AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Grants for Arts Writers
Online application form opens: Monday, April 23, 2012
Application deadline: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
www.artswriters.org

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports
writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through project-based
grants, ranging from 3,000 to 50,000 USD, 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. The Arts Writers
Grant Program aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary
visual art, from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship.

Writers who meet the program's eligibility requirements are invited to apply
in the following categories:
Articles
Blogs
Books
New and Alternative Media
Short-Form Writing
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 www.artswriters.org.
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 www.aicausa.org.

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