Getty gives CCF $150,000

The California Community Foundation has received a $150,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to co-sponsor a retrospective of work done by Los Angeles County visual artists who have received CCF fellowship funds during the organization’s 20-year history.

“Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Individual Artists in L.A,” at the Japanese American National Museum from Oct. 4 through Jan. 11, 2009, will feature such past CCF recipients as Lari Pittman, Jim Isermann, Rachel Rosenthal and Daniel J. Martinez. This year’s fellowships, announced in May, awarded a total of $280,000 to 15 local artists.