Supporting Individual Artists: Ten Years, Ten Lessons

The Durfee Foundation’s ARC program — Artists’ Resource for Completion — is, you might say, a program designed to let a thousand flowers bloom. It was founded in 2000 to serve Los Angeles artists, in any discipline and at any career level. The data from the surveys has suggested the need for modifications to the program. The narrative responses cut to the chase. Thoughtful, informed, funny, heartfelt, and occasionally snarky, they describe clearly what artists find to be helpful in grant opportunities, and what they don’t.