Arts Writers Grant Program announces 2014 grants
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The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Programis pleased to announce the recipients of its 2014 grants. Designed to support writing about contemporary art, as well as to create a broader audience for arts writing, 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 2014 cycle, the Arts Writers Grant Program has awarded a total of 600,000 USD to 20 writers. Ranging from 6,000 USD to 50,000 USD in four categories—articles, blogs, books and short-form writing—these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to self-published blogs.
Articles
Elissa Auther, “Senga Nengudi: The Performing Body” (Denver, CO)
Andrea K. Scott, “No Picnic: The Rematerialization of Digital Art” (New York, NY)
Aliza Shvarts, “Unseen Acts: The Material Force of Nothing” (Brooklyn, NY)
Blogs
Kate Palmer Albers, Project K: Photography and Art in the Age of Social Media (Los Angeles, CA)
Christopher Howard, In Terms Of (Brooklyn, NY)
Silvia Kolbowski,Another platform for art (New York, NY)
Lee Rosenbaum,CultureGrrl (Fort Lee, NJ)
Daniel Temkin, esoteric.codes(Astoria, NY)
Books
Erin Aldana, Xerox Art in Brazil and Argentina, 1970–1980 (San Diego, CA)
Svetlana Boym,Off Modern (Cambridge, MA)
Kaira M. Cabañas,Expressive Restraint: Modern Art and Madness in Brazil and Beyond (Rio de Janiero, Brazil)
Suzanne Hudson, Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process (Santa Monica, CA)
Sharon Irish,Stephen Willats in the Yew Kay (Urbana, IL)
Janet Koplos, The Loyal Opposition: The Life and Times of Chicago’s Controversial New Art Examiner (St. Paul, MN)
Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith,Media Metahistory: The Radical Art and Ideas of Peter Watkins (Brooklyn, NY)
Andrew Wasserman,Bang! We’re All Dead! The Places of Nuclear Fear in 1980s America (Ruston, LA)
Short-form writing
Johanna Fateman (New York, NY)
Corrine Fitzpatrick (Brooklyn, NY)
Maurice Berger (New York, NY)
James Trainor (New York, NY)
Art Writing Workshop
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is pleased to continue its partnership with the International Art Critics Association/USA Section, to give practicing writers the opportunity to strengthen their work through one-on-one consultations with leading art critics. For a list of 2014 Art Writing Workshop recipients, see our website.
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