United States Artists
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| Type | Philanthropic arts organization |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Area served | United States |
| Focus | American artists |
| Method | Awards unrestricted grants of $50,000 to 50 artists per annum [1] |
| Endowment | Initial seed funding of (US) $22.6M [2] provided by Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Prudential Foundation, and Rasmuson Foundation [3] |
| Website | [10] |
United States Artists (USA) is an independent nonprofit and nongovernmental philanthropic organization based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 2005 with initial funding from The Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Prudential Foundation, and The Rasmuson Foundation. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors and receives funding from several major American foundations, corporate partners, and private citizens.
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[edit] Mission
The organization's stated mission is to "nurture, strengthen, and support the work of living American artists." In addition, the organization asserts that "USA Fellowships honor and award an artist’s unique vision as a whole rather than funding a particular project. Artists at different career levels, from emerging to established, are eligible." [4]
[edit] History
[edit] The Grants
Grants are awarded yearly to artists working in any one of seven categories:
- Architecture and Design
- Crafts and Traditional Arts
- Dance
- Literature (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry)
- Media (film, media, and radio)
- Music
- Theater Arts
- Visual Arts
[edit] Grant Recipients
2006 USA Fellows were:
Architecture and Design: Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa
Crafts and Traditional Arts: furniture designer Tanya Aguiniga, textile and clothing designer Liz Collins, master Chilkat blanket weaver Anna Brown Ehlers [5] jeweler Arline Fisch, ceramist Sarah Jaeger [6] and Tlingit weaver Teri Rofkar.
Dance: Ronald K. Brown, Eiko and Koma, Alonzo King, and Ralph Lemon.
Literature: novelist Sandra Benitez, poet and novelist Beth Ann Fennelly, short story writer, journalist, and editor Amy Hempel, short story and fiction writer and essayist Victor La Valle, Heather McHugh, Wesley McNair, novelist and poet Susan Power, comics artist and novelist Joe Sacco, and novelist Matthew Stadler.
Media: Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, documentary filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, radio documentary producer David Isay, low-budget, high-camp filmmakers George Kuchar and Mike Kuchar, radio producer and dramatist Dmae Roberts[7], and Philip Rodriguez. [8]
Music: John Luther Adams, Natividad Cano, Bill Frisell, Jim Woodring, Ali Akbar Khan, Lourdes Perez.
Theater Arts: Anne Bogart, Ping Chong, Anthony Garcia, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Meredith Monk, Dominique Serrand, Basil Twist.
Visual arts: Layalh Ali, Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Sam Durant, Mark Handforth, Michael Joo, Michael Lesy, Catherine Opie, William Pope:L, Michael Queenland, Anna Sew Hoy, Chris Ware.
2007 grant winners: Architecture and Design: Benjamin Aranda and Christopher Lasch; Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues; and Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani.
Crafts and Traditional Arts: Tommy Joseph, Gwendolyn Magee, Maggie Orth, Virgil Ortiz, and Susie Silook.
Dance: Joanna Halgood, Anna Halprin, Rennie Harris, Bill T. Jones, Benjamin Millepied, and Shen Wei.
Literature: Marilyn Chin, Henri Cole, Charles D’Ambrosio, William Gay, John Haines, Mat Johnson, Cherie Moraga, Luis Valdez, and Helena Maria Viramontes.
Media: Julie Dash, Chris Eyre, Judith Helfand, Alex Rivera, and Susan Stone.
Music: Don Byron, Michael Doucet, Tina Landau, Elizabeth LeCompte, Michael Sommers, Robert Woodruff.
Visual Arts: Edgar Arceneaux, Uta Barth, Paul Chan, Charles Gaines, Ann Hamilton, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Marcos Ramirez, Allan Sekula, Gary Simmons, and Zoe Strauss. [9]
[edit] References
- ^ Stephanie Strom, "New Charity to Start Plan for $50,000 Artists' Grants," The New York Times, Sep. 5. 2006 [1]
- ^ Stephanie Strom, "An Artist's Grant that Even Pays For Glasses," The New York Times, Oct. 7, 2007 [2]
- ^ United States Artists Official Website [3]
- ^ United States Artists Official Website. Common Questions [4]
- ^ "2006 Cultural Capital Fellows," First Peoples Fund [5]
- ^ Featured Artist, "Craft in America: A Journey to the Artists, Origins, and Techniques of American Craft," May 2007. Public Broadcasting Service [6]
- ^ Asian American Journalists Association, "Dmae Roberts Receives Fellowship from United States Artists," Dec. 8, 2006 [7]
- ^ United States Artists Official Website [8]
- ^ [9]
