The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has presented $413,500 in Fall 2018 Curatorial Research Fellowships, making this the highest dollar amount since the program’s inception began in 2008. Individual fellows will receive grants of up to $50,000 to support new scholarships that focus on contemporary artistic practice. Grant recipients were chosen through the foundation’s biannual open submission process.
“The curators in this group will conduct research on artists and movements that have been overlooked or ignored while engaging with, in many cases, difficult subject matter that is timely and culturally relevant,” said Joel Wachs, Andy Warhol Foundation president. “Their projects will bring new perspectives and methodologies to bear on the study of exhibition-making and currents in contemporary art.”
Naima Keith and Diana Nawi. PHOTO BY HRDWRKER.
Among the recipients chosen are Naima Keith and Diana Nawi who are currently developing Prospect.5. “We are thrilled to receive the fellowship to support our research at this stage. So much of our methodology is dependent on deep dialogue, and this award enables us to be on the ground and in conversation with different communities and cultural producers in New Orleans, the broader region, and beyond,” they said in a joint statement.
The Curatorial Research Fellowship program is in its 11th year; it has awarded $4.2 million to 125 curators to date. Curators at any career stage are encouraged to apply; applicants must have the formal support of an institution. The next deadline is March 1, 2019.
