an entirely mobile artist-run organization that connects artists directly to communities through socially-engaged artist projects.

Clockshop

Grant in 2022
Clockshop is an arts and culture organization that seeks to generate social change through the transformation of public space.
18th Street Arts Center is one of the top artist residency programs and Performance & event venue platforms.
Armory Center For the Arts is a non-profit community arts organization that offers arts education programs and contemporary art exhibitions.
Feminist Center for Creative Work is an intersectional feminist art organization that produces and platforms the work of Black, Indigenous, People of color, queer and trans, low-income, immigrant, and disabled women and nonbinary artists.

LAXART

Grant in 2022
LAXART is a nonprofit visual art space that promotes developments in contemporary culture through exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
Pieter is a non-profit organization that provides a space for dancers to create a nurturing society. Based on holistic support for all bodies, an open exchange of ideas, and reciprocity of generosity, Pieter is a place to be comfortable in the body-mind-spirit.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions is a nonprofit venue that exhibits and advocates for innovations in art-making and public engagement.

Craft Contemporary

Grant in 2022
Craft Contemporary reveals the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower.

JOAN

Grant in 2022
JOAN is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit art space for exhibitions, performances, and screenings. Founded in 2015 by three female curators, and inspired by the history of feminist performance spaces, JOAN supports experimental practices that exist outside of commercial contexts.

Active Cultures

Grant in 2022
Active Cultures is a nonprofit dedicated to the artistic exploration of global foodways —the attitudes, practices, histories, and rituals around what we consume.

Fulcrum Arts

Grant in 2022
Fulcrum Arts champion creative and critical thinkers at the intersection of art and science to provoke positive social change and contribute to a more vibrant and inclusive community.
Los Angeles Poverty Department is a non-profit arts organization, the first performance group in the nation made up principally of homeless people.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is an epicenter of artistic experimentation and incubator of new ideas.

Beyond Baroque

Grant in 2022
Beyond Baroque are the independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature, and art through cultural events and community interaction.
Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change.

LA Freewaves

Grant in 2022
LA Freewaves is a nonprofit organization that advocates for, and exhibits, new, uncensored, independent media.
Highways Performance Space is Southern California’s boldest center for new performance. It continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages radical artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative new works.
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