The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its fall 2023 grants. Over $4 million in funding will be distributed to 50 arts organizations and institutions across 20 American states, with one international recipient based in Mexico City.
Thirty organizations and institutions across the United States have been selected to receive between $60,000 and $100,000 in program support over two years. The Foundation prioritized a variety of Black- and Native-led entities dedicated to increasing research, exhibition opportunities, and professional development. Afro Charities, a first-time Warhol grantee that preserves and develops cultural programming around the archives for Baltimore’s AFRO American (AFRO) Newspaper, was granted $60,000. The funds will be used to support the organization’s third round of new commissions, which will be awarded to Maryland-based artists, according to Director Savannah Wood.
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“The archival collection includes more than three million photographs amassed over the AFRO‘s 131 years of continuous operation,” Wood told Hyperallergic, adding that the nonprofit has commissioned four artists to make work related to the archives since 2019.
In Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, the Pu’uhonua Society was awarded $100,000 over two years to support its mission in nurturing Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) and Hawaiʻi-based artists. Executive Director Emma Broderick shared that since it was founded in 1972, Pu’uhonua Society has been led by three generations of Kānaka ʻŌiwi female lineal descendants with “a deep and sustained commitment to creating and supporting experimental as well as critically grounded contemporary art.”
“In Honolulu, where there is a high barrier to entry for everything from housing and education to arts and culture, Pu’uhonua Society creates low- or no-cost opportunities for artists, cultural practitioners, and community members that do not compromise their values or vision,” Broderick told Hyperallergic in an email. “In 2024 and 2025 we will continue to enact our organizational values through core programming and project-based initiatives, expanding our reach into new artistic communities while continuing our focus on Native Hawaiian and Hawaiʻi-based artists.”
Additional Black- and Native-led grant recipients include Pittsburgh’s Alma Lewis residency and exhibition program that houses the Black Archive, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation at the foothills of Oregon’s Blue Mountains, and the All My Relations Arts program within the Native American Community Development Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
All My Relations Arts Director Angela Two Stars shared her excitement about the grant in an email to Hyperallergic, stating that the funding would be used for supporting upcoming exhibitions for art that addresses “elements of strength and resilience, identity, and healing in Native communities.”
Environmentally focused entities that received program support grants include A Studio in the Woods, a New Orleans-based residency program focused on the relationship between humans and their environment; the Buffalo Arts Studio in Upstate New York for its upcoming programming about capitalism’s impact on waterways; and Epicenter, a creative and community-oriented initiative nestled in the small, rural town of Green River, Utah.
The Foundation has also awarded four curatorial research fellowship grants in this funding cycle, including one for curator Sofía Bastidas Vivar of the Mexico City-based public arts and community platform Ruta del Castor.
From coast to coast, 16 museums and university galleries were selected for the Foundation’s exhibition support grants for future displays, such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for an exhibition on Suzanne Jackson, Northwestern University’s Block Museum for Woven Being: Indigenous Art Histories of Chicagoland, and a survey of Sohrab Hura’s photography coming to Long Island City’s MoMA PS1.
“As socio-political tensions, cultural inequities, and environmental crises persist, it is imperative that arts organizations continue to cultivate the expressive capacities of artists,” said Joel Wachs, president of the Warhol Foundation, in a statement. “By providing artists with financial, material, and intellectual resources, as well as public platforms and engaged audiences, these organizations support the development of works that can offer new entry points to stalemated conversations.”
Source: Hyperallergic.com