The Warhol Foundation today announced the forty-nine recipients of its Spring 2023 Fellowships. The foundation will award more than $4 million to arts organizations and institutions scattered across twenty states and the District of Columbia, as well as one in Mexico and another in Stockholm. Nineteen of those receiving funding are first-time recipients.
“The Spring 2023 Fellows have demonstrated an admirable dedication to promoting experimental artistic practice, providing artists with platforms from which to engage in critical cultural conversations,” said the foundation’s president, Joel Wachs, in a statement. “The foundation’s support enables institutions and the artists they serve to revisit and challenge accepted histories, shine a light on overlooked and underrepresented voices, and promote innovation and creativity.”
A number of grantees are those whose programs elevate experimental artistic creation, creative thinking, and community engagement. Arts organizations also received awards for helping homeless people harness their creativity; those that connect artists with mentors and provide space for them to create; and those who support the LGBTQIA+ artistic community. In addition, eighteen institutions organizing individual and collective exhibitions on topical subjects have received funds. The foundation also announced $190,000 to support curatorial projects whose themes include nomadic residency, language and feminism, and Asian American art.
Early recipients include contemporary art-focused Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which hosts exhibitions, conducts professional development workshops, and runs production labs and an artist residency program; Katonah, New York’s River Valley Arts Collective, which connects local farmers, tribesmen and skilled artisans with artists to teach them sustainable and ethical ways to work with materials native to the region; and Gather:Make:Shelter of Portland, Oregon, which helps the city’s homeless population develop their artistic skills. Recipients include the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York, whose exhibition program reflects diverse LGBTQIA+ histories; the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, which, through its Sound Art + Experimental Music program, offers residencies for sound artists; and the New Orleans Film Society, which is changing its programming to support Southern BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ artists working in emerging forms of digital and new media.
A full list of Spring 2023 recipients is below.
Spring 2023 Grant Recipients | Two-year program support
Abron’s Arts Center – Henry Street Settlement, New York ($100,000)
Art21, New York ($100,000)
Bemis Art Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha ($100,000)
Boffo, New York ($60,000)
BOMB/New Art Publications, Inc., Brooklyn, NY ($100,000)
Express Newark/Rutgers University Foundation, Newark, NJ ($80,000)
Flux Projects, Atlanta ($60,000)
500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco ($100,000)
516 ARTS, Albuquerque ($100,000)
Gather: Make: Shelter, Portland, OR ($80,000)
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York ($100,000)
Los Angeles Department of Poverty ($100,000)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York ($100,000)
The Luminary, St. Louis ($100,000)
McColl Center, Charlotte, North Carolina ($100,000)
New Orleans Film Society ($100,000)
NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA ($60,000)
Contemporary Oregon, Portland ($100,000)
Public Media Institute, Chicago ($100,000)
Public Space One, Iowa City ($60,000)
Red Line, Denver ($100,000)
River Valley Arts Collective, Katonah, NY ($80,000)
Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN ($60,000)
Swiss Institute/NY, New York ($100,000)
Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC ($80,000)
Vox Populi, Philadelphia ($60,000)
Spring 2023 Grant Recipients | Exhibition Support
Anchorage Museum, Alaska ($75,000)
“DEW Line: Early Warning System”
Baltimore Museum of Art ($100,000)
“Preoccupied: indigenizing the museum”
Burchfield Penney Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY ($60,000)
“Wilhelmina Godfrey: I am what I am”
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ($100,000)
“Broadening the lens: photography, ecology and contemporary landscape”
Italian Modern Art Center, New York ($60,000)
“Corrado Cagli: defeating fascism”
Collaborative Cataloging of Japan, Philadelphia ($80,000)
“Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the United States, 1960s and 1970s”
Dia Art Foundation, New York ($75,000)
Cameron Rowland
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. ($100,000)
“OSGEMEOS”
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe ($100,000)
Exhibition program
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ($80,000)
“Scratch the Moon”
Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond ($60,000)
“Dear Mazi”
Krannert Museum of Art/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL ($75,000)
“Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams”
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ($100,000)
“Reclaiming Egypt: African-American Arts and Ancient Egypt: 1876–Present”
Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art ($100,000)
“Dreams of Emancipation”
Moderna Museet, Stockholm ($100,000)
Exhibition support
Seattle Art Museum ($100,000)
“Joyce J. Scott: Good Trouble”
Staten Island Museum, New York ($75,000)
“Caring: The ‘Dark Angels’ of Seaview Hospital”
USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA ($60,000)
“Another Beautiful Country: Moving Images by Chinese-American Artists”
Spring 2023 Grant Recipients | Conservation Research Fellowships
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York ($40,000)
Monika Fabijanska
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles ($50,000)
Julie Lazar
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art/UC Davis, Davis, CA ($50,000)
Amy Sadao and Susette Min
Terremoto, Mexico ($50,000)
Helen Lugo
