The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2017 grants. The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts.
In its 2017 cycle, the Arts Writers Grant Program has awarded a total of 760,000 USD to 23 writers. Ranging from 15,000 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
Hsuan Hsu, “Olfactory Art and Differential Deodorization”
Liz Linden, “No Substitute: Reading the Collaborative Work of Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine”
Solveig Nelson, “Gretchen Bender’s ‘Total Recall,’ 1987, and the Feminist Return to Television Art”
Janet Sarbanes, “Houses of Dust: A Meditation in Many Parts”
Stephanie Schwartz, “Martha Rosler: Seeing the Screen”
Jared Sexton, “A Witticism About Darkness: Racial Subtexts in Black Monochrome Painting”
Blogs
Suzy Halajian, Shoghig Halajian, and Anthony Carfello, uncounted
Emmanuel Iduma, A Sum of Encounters
João Enxuto and Erica Love, Contemporary.Institute
Kristi McGuire, False Flags
Books
Hannah Black, Vernacular Loneliness
Kency Cornejo, Contemporary Art of El Salvador, 1977-2017
M. Neelika Jayawardane, Comrades with Cameras: The Afrapix Photographers’ Collective and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Janet Kraynak, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life
Shaka McGlotten, Black Data
Amber Musser, Brown Jouissance: Feminine Imaginings
Nada Shabout, The Dialectics of the Decorative in Iraqi Art
Greg Youmans, Something New Under the Sun: Bay Area Queer Filmmaking Across the 1970s
Short-form writing
Jordan Amirkhani
Rachel Churner
Raquel Gutierrez
Omar Kholeif
Siddhartha Mitter
Art Writing Workshop
The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is pleased to continue its partnership with AICA (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 2017 Art Writing Workshop recipients, see our website.
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