LACE: Jacki Apple Award Grant

LACE: Jacki Apple Award Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Amount: US $10,000
Last Updated: August 21, 2025

Summary

The LACE: Jacki Apple Award provides a $10,000 grant to one mid- or late-career artist based in Los Angeles County. This award supports innovative projects in performance, media, exhibition, or publication that engage the public outside traditional settings. Selected artists will be chosen through the Lightning Fund application process, with no additional application required. Eligible candidates must be 18 years or older and not currently enrolled in college.

Overview

NOTE:  One artist will be selected through the Lightning Fund application process for this honor of receiving the Jacki Apple Award. No additional application is required to be considered for this award. Here is the Lightning Fund Artist Grant page. Jacki Apple Award LACE is also accepting applicants for the Jacki Apple Fund, supporting one LA-based mid- or late-career artist with a $10,000 grant for work resulting in performance, media, exhibition, and/or publication within one year of the award. One artist will be selected through the Lightning Fund application process for this honor. The artist selected for the Jacki Apple Award will have the added requirement of being a mid- or late-career artist. No additional application is required to be considered for this award. We are open to innovation, experimentation, and risk-taking in the field and are supportive of diverse approaches to visual art making. Lightning Fund project submissions should be innovative and socially relevant, as well as accessible to the public outside of traditional museum or gallery settings.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Only applicants that are LA County residents, are at least 18 years of age, and are not currently enrolled in a college program, will be considered.Qualified applicant artists are required to live in Los Angeles County and maintain a visual arts practice. We have an expansive definition of visual art practice: in addition to more traditional forms such as drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, and similar mediums, we are also open to artists practicing in film/video, new media, sound art, performance art, and social practice.The artist selected for the Jacki Apple Award will have the added requirement of being a mid- or late-career artist.

Ineligibility

Artists whose practices are firmly rooted in dance, theater, music, or industry/feature filmmaking, and/or nonprofit organizations and LLCs established for commercial enterprise are not eligible to apply.