Performances
Exhibition opens to public
Thursday, July 17
11:00am to 4:00pm
COLA 25 Reception
Saturday, July 19
4:00 to 6:00pm
Jemima Wyman, Collective Art Making Activity
Artist Talk at 2:30pm
Saturday, July 26, 2025
12:00 to 3:00pm
Olivia Booth, Drawing Workshop
Saturday, August 16, 2025
12:00 to 3:00pm
Flora Kao, Lotus Origami Making Class
Saturday August 23, 2025
12:00 to 3:00pm
Curator Walkthrough & Closing Reception
Saturday, August 30, 2025
2:00 to 4:00pm
About
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is pleased to present COLA 2025, the artist exhibition of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Independent Master Artist Project (COLA IMAP) Grant Program. COLA 2025 marks the twenty-eighth edition of the COLA IMAP Grant Program, celebrating the creative visions of nine exceptional Los Angeles-based artists in visual, literary, and performing arts. COLA 2025, includes Carmen Argote, Olivia Booth, Bryan Ida, Flora Kao, and Jemima Wyman, who will debut bold new works ranging from video, sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, and installation with the freedom to center their core artistic impulses.
This non-thematic exhibition presents a diverse assembly of artworks, offering viewers a rich and in-depth exploration of each artist’s individual practice. The works span a wide range of themes, including the history and application of glass, a fever-dream study of Barnsdall Art Park, portraits composed of legal language, visual strategies like camouflage shared by both the natural world and social movements, and culturally specific mourning rituals amplified through scale and color to connect with broader global histories. This constellation of artists exemplifies the complexity, rigor, and poignancy that Los Angeles-based artists bring to local communities and the international stage. COLA 2025, the COLA IMAP design and visual artists exhibition continues the DCA Grants Division’s mission to directly support artists, while honoring Los Angeles’s rich artistic legacy, and reinforcing its status as a global hub for the arts.
