Twenty-seven writers have been selected in the most recent cycle of the Arts Writers Grant, receiving awards ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories: articles, books, and short-form writing, supporting projects that address both general and specialised art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies.
‘The grantees engage urgent issues such as disability access and aesthetics, Indigenous communities and their art practices, transnational modernisms, queer and feminist art, and more,’ said Pradeep Dalal, Director, The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He added, ‘Reading the scholarship and criticism produced by arts writers every year is a reminder as to how such writing can challenge the constrictions that chronology and thematized ordering systems impose on our understanding of art and history. The field of contemporary arts writing is capacious, and its constantly expanding disciplinary borders are perhaps more porous now than ever.’
The full list of grantees:
Articles
Moustafa Bayoumi ‘Aesthetics, Circulation, and the Politics of the Restitution of Art from Guantánamo Bay’
Chelsea Haines ‘Transatlantic Solidarities: Gershon Knispel in Brazil’
Jane Ursula Harris ‘Unruly Bodies: Confronting Ableism with Aberrance’
David W. Norman ‘Forgetting Michael Heizer’s Effigy Tumuli: The Disappearance of a Settler Earthwork’
Natalia Zuluaga ‘Sway and Split: Performance and Pedagogy in 1980s Cuba’
Books
Kemi Adeyemi, Writing About Black Art
Emilie Boone, Haiti Chooses You: A Contemporary Pedagogy on Photography
Amanda Cachia, Hospitable Aesthetics: Rescripting Medical Images of Disability
Kaleem Hawa, Land and Catastrophe
Lila Lee-Morrison, Machinic Landscapes: Technology, Art and Environment in an Age of Planetarity
Tara McDowell, The Mother Artist
Uri McMillan, The Seventies in Color
Jasmina Tumbas, Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art of Resistance Beyond Nationhood
W. Jamaal Wright, Valorizing the Void: Place and Public Art in Houston’s Third Ward
Gregory Zinman, Public Scenes: Media Art Outside the Gallery and Museum
Short-Form Writing
Silvia Benedetti
Edna Bonhomme
Kim Córdova
Yinka Elujoba
Will Fenstermaker Jessica Fuentes
Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi
Sahar Khraibani
Annette An-Jen Liu
Mark Pieterson
Dina A. Ramadan
Lillien Waller
