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Artists | Writers | Environments (A | W | E) Grant Program

CAE1119

Summary Note

This one-year pilot program developed by The Center for Art + Environment at Nevada Museum of Art, was meant to encourage artists and writers to work as teams on art + environment projects. Materials include applications, correspondence, images, and in-depth applications from the five finalists.

Biographical Note

The Center for Art + Environment was established by Nevada Museum of Art in 2009 with three goals:
1. To encourage the creation of artworks expressing the interactions between people and their natural, built, and virtual environments;
2. To convene artists, scholars, and communities to document, research, and analyze such artworks;
3. To increase public knowledge of these creative and scholarly endeavors.

The CA+E developed a trial grant program to test the efficacy of addressing all three goals by awarding funds through competitive application for artist-writer collaborations. The program was developed by CA+E Director William Fox and administered by Rosalind Bedell, the Associate Director of Advancement and Volunteer Programs. The decision was made to award the $10,000 available to a single collaboration in order to attract the highest possible caliber of applications. The program was discontinued after the pilot in order to shift emphasis on funding CA+E Research Fellows, a program initiated the following year that was able to support similar projects, as well host a broader range of scholarly and curatorial activities.

Scope and Content

The Artists | Writers | Environments (A | W | E) grant program, funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, was a one-year pilot experiment, developed by Nevada Museum of Art, meant to encourage artists and writers to work as teams on art + environment projects. The award of $10,000 was given Amy Franceschini, artist, and Mike Taussig, writer, for "This is Not a Trojan Horse" the contents of which form a separate archive.

Materials include: applications, correspondence, images, and in-depth applications from the five finalists: Kianga Ford and David Delgado Shorter-Walking Home; Amy Franceschini, Artist and Renny Pritikin
This Is Not A Trojan Horse; Mary Mattingly and Ian Daniel
Air Ship Air City; Aspen May and Karsten Lund
untitled (retracing Darwin's journey through Chile's earthquake zone); Stephanie Smith and Jay Babcock
The Kids Are Alright: Community Resilience Among Youth.

Arrangement

This archive is arranged by administrative materials followed by finalists' materials. Finalist folders are arranged alphabetically by project name.

Inclusive Dates

2009 - 2010

Quantity / Extent

.125 cubic feet

Language

English

Container Listing:

  • CAE Box 28

    • Folder 1 Administrative Materials, 2010
    • Folder 2 Applicant Materials and Finalist Selection, 2010
    • Folder 3 Finalists Air Ship Air City, Mary Mattingly and Ian Daniel, 2010
    • Folder 4 Finalists The Kids Are Alright, Stephanie Smith and Jay Babcock, 2010
    • Folder 5 Finalists This is not a Trojan Horse, Amy Franceschini and Mike Davis, 2010
    • Folder 6 Finalists Untitled, Karsten Lund and Aspen Mays, 2010
    • Folder 7 Finalists Walking Home, Kianga Ford and David Delgado Shorter, 2010