For
Immediate Release
February
25, 2008
Creative
Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program Announces 2007 Grants
Contact Margaret Sundell, Program Director, at
questions@artswriters.org.
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers
Grant is pleased to announce its
second round of grants. Designed to encourage and reward writing about
contemporary art that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible,
the program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to ensure that critical
writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts.
In its 2007 cycle, the Arts Writers Grant Program
has awarded a total of $300,000 to sixteen individual
authors. The
2007 grants range from $7,000 to $35,000 in three categories—short-form writing, articles, and books—and support projects
addressing both general and specialized art audiences. Grants
were selected by a six-person national panel of distinguished professionals in
the field: Carlos Basualdo, Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of
Art; Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome; Miwon Kwon, Associate
Professor of Art History, UCLA; Thomas Lawson, Dean of the School of Art at
California Institute of the Arts and editor of Afterall; Ann Reynolds, Associate Professor of Art History and
Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin; Katy Siegel,
Associate Professor of Art History and Art Criticism, Hunter College.
Representing a broad range of genres from
scholarly studies to investigative journalism, the sixteen 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.
Debra
Balken, Harold
Rosenberg (Book), Somerville, MA
Benjamin
Carlson, One-Year
Writing Concentration (Short-Form Writing),
Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth
Finch, Instituting
Relatedness: Art, Science, and Technology at MIT after 1968 (Article), Waterville, ME
Leanne
Goebel, Art
Writing: The Bridge Between Contemporary Art Centers and the Traditional Rural
Southwest (Short-Form Writing), Pagosa Springs, CO
Bruce
Hainley, Sturtevant's
Eclipse (Book), Los
Angeles, CA
Robby
Herbst, Generative
Art – Creative Possibilities (Article), Los Angeles,
CA
Gary
Indiana, The
Hidden Life of the Image (Book), New York, NY
Sonia
Katyal, Anti-Branding
(Book), New York, NY
Liz
Kotz, In a Large Open
Space (Article),
Pasadena, CA
Glenn
Ligon, Black Covers (working
title) (Book), New York, NY
Richard
Meyer, What was
Contemporary Art? (Book), Los Angeles, CA
Sharon
Mizota, Terms
of Engagement: Re-envisioning the "Political" in Art (Short-Form
Writing), Los Angeles, CA
Barbara
Pollack, Everything
But Freedom: Censorship's Impact on Contemporary Art in China (Article), New York, NY
Felicity
Scott, “Burn-Off”:
Les Levine’s Environmental Systems (Article), New York, NY
George
Slade, Looking
Homeward: Notes on Photographic Minnesota (Book), St Paul,
MN
Jim
Supanick, Windsock
Navigation: eteam's International Airport Montello (Article), Brooklyn, NY
For project descriptions and to receive
information on our 2008 grant cycle, please visit www.artswriters.org.