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Contemporary Collectors Orange County is a not-for-profit,
philanthropic, invitational-membership organization composed
of patrons, fellows, trustees, and major donors of a wide
spectrum of Southern California, regional and national museums,
including the Orange County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary
of Art Los Angeles, The Huntington Library, Art Gallery and
Botanical Gardens, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the
University Art Museum, CSULB, Laguna Art Museum and others.
Through
educational travel, special programs, salons and membership,
the group raises funds to provide annual fellowships for emerging
or under-recognized mid-career artists. In addition to the
fellowships, CCOC supports the programs of various Southern
California museums. Most recently funds were awarded to the
Laguna
Art Museum, supporting BEST KEPT SECRET:UCI AND THE DEVELOPMENT
OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1964-1971 and
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to support the major
2011 retrospective, DAVID SMITH: CUBES AND ANARCHY.
Exhibition grants were previously awarded to the Museum of
Contemporary Art Los Angeles for WACK!, the historic
exhibition documenting the early years of feminism in the
visual arts, and ALAN KAPROW-ART AS LIFE, an exhibit
devoted to recognizing the importance of Kaprow's work and
developing critical scholarship related to art of the fifties
and sixties. In 2009 the UCLA/Hammer Museum received support
for the catalogue of the landmark survey exhibition RACHEL
WHITEREAD DRAWINGS.
The
membership, limited to 100, includes widely noted collectors,
museum professionals, scholars, authors, and academics whose
specialization is contemporary art. Since 2006, the $10,000
CCOC Fellowship award winners have included Christine Nguyen,
Joel Tauber, Andrea Bowers, Glenn Kaino, Erin Cosgrove, and
the current Fellowship artist, Fran Siegel, who was nominated
by one of the three 2011 jurors, Grace Kook-Anderson. CCOC
is proud to support arts institutions and artists in Southern
California.
membership@contemporary.cc
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