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The Andy Warhol Foundation
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

for writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art
http://artswriters.org/about.php?PHPSESSID=df98f8b

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is a
three-year pilot program designed to support writers whose work addresses
contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to
individual authors. The first program of its type, it was founded in
recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers
and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture.
In its first year, the Arts Writers Grant Program issued awards for books,
articles, and experiments in new and alternative media. In this round, the
program's second year, it introduces a new grant category for short-form
writing (texts of 1,000 words or less). In addition, the program seeks an
increased engagement with article-based projects and with art of the
current moment. Of particular interest are articles that identify and
explore pressing issues in the contemporary visual arts.

Also of interest are texts that illuminate the value contemporary art
holds for all viewers through its ability to complicate and enrich our
understanding of our world and ourselves and through its ability to offer
a space of freedom from and critical engagement with prevailing norms.

Through all its grants, regardless of topic or category type, the Arts
Writers Grant Program aims to honor and encourage writing about art * that
is rigorous, passionate, eloquent, and precise;
* in which a keen engagement with the present is infused with an
appreciation of the historical;
* that is neither afraid to take a stand nor content to deliver
authoritative pronouncements, but serves rather to pose questions and
generate new possibilities for thinking about, seeing, and making art;
* that is sensitive to both the importance and difficulty of situating
aesthetic objects within their broader social and political contexts;
* that does not dilute or sidestep complex ideas but renders accessible
their meaning and value;
* that creatively challenges the limits of existing conventions, without
valorizing novelty as an end in itself.


data limita: 12/09/07

Kontakt:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
65 Bleecker Street 7th Floor
NY 100012 New York
USA
tel: 212 598 9900
questions la artswriters.org
http://www.warholfoundation.org/


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