The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City has announced forty-nine grants totaling $4.1 million in support of organizations working to help artists in communities across the country.

The fall 2021 awards, which include support for twenty first-time grantees, will enable organizations to provide a wide range of public programs, including exhibitions, residencies, and community programming. The foundation is allowing 50 percent of each grant to be used for administrative expenses. In addition, the foundation awarded grants totaling $244,000 to five institutions for curatorial research toward future exhibitions and institutional initiatives.

“The fall 2021 grantees are adapting and inventing new ways to meet the needs of artists as they persevere in the face of obstacles that surface every day in these unpredictable times,” said Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs. “Artists are at the heart of the foundation’s work, and it is more important than ever to shore up the organizations that sustain and empower them as they evolve their practices.”

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