The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

Deadline: 06/06/12

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants in the following categories:

– Article,

– Blog,

– Book,

– New and Alternative Media,

– Short-Form Writing.

Grants range from $3,000 to $50,000, depending on the needs and scope of the project.

Designed to encourage and reward writing about contemporary art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent, and precise, as well as to create a broader audience for arts writing, the Arts Writers Grant Program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts.

General eligibility

To be eligible for this grant, an arts writer must be

• an individual;

• an art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or practitioner in an outside field who is strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts;

• a U.S. citizen, permanent resident of the United States, or holder of an O-1 visa;

• at least twenty-five years old;

• a published author (specific publication requirements vary depending on grant category). Please note that work published in college newspapers and undergraduate student-run publicationswill not be considered toward this requirement.

An arts writer is NOT eligible for this grant if he or she is

• applying on behalf of an organization;

• applying for a project in which his or her primary involvement will be as an editor;

• a full-time student in a degree-granting program (with the exception of those students who are simultaneously maintaining professional careers as arts writers);

• an artist writing an interpretive essay on his or her own work;

• an artist whose proposed project does NOT directly address contemporary visual art (a piece of writing by an artist does not automatically qualify as “arts writing” in this context);

• applying to write a series of articles;

• applying to conduct a Q&A interview (or series of Q&A interviews);

• applying to assemble an archive or database;

• applying for a project on Andy Warhol;

• applying for a project that will be published by a commercial gallery;

• a grantee of the Art Writers Grant Program;

• a current employee, consultant, board member, or funder of Creative Capital or the Warhol Foundation, or an immediate family member of such a person.

Contact:

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
65 Bleecker Street 7th Floor
NY 100012 New York
USA

Website:

http://artswriters.org/home.html