Arts Writers Grant Program announces 2013 grants
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Programis pleased to announce the recipients of its 2013 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 2013 cycle, the Arts Writers Grant Program has awarded a total of 619,000 USD to twenty writers. Ranging from 10,000 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
Melissa Messina, “Mildred Thompson: Making the Invisible Visible” (Savannah, Georgia)
Federico Windhausen, “Narcisa Hirsch, the Goethe Group, and Argentine Experimental Cinema During the Dirty War” (Oakland, California)
Blogs
Sharon Butler,Two Coats of Paint(New York)
Ed Fuentes, Paint This Desert (Las Vegas)
Andrew Horwitz, Art Criticism for the Post-Material World (Brooklyn)
Books
Monica Amor,Gego: Weaving the Space In-Between (Philadelphia)
Jennifer Bajorek,The Atlantides of Memory: Photography and Decolonial Imagination (Brooklyn)
George Baker,Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography (Los Angeles)
Claudia Calirman,A Study from the Margins: Female Practices in Brazil and Chile (New York)
Kellie Jones, Art is an Excuse: Conceptual Strategies 1968-1983 (Brooklyn)
Saloni Mathur, A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art (Los Angeles)
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Troubled Waters: Ecology and History in 21st-Century Caribbean Art (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Krista Thompson, Photography, Screen and Spectacle in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture (Evanston, Illinois)
Short-form writing
Andrew Berardini (Los Angeles)
Robert Berlind (New York)
Travis Diehl (Los Angeles)
Travis Jeppesen (Berlin)
Jennifer Kabat (Margaretville, New York)
Kate Sutton (Nashville, Tennessee)
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie (Beirut, Lebanon)
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 2013 Art Writing Workshop recipients, see our website.
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