The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2015 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 2015 cycle, the Arts Writers Grant Program has awarded a total of 695,000 USD to 20 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
Carla Acevedo-Yates, “The Silence of Eros: Decoding Homotextuality in the Work of Zilia Sánchez”
Gian-Maria Annovi, “Dirty Encounters: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Legacy and the Work of David Wojnarowicz”
Melissa Ragain, “Environmental Aesthetics in the Postwar University”
Blogs
Claire Daigle, Figuring Fiction
Gelare Khoshgozaran and Eunsong Kim, contemptorary
Victoria Valentine, Culture Type
Books
Rizvana Bradley, Resurfaced Flesh: Black Aesthetics Unbound
Iftikhar Dadi, Pakistani Contemporary Art: An Object History
Johanna Gosse, On Site: Ray Johnson’s New York
William E. Jones, The Ruins of Villa Iolas
Damon Krukowski, The New Analog
Courtney Martin, A Critical Language: Lawrence Alloway’s Words to the Art World
Alexander Provan, Arbitrary Units: Culture in the Age of Quantification
Short-form writing
Karen Archey
Orit Gat
James McAnally
Laura McLean-Ferris
Erik Morse
Martha Schwendener
Lynne Tillman
Art Writing Workshop
The Creative Capital | Andy 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 2015 Art Writing Workshop recipients, click here.
