The Warhol Foundation yesterday announced the forty-nine recipients of its spring 2023 grants. The foundation will award more than $4 million to arts organizations and institutions spread across twenty states and the District of Columbia, as well as one in Mexico City and another in Stockholm. Nineteen of those receiving funding are first-time beneficiaries.
“The Spring 2023 grantees have demonstrated an admirable dedication to nurturing experimental artistic practice by providing artists with platforms to participate in critical cultural conversations,” foundation president Joel Wachs said in a statement. “The foundation’s support empowers institutions and the artists they serve to revisit and question accepted histories, highlight overlooked and underrepresented voices, and foster innovation and creativity.”
Several grantees are those whose programs elevate experimental art, creative thinking and community engagement. Also receiving awards were artistic organizations that helped the homeless harness their creativity; those that connect artists with mentors and offer them space to create; and those who support the LGBTQIA+ artistic community. Additionally, eighteen institutions that mount solo and group exhibitions addressing timely topics received funding. The foundation also announced $190,000 in support of curatorial projects whose themes include nomadic residence, language and feminism, and Asian American art.
First-time grantees include Chattanooga, Tennessee's contemporary art-focused Stove Works, which hosts exhibitions, conducts professional development workshops, and maintains production labs and an artist residency program; Katonah, New York's River Valley Arts Collective, which connects area farmers, tribal members, and skilled artisans with artists to teach them sustainable and ethical ways to work with materials native to the region; and Portland, Oregon's Gather:Make:Shelter, which helps the city's homeless population develop their artistic skills. Repeat grantees include New York's Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, whose exhibition program reflects diverse LGBTQIA+ stories; Omaha's Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, which through its Sound Art + Experimental Music program offers residencies for sound artists; and the New Orleans Film Society, which is shifting its programming to support Southern BIPOC, women and LGBTQ+ artists working in emerging forms of digital and new media.
Source: Artnet News