January 7, 2021
The City of West Hollywood announces three $5,000 grant awards, totaling $15,000, for three resident artists for its 2021 WeHo Artist Grant program: Tristan Kilmer, Samantha Lavin, and Antonio Rael.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to reshape the reality of life in the City of West Hollywood and communities around the world, artists and arts organizations are among those severely impacted. The WeHo Artist Grant program, initiated in 2018, is extraordinary in that it provides direct support for individual artists living in the City of West Hollywood, which is especially significant at this uncertain time.
The WeHo Artist Grant aims to nurture and support the long-term development of an artist's ideas by providing funds that increase the capacity for artists to realize work, advance the conditions of creation, and navigate the complexities of both making art and making a career. In providing WeHo Artist Grant awards to individual artists, the City of West Hollywood aims to keep artists in the City of West Hollywood, to attract new artists to the City, and to contribute to the quality of daily life in the City. WeHo Artist Grant funding is approved by the City Council of the City of West Hollywood and the City's Performing Arts and Cultural Affairs Subcommittee reviews eligible applications and makes recommendations to the City's Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission to approve funding for WeHo Artist Grant awards.
Detailed information about the 2021 WeHo Artist Grant award recipients is as follows:
Tristan Kilmer — is a senior industry artist who received a BFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation. His professional work includes being a Previsualization Artist at Digital Domain (on Star Trek Picard and Freeguy), Animator at Halon (for Disintegration and Borderlands 3 cinematics), Key Layout Artist at MPC (for Detective Pikachu, Aquaman, Dumbo, The Predator, and many more), and an Animation Director at One Roof Entertainment (for 2001: An Edm Odyssey). He hopes that this grant will allow him to improve the performance of his digital actors. This kind of work is called virtual production; it allows filmmakers to be able to create digital actors and cameras in a volumetric space anywhere in which we can upload, and with the wonders of computer graphics be able to bring any world from our imagination to life.
Samantha Lavin — is an award winning DGA director, assistant director and writer who has worked on film and television projects including: "Lucifer," "The Mayor," and "Criminal Minds." She has served on the Lesbian and Gay Advisory board of West Hollywood as well as Women for Sobriety Center; an organization serving formerly incarcerated women. She intends to utilize the grant to continue to create and build opportunities for other artists to do the same. She believes that film making is such a collaborative process that making one within a community like West Hollywood is a natural fit to boost community engagement, help those without access to the usual ways to get film experience as well as highlight the diversity of the city.
Antonio Rael — is a visual artist who has been a resident of West Hollywood for the past 30 years. He has created artwork and donated artwork for causes in the LGBTQ community. He hopes that this grant will support the creation of new paintings, which bring positive imagery to the community. For example, his acrylic on canvas work created in 1999 entitled "Las Memorias" / "Memories" is an homage to friends and family who passed from AIDS.
Previous recipients of the WeHo Artist Grant include, in 2020: Carolyn Campbell; Fletcher Crossman; Carolina Hoyos; Ryan McCann; Felice Picano; and Don Tinling; and in 2019: Matthew Finley; Rachael Mason; Brian McCarty; and Steven Reigns.
On Thursday, December 10, 2020, the City of West Hollywood held a virtual event highlighting the accomplishments of the 2020 WeHo Artist Grant recipients. Members of the City Council of the City of West Hollywood joined the WeHo Artist Grant recipients to celebrate their achievements during their grant period. Each of the artists shared stories of the challenges they faced as the year took shape as well as how they were able to find unexpected opportunities, grow as artists, and learn entirely new paradigms — fueling their creative spirit. A video from the event is viewable on the City of West Hollywood's WeHo Arts YouTube channel at www.bit.ly/wehoartsYT.
The City of West Hollywood is committed to providing accessible arts programming for residents and visitors. The City delivers a broad array of arts programs through its Arts Division including: Art on the Outside (temporary public art), Urban Art Program (permanent public art), Summer Sounds, Winter Sounds, WeHo Reads, Free Theatre in the Parks, Arts Grants for Artists and Nonprofit Arts Organizations, Library Exhibits and Programming, the City Poet Laureate Program, Human Rights Speakers Series, and the One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival.
For more information about the City of West Hollywood's Arts Grant Program, please visit www.weho.org/arts or contact Eva Angeloff, Grants Coordinator in the City of West Hollywood's Arts Division, at (323) 848-6354 or at eangeloff@weho.org.
The City of West Hollywood has declared a local emergency in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Individuals are advised, at this time, to stay at home as much as possible and limit close interactions to those in your household. When in public for essential needs, community members should maintain your space with social (physical) distancing of at least six feet, and cover your face. Public Health officials recommend that everyone continue to follow physical distancing and infection control directives and wear a clean face covering that securely covers both your nose and mouth when in in public. Additionally, people 65 years old or older and all people of any age with underlying health conditions should remain at home whenever possible; people in these categories should only leave their residences to seek medical care, exercise, or obtain food or other necessities.
West Hollywood City Hall is currently closed to the public and has suspended all in-person transactions. Most public City buildings and facilities remain closed. City Hall remains accessible for business and essential services with transactions to be conducted by phone (323) 848-6400 and via the City's website at www.weho.org.
City of West Hollywood coronavirus updates are available at www.weho.org/coronavirus and the City encourages community members to follow @wehocity on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and turn on notifications. For up-to-date news and events, follow the City of West Hollywood on social media @WeHoCity, sign up for news updates at www.weho.org/email and visit the City's calendar of meetings and events at www.weho.org/calendar.
For reporters and members of the media seeking additional information about the City of West Hollywood, please contact the City of West Hollywood's Public Information Officer, Sheri A. Lunn, at (323) 848-6391 or slunn@weho.org.
This press release was produced by the City of West Hollywood. The views expressed here are the author's own.
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