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• Mission:

The purpose of the Pasadena Art Alliance is to foster appreciation for contemporary visual arts in Southern California by supporting artists, exhibitions, educational programs and art-oriented, non-profit institutions.

• Who We Are:

We are a unique and independent volunteer group that is not aligned with any institution, organization or museum.  For over sixty years, we have enjoyed educating ourselves while exploring and funding visionary ideas and concepts in contemporary art.  This dedication started in 1955 when we initially formed to support the renowned Pasadena Art Museum.  Following the purchase of the museum by Norton Simon, we obtained our own 501(c)(3) non-profit status in 1975 and became independent in terms of support and affiliations.  This gives us unusual freedom in terms of scope and impact that our organization provides through our grants program.  We remain an ever inventive and dynamic organization of over 175 women who share a deep belief in the increasingly diverse and important art of our time.

• What We Do:

We give grants and awards on an annual basis to projects that meet our rigorous process and standards.  Funds are granted to established as well as unconventional institutions, and we pride ourselves on championing the difficult and nontraditional.  We raise funds by holding annual benefits that vary from year to year, but include our time-honored Art Auction and the legendary Treasure Sale.  All monies raised go directly to our grants and award programs.

Since 1976, we have awarded over $7,500,000 to support contemporary art in Southern California.  We believe our grants and awards to institutions, galleries and museums have been vital in helping our community understand and embrace challenging new work in a variety of media.  Los Angeles is now recognized as an international leader in contemporary art.  We think our organization helped make that possible.

Joshua  Holzmann, a native of Milwaukee, is an artist living and working in Los  Angeles, California. His primary mediums are paint and collage. His art  practice employs paint as content and the complicated history that is  tied to the medium through the lens of an African American male. As a  conscientious millennial the artist struggles with putting more objects  into the world. To mitigate these concerns Holzmann uses repurposed  materials and items from his family's daily consumption as the raw  materials for his paintings.
 

Holzmann holds a BFA from ArtCenter and an MFA from the University of  California, Riverside. He has exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum,  Harriet and Kern Gallery, Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University,  Barbara and Art Culver Center for the Arts, Phyllis Gill Gallery at the  University of California Riverside, ArtCenter DTLA and The Honolulu  Museum of Art.

Holzmann is an assistant professor of Art at ArtCenter College of Design.

Associate Professor at ArtCenter College of Design, 

Interim Co Chair Photography and Imaging in 2021 

B.F.A.    Art Center College of Design. Honors in Photography 

B.A.  University of California at San Diego.  Biochemistry + Cell Biology 

Partial List of Clients: 

Nike, Nikon, Lexus, Target, Lee, Pioneer, Kenwood, Ashworth, Ben Hogan Golf, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Medical Review, Nature Conservancy, Bloomberg, Science Magazine, Warner Brothers, MCA, Capital, Sony Music.

Publications and Features include: FotoNostrom, Photo District News, Graphis, Communication Arts, Photo+, Picture, Darkroom, Nikon Magazine, Shutterbug, Shots, Foundfolios, AltPick, Atedge, Profoto blog. Cookbooks The Urban Forager, Portable Feast, and Olive and Thyme.

Photographic Awards: Communication Arts, Spider BW Awards,International Photography Awards, Print Magazine, PDN , PDN/PIX, PDN/NIKON, How Magazine ,AIGA, APA, Archive Magazine, Northwest Addy Award, CNET best of the Web.

Ann also leads workshops at The LA Center for Photography and The Green and Bisque Clay Center. She has a background in Molecular Biology and runs a commercial photography studio in Old Town Pasadena. Her ceramic work is sold online and various stores nationwide.