For Immediate Release
February 23, 2007
Andy Warhol
Foundation Announces Inaugural Arts Writing Grants
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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 a capacity-building grant 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,
Art Papers,
Bomb Magazine,
The Brooklyn Rail,
Cabinet,
Nka: Journal of
Contemporary African Art,
X-tra,
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),
Susan Cahan, The
Politics of Race in American Museums, 1968-1972 (book),
Eda Cufer, Art as
Mousetrap (book),
Catherine de Zegher, Drawing
Book (book),
T.J. Demos, The
Document Between Fact and Fiction: Contemporary Art in
Beirut (article),
Grant Kester, The One
and the Many: Agency and Identity in Collaborative Art (book),
Tan Lin, Warhol Writer
(article),
Mary Warner Marien, 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
Judd Morrisey, The Last Performance (new and alternative media), Chicago
Eileen Myles, The
Importance of Being Iceland (book),
Margaret Nelson, Women,
the
Molly Nesbit, The
Tempest Essays (book),
John Peffer, The
Struggle for Art at the End of Apartheid (book),
Frances Richard, Physical
Poetics: The Writings of Gordon Matta-Clark
(article),
Reiki Tomii, Collectivism
in 20th-Century
Kenneth Wark, The
Situationists: A Users’ Guide (new and alternative
media),
Gene Youngblood, George
Kuchar’s Video Diaries (article),
For project descriptions and the 2007 grant calendar for individual writers, please visit www.artswriters.org/announce.html.