About
The Artist Projects of Los Angeles (TAP/LA) was a 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organization founded in 2015 by Lexa Safran in response to the disconnect between Angelenos and the community of working artists throughout the city. The principal mission was to provide unrestricted artists grants for local artists. These grants were supported by TAP/LA’s board of directors and collectors’ group which met for intimate salons in private homes and after-hours galleries through LA to raise funds and discuss the various aspects of building a personal collection. Within one year, TAP/LA funded seven $10,000 unrestricted artists grants and an educational fellowship for emerging artists.
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Previous Work
Collectors Club Events: intimate cocktail parties with a panel discussion of art world luminaries held in private homes throughout Los Angeles. Examples? Blackman cruz, old master well.
In 2018, TAP/LA awarded $10,000 unrestricted grants to the following artists: Emily Mast, Candice Lin, Christina Fernandez, Gail Swanlund, and Sarah Williams. Working closely with our panel of advisors, the artists were selected from a pool of nominations by a committee of independent and institutional curators, Irene Tsatsos, Jamillah James, John Spiak, and Rebecca McGrew.
In 2017, TAP/LA funded a grant for SPArt initiating artist XX XXX Water Project.
In 2016, TAP/LA provided support to the visual artists in The Industry’s experimental opera, Hopscotch.
