2025 Los Angeles Wildfire Artist Resources
Services & Relief Funding
- Wilhardt & Naud is offering free studio space through February and discounted long-term space for storage. DM @wilhardtnaud on Instagram or email info@wilhardtnaud.com.
- Arcadia Art Consultancy is offering pro bono aid for damages and loss claims to artists who have experienced damage to their inventories. DM @arcadiaartconsultancy, call/text at (704)-807-1041, or email claire@arcadiaappraisals.com.
- Joyce Art Management is offering free collection management support (art insurance claim inventory spreadsheets, insurance consultations, conservation connections, etc.). Email info@joyceartmanagement.com to schedule or for more information.
Supplies
- Adam Alessi is accepting and distributing donations of art supplies and equipment for artists, musicians, and creatives in need. DM @adam_alessi or email artistreliefla@gmail.com.
- Make Room LA is accepting donations for general items and art supplies. and will host a separate art. DM @makeroom.la or text the team at 213-697-9422 to coordinate.
- Super Chief LA’s community and art supply drive is open daily for donations from 12-7 pm. Contact Celina Rodriguez at celina@thecelinarodriguez.com to volunteer.
Relief Funding
- Other Places Art Fair’s Emergency Micro Grant for LA Artists and Art Spaces is accepting applications for $100, $150, or $200 grants for artists and art spaces in immediate need. If you would like to contribute to the fund, DM @otherplacesartfair on Instagram, email opaf.info@opaf.info, or Venmo @otherplacesartfair.
- The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant provides painters, sculptors, and printmakers who are a minimum of ten years into their practice with a one-time grant of up to $15,000 in the event of an unforeseen, catastrophic event.
- Craft Emergency Relief Fund supports individual craft artists with $3000 emergency relief grants.
- Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grants is a multi-disciplinary program that supports visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature. Grants range from $500 to $3000 in amount.
Donation Campaigns
- Grief & Hope: Help Rebuild the Lives of LA’s Artists and Art Workers is a GoFundMe created by Art World Fire Relief (artists Kathryn Andrews and Andrea Bowers, gallerists Ariel Pittman and Olivia Gauthier, and arts professional Julia V. Hendrickson) to provide immediate support for the Los Angeles art community. Their efforts include a survey assessing the most urgent needs of those affected and another survey regarding mutual aid contributions from the greater community.
- Over 70 Los Angeles-based artists and their families are seeking support on GoFundMe can be found here.
- A list of over 90 artists and their families in need, mutual aid resources, and donation sites collected by Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles can be found here.
- Zorthian Ranch, an Altadena-based artist community and farm, is seeking donations to rebuild their property on GoFundMe.
- This GoFundMe is created by No Canyon Hills, a community coalition advocating against the proposed “Canyon Hills” luxury development across 300+ acres of significant ecological habitat in the Verdugo Mountains of Los Angeles.
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