The City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship by the DCA (Department of Cultural Affairs) allows accomplished artists to create new work with increased freedom to innovate and experiment in the disciplines of design, visual arts, literary arts, and performing arts.
Grand Performances presents live showcases by 2026 COLA Artist Fellows:
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DaEun Jung
DaEun Jung is a Korean-born dancer-choreographer currently based in Los Angeles. She interlaces forms, principles, and methods of her ancestral and contemporary performance practices within her self-constructed system.
Jung’s work has been supported by New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), Jacob’s Pillow, Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP), Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Movement Research at Judson Church, Korea Foundation, and New Music USA. Her residencies include Headlands Center for the Arts, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), Loghaven Artist Residency, UCROSS, L.A. Dance Project (LADP), and Santa Monica Cultural Affairs at Camera Obscura.
Juliette Jones
Juliette Jones is a Los Angeles-based violinist, composer, arranger, and cultural entrepreneur whose work sits at the intersection of orchestral excellence, hip hop culture, and community-centered storytelling. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Wondersmith Entertainment, a Black women-led music production company specializing in music contracting and musician coordination, and the Founding CEO of Passing the Crown Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit amplifying women in music, dance, and production.
Truth Be Told: The Ancestral Prelude to Passing the Crown is her newest work, developed through the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs' COLA-IMAP Individual Artist Fellowship.
Rogê
Rogê - Grand Performances (COLA Fellowship), June 26, 2026. As part of his City of Los Angeles COLA Artist Fellowship, Rogê presents a special one-night performance at Grand Performances in Downtown Los Angeles on June 26. For this occasion, Rogê will debut Sebastiões, an unreleased project featuring original compositions performed live for the first time. The work brings to life a series of characters inspired by Rio de Janeiro, told through diverse perspectives that reflect the city’s spirit, contradictions, and humanity. A tribute to his hometown - officially named São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro - Sebastiões offers an intimate and powerful new chapter in Rogê’s storytelling, blending his signature rhythms with vivid, character-driven narratives.
About the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)
As a leading, progressive arts and cultural agency, DCA empowers Los Angeles’s vibrant communities by supporting and providing access to quality visual, literary, musical, performing, and educational arts programming; managing vital cultural centers; preserving historic sites; creating public art; and funding services provided by arts organizations and individual artists. Formed in 1925, DCA promotes arts and culture as a way to ignite a powerful dialogue, engage LA’s residents and visitors, and ensure LA’s varied cultures are recognized, acknowledged, and experienced. DCA’s mission is to strengthen the 6 quality of life in Los Angeles by stimulating and supporting arts and cultural activities, ensuring public access to the arts for residents and visitors alike. DCA advances the social and economic impact of arts and culture through grantmaking; public art; community arts; performing arts; and strategic marketing, development, design, and digital research. DCA creates and supports arts programming, maximizing relationships with other city agencies, artists, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to provide excellent service in neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles. For more information, please visit culture.lacity.gov or follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/culturela, Instagram @culture_la, and Twitter @culture_la.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.