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Andy Warhol Foundation Announces Inaugural Arts Writing Grants

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Posted by Marina Reyes Franco on Mar 19, 2007 in Convocatorias | 0 comments

dinero The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is pleased to announce the first round of grants through its Arts Writing Initiative, a three-year, three-million-dollar program to support independent, progressive arts publications and individual arts writers. Designed to encourage and reward writing about art that is both intellectually rigorous and creatively generative, the program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to insure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts.

Selected through a nomination-based process for their ambition, commitment and strong editorial vision, each of the eight non-profit journals listed below will receive capacity-building grants of approximately $100,000 intended to stabilize business practices, increase audiences, and encourage the exploration of new partnerships and distribution channels. The grants are meant to enable journals to take creative risks and to showcase ambitious, intellectually committed writing.

Afterall, Los Angeles
Art Papers, Atlanta
Bomb Magazine, New York
The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn
Cabinet, New York
Esopus, New York
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Ithaca
X-tra, Los Angeles

Improving the viability of independent, progressive art publications goes hand in hand with sustaining the work of individual arts writers. Administered by the Creative Capital Foundation, the Arts Writing Initiative’s grants to individuals range from $8,500 – $50,000 and were selected by a six-person national panel of distinguished professionals in the field: Douglas Crimp, Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester; Anthony Elms, Editor of WhiteWalls and Assistant Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Okwui Enwezor, Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art Institute and Adjunct Curator at International Center of Photography; Sylvie Fortin, Editor-in-Chief of Art Papers; Tim Griffin, Editor-in-Chief of Artforum; and Judith Rodenbeck, Editor-in-Chief of Art Journal and Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College.

Representing a broad range of genres from scholarly studies to experiments with new and alternative media, the eighteen selected projects (listed below) are united by their dual commitment to the craft of writing and the advancement of critical discourse on contemporary visual art.

Julia Bryan-Wilson, Art Works, Artistic Labor in the Vietnam War Era (book), Providence
Susan Cahan,The Politics of Race in American Museums, 1968-1972 (book), St. Louis
Eda Cufer, Art as Mousetrap (book), Portland
Catherine de Zegher, Drawing Book (book), Kortrijk
T.J. Demos, The Document Between Fact and Fiction: Contemporary Art in Beirut (article), London
Grant Kester, The One and the Many: Agency and Identity in Collaborative Art (book), San Diego
Tan Lin, Warhol Writer (article), New York
Mary Warner, Documentary Photography: Episodes in the History of Image-Making and Ideas (article), La Fayette
Tom McDonough and Nancy Davenport, Inhabiting Authoritarianism: Students in the Iranian Pavilion in Paris, 1961-1979 (new and alternative media), Binghamton and New York
Judd Morrisey, The Last Performance (new and alternative media), Chicago
Eileen Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland (book), San Diego
Margaret Nelson, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractionists (book), Los Angeles
Molly Nesbit, The Tempest Essays (book), New York
John Peffer, The Struggle for Art at the End of Apartheid (book), Lakewood
Frances Richard, Physical Poetics: The Writings of Gordon Matta-Clark (article), Brooklyn
Reiki Tomii, Collectivism in 20th-Century Japan: A History of Strategic Alliances (article), New York
Kenneth Wark, The Situationists: A Users’ Guide (new and alternative media), New York
Gene Youngblood, George Kuchar’s Video Diaries (article), Santa Fe

For project descriptions and the 2007 grant calendar for individual writers, please visit www.artswriters.org.

Image:
Andy Warhol, Roll of Bills, 1962
Pencil, crayon and felt-tip pen on paper
40 x 301/8 inches
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