Over $60,000 in Grants Awarded to Alabama Artists per Year by the Verdant Fund
Now in its second year, Verdant Fund is pleased to announce our 2022 awardees. Each year, $60,000 in grants are distributed to Alabama artists creating and presenting outward-facing, community-based projects. Each project is tracked and documented over the course of the year. Project updates are posted on the VerdantFund.org website and social media.
The Verdant Fund is a collaborative effort of Alabama Contemporary Art Center (Mobile), Coleman Center for the Arts (York), and Space One Eleven (Birmingham), established as a partner in the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program in 2019. The Regional Regranting Program was established in 2007 to recognize and support the movement of independently organized, public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional art scenes but that lies beyond the reach of traditional funding sources. The program is administered by non-profit visual art centers across the United States that work in partnership with the Foundation to fund artists’ experimental projects and collaborative undertakings.
2022 Grantees
Finches
Melissa Yes, Tyler Jones, Fen Kennedy, and Todd Slaughter
Revolution With Sycamore
Rhea Speights and Sycamore Sylvia Toffel
Montgomery Drag
John Haley
Cultivating the Community Project
Orran Scruggs
Searcy Hospital Project
Charity Rachelle
Sun Ra Multidisciplinary Commemorative Event
John ‘Jahni’ Moore and Willoughby Lucas Hastings
Corner House Gallery 101
Brian Tan
Vibrantake Pilot Issue
VibRaNtake
Project Fkit
Conz8000
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For more information: (251) 208-5660 | info@verdantfund.org
ABOUT THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The Foundation manages an innovative and flexible grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the Foundation has given over $260 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations in 49 states and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.