[BKARTS] Artists Writers Grant Program

[Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord <skgaylord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Friends	

We have had conversations on the list before about the place of book  
art within the larger context of the art world and communicating that  
to the world. I came across this information about the Arts Writers  
Grant Program, a pilot program of Creative Capital/Andy Warhol  
Foundation and thought it might be of interest.

The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is a  
three-year pilot program designed to support writers whose work  
addresses contemporary visual art, through project-based grants  
issued directly to individual authors. The first program of its type,  
it was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious  
situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a  
vital artistic culture. Through awards for books, articles, and work  
in new and alternative media, The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol  
Foundation Arts Writers Grant aims to honor and encourage:
• Writing about art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent, and precise

• Writing about art in which a keen engagement with the present is  
infused with an appreciation of the historical

• Writing about art that is neither afraid to take a stand, nor  
content to deliver authoritative pronouncements, but seeks rather to  
pose questions and generate new possibilities for thinking, seeing,  
and making

• Writing about art that is sensitive to both the importance and  
difficulty of situating aesthetic objects within their broader social  
and political contexts

• Writing about art that does not dilute or sidestep complex ideas  
but renders accessible their meaning and value

• Writing about art that challenges creatively the limits of existing  
conventions, without valorizing novelty as an end in itself

Here's the link:

http://www.artswriters.org/

in good spirit
Susan

Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
Newburyport, MA

skgaylord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.makingbooks.com



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