Organizations in Residence

18th Street Art Center's Residency Program is similar to an arts incubator, in that we provide subsidized live and work space for arts organizations and artists. The services to our residents include free administrative and fundraising consultation services; an office equipment co-op and community resources exchange in which residents contribute a service or resource; volunteers; and meeting facilities. In addition, 18th Street's works to bring residents greater public recognition and paid presenting opportunities through our programs and events. The combined benefits of the Residency Program helps residents put more of their financial resources and time towards their art practice while working in a stimulating and supportive environment. Since our founding year 1988, we have provided a home to 20 arts organizations and 43 individual artists.

Residents of the Los Angeles area are eligible to apply for the Residency Program. Foreign artists from Australia, Eastern Europe, Taiwan and Southeast Asia may also be eligible for our International Visiting Artist Program by applying through cooperative programs with outside government agencies and private foundation.

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	California Lawyers for the Arts California Lawyers for the Arts (C.L.A.) is a nonprofit organization that provides artists of all disciplines, and arts organizations, with a wide range of legal services at fees that are affordable. VIEW >>
	Celebration Arts Michelle Berne's work incorporates music and dance with monumentally-scaled fabric and papier mache sculpture, giant puppets, masks, costumes and body adornments to co-create colorful and imaginative community events. VIEW >>
	Continuum Montage Continuum Montage explores the body and self as fluid processes in interaction with an ever-changing environment. VIEW >>
	Continuum Movement Studio This theater of life becomes the source of continuous well-being, wisdom and creative imagination. Continuum offers a wide range of classes, workshops, retreats and professional programs. VIEW >>
	Electronic Cafe International Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Co-Founders. Founded in the Orwellian year of 1984, ECI is the mother of all cybercafes, a unique international network of multimedia telecommunications venues with over forty affiliates around the globe. VIEW >>
	EZTV Created in 1979, EZTV has had its video and media art screened internationally at a variety of venues. SIGGRAPH and the American Film Institute ( Los Angeles ), which honored EZTV with a career retrospective, declaring it "some of the core pioneers and advocates of digital technology in the moving image arts". VIEW >>
	Highways Performance Space Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. In its seventeenth year, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works. VIEW >>
	Lightning BoltPix Michael Barnard has been making films, artworks, and music for over thirty years. He has published poetry and other writings in a variety of journals and books, including most recently an essay in the McGraw-Hill book "Wisdom from the East" edited by Susan Suntree. VIEW >>
	Otis College The MFA Graduate Studies: Public Practices is an important aspect of this overall pan, providing a state of the art program that introduces graduate students to the theory and practice of community engagement through visual, performance, and publilc arts. VIEW >>
	Tearsheets Productions Joan's performance art explores the politics of wealth, race, gender, aging and sexuality. VIEW >>