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Arts Writers Grant Program 2014 application open

Application opens: Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Application closes: Wednesday, May 21, 2014

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants in the following categories: Article, Blog, Book, New and Alternative Media, and Short-Form Writing. Grants range from $5,000 to $50,000, depending on the needs and scope of the project.

Designed to encourage and reward writing about contemporary art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent, and precise, as well as to create a broader audience for arts writing, the Arts Writers Grant Program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts. For guidelines and eligibility criteria, click here. To apply click here.

Through all its grants, the Arts Writers Grant Program aims to honor and encourage writing about art

– that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent, and precise;
– in which a keen engagement with the present is infused with an appreciation of the historical;
– that is neither afraid to take a stand nor content to deliver authoritative pronouncements, but serves rather to pose questions and generate new possibilities for thinking about, seeing, and making art;
– that is sensitive to both the importance and difficulty of situating aesthetic objects within their broader social and political contexts;
– that does not dilute or sidestep complex ideas but renders accessible their meaning and value;
– that creatively challenges the limits of existing conventions, without valorizing novelty as an end in itself.

Due to legal constraints we can only fund U.S. citizens, permanent residents of the United States, and holders of O-1 visas. For guidelines and additional eligibility requirements, please visit artswriters.org/eligibility.

Art Writing Workshop
In partnership with the International Association of Art Critics/USA Section, the Arts Writers Grant Program offers applicants consultations with leading art critics. For more information, please visit artswriters.org/writing_workshop.

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