After serving for 30 years as an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council, where he was a founder of LAMOCA and gained a nationwide reputation as a champion of the arts, Joel Wachs was appointed President of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Under Wachs’ leadership, the Foundation manages an innovative grants program which has given over $300M to nearly a 1,000 arts organizations and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 arts institutions worldwide.
After serving for 30 years as an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council, where he was a founder of LAMOCA and gained a nationwide reputation as a champion of the arts, Joel Wachs was appointed President of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Under Wachs’ leadership, the Foundation manages an innovative grants program which has given over $300M to nearly a 1,000 arts organizations and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 arts institutions worldwide.
After serving for 30 years as an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council, where he was a founder of LAMOCA and gained a nationwide reputation as a champion of the arts, Joel Wachs was appointed President of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Under Wachs’ leadership, the Foundation manages an innovative grants program which has given over $300M to nearly a 1,000 arts organizations and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 arts institutions worldwide.
