Artists | Writers | Environments: A Grant Program
The A|W|E Grant application due date has passed for 2010.
In 2010 the CA+E piloted a grant program for visual artists and writers working together in the field. The $10,000 “A | W E” prize, funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is designed to: Encourage the creation of new art + environment projects that seek to address environmental challenges rather than simply comment on them; To foster deeper and more immediate public awareness of art + environment projects; and, To encourage unique field reports of lasting value to scholars and other artists. The intent is for the writer(s) to document, report upon, and/or analyze the work of the artist(s) and its environmental context, not to provide creative responses such as fiction or poetry.
We received 34 applications, and selected five finalists:
- Kianga Ford and writer David Delgado Shorter, Walking Home
- Amy Franceschini and Mike Davis, This is Not a Trojan Horse
- Mary Mattingly and Ian Daniel, Air Ship Air City: Flock House
- Aspen May and Karsten Lund, Charles Darwin’s Footsteps
- Stephanie Smith and Jay Babcock, The Kids Are Alright
Each of the five projects is completely different from the others, and each a vital response by an artist-led team to changes in the world that would be impossible for anyone else to mount. Both the hard and social sciences are evoked, but only artists could manifest the challenges in each environment with working metaphors realized physically in performance and installation.
The recipients of the first grant are Amy Franceschini and Mike Davis. Results of their project will be exhibited at the Museum in 2011, and their project materials become part of the CA+E Archive.
Future A | W | E grants
We hope to continue this project in the future, and will post announcements of opportunities and deadlines on the CA+E website. Interested artists and writers can contact Bill Fox at 775-329-3333 x 261 or .