Dorian Wood stands at a microphone in front of a projected purple-and-white image of a person with a long lock of hair covering their eyes. She wears a green and white patterned long sleeved dress and is illuminated by soft purple light.

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Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Dorian Wood. Performance still from Musa Cerdota at Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2024. Photo by Juan Peiró.

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Dorian Wood. Performance still from Musa Cerdota at Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2024. Photo by Juan Peiró.

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A vibrant watercolor and pencil triptych depicts a room filled with balloon-shaped patterns which contain fantastical creatures and microorganisms set against a dark background. In the center panel, a bird-like figure wearing a crown of vines stands atop a transparent dome filled with additional colorful microorganisms. The organisms throughout the work are highlighted in gold and appear in movement.

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Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Fi Jae Li. Egg of Ego, 2018, ink, watercolor, color pencil, Korean gold pigment, acrylic on Korean paper, 75.4” x 153.3". Photo by Hexagon.

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Fi Jae Li. Egg of Ego, 2018, ink, watercolor, color pencil, Korean gold pigment, acrylic on Korean paper, 75.4” x 153.3". Photo by Hexagon.

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Shayla-Vie Jenkins kneels on a beach in a neon green outfit, pressing her fists into the ground as she extends her legs sideways. The sky is overcast and, in the background, additional performers dressed in similar neon green outfits crawl across the sand. Beachgoers are seen in the distance walking along the shoreline.

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Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Shayla-Vie Jenkins. Performance still from REPOSE at Beach Sessions, Rockaway Beach, New York, 2021. Choreographed by Moriah Evans. Performed by Shayla-Vie Jenkins. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Shayla-Vie Jenkins. Performance still from REPOSE at Beach Sessions, Rockaway Beach, New York, 2021. Choreographed by Moriah Evans. Performed by Shayla-Vie Jenkins. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Lena Engelstein and Lisa Fagan, both wearing sparkly dresses, move through a black-walled and floored performance space. Engelstein, wearing blue, looks down and has her arms angled outward. Fagan, positioned behind Engelstein wearing red, looks over her shoulder and gestures with both hands to her right. They both wear haphazard streaks of makeup in different colors.

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Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Lisa Fagen and Lena Engelstein. Performance still from Deepe Darknesse at The Collapsable Hole, New York, 2023. Performed by Lena Engelstein, Lisa Fagan, and Hannah Mitchell. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Jennifer Harge performs a dynamic movement in an outdoor space with tall, ivy-covered walls and arched windows. She wears a white long-sleeved garment and lace-up boots, mid-step with one arm extended upward and her body leaning forward. In the background, an audience watches attentively in the sunlit venue with gravel flooring.

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Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Jennifer Harge. Performance still from there are many ways to make a clearing presented by The Black Repertory at Spring Church, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MI, 2023. Music: Kurt Carr and the Kurt Carr Singers, The Clark Sisters, Tamela Mann, and Twinkie Clark. Photography by Virginia Harold © Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

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David Watson, wearing a gray work jumpsuit and a baseball cap, plays the bagpipes indoors. He stands in front of a large industrial-style window with a weathered wall visible in the background, holding the bagpipes under his arm.

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Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Performance still from RESTOS at Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, Colombia, 2021. Choreography by Moriah Evans. Photo by Andres Trujillo.

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Performance still from RESTOS at Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, Colombia, 2021. Choreography by Moriah Evans. Photo by Andres Trujillo.

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Ebony Webster, Jude Evans, and Fletcher Laws are in a shallow stream surrounded by lush greenery. One performer lies in the water with their eyes closed, while the other two stand to their side. The downstream performer holds a bunch of flowers and foliage over the person lying in the stream, and the upstream performer gently places a hand on their forehead. All three wear white outfits.

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Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Ebony Noelle Golden. Performance still from 79 Moons: a visual poem at Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA, 2022. Performed by Ebony Webster, Jude Evans, Fletcher Laws, Karma Mayet Johnson, and Brittany Grier. Photo by Bleu Santiago.

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FCA encourages, sponsors, and promotes innovative work in the arts

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2025 GranteesSee All 2025 Grantees

23 artists working in 5 disciplines

Tyler Thomas

Grants to Artists
Performance Art/Theater

Khadijah Queen

Cy Twombly Award for Poetry
Poetry

Dorian Wood

Grants to Artists
Music/Sound

Jennifer Harge

Grants to Artists
Dance

Jennifer Lafferty

Viola Farber Award
Dance

Peggy Piacenza

Merce Cunningham Award
Dance

Alex Tatarsky

Grants to Artists
Performance Art/Theater

Jutta Koether

Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting
Visual Arts

23 Contemporary Artists and Collectives Receive Unrestricted Grants of $45,000 each, including two Viola Farber Awards from Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

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23 Contemporary Artists and Collectives Receive Unrestricted Grants of $45,000 each, including two Viola Farber Awards from Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Performance still from Deepe Darknesse at The Collapsable Hole, New York, 2023. Performed by Lena Engelstein, Lisa Fagan, and Hannah Mitchell. Photo by Maria Baranova.

About FCA

FCA: Artists for Artists

In 1962 Jasper Johns, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and other painters and sculptors came together to help Merce Cunningham and his dance company finance a proposed season on Broadway by arranging for a sale of their artworks. Their fund-raising efforts were so successful that there was money to spare, and when they asked Cunningham what he thought they should do with it, he replied, “We’re all in the same boat—why don’t you give it to other performing artists?” Thus in 1963 Jasper Johns and John Cage established the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts based on the belief that visual artists—painters and sculptors—were sufficiently concerned about the state of the performance arts—dance, theater, and music—enough so to donate artwork to benefit performing artists.

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"The goodness of this grant is that it comes unbidden."

— Eileen Myles, poet
2014 Grants to Artists | Poetry

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Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

Since FCA’s inception, more than 7,500 grants to artists and arts organizations—totaling almost $29 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and the realization of new work.

FCA encourages, sponsors, and promotes innovative work in the arts

2025 GranteesSee All 2025 Grantees

23 Contemporary Artists and Collectives Receive Unrestricted Grants of $45,000 each, including two Viola Farber Awards from Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

FCA: Artists for Artists

Works for SaleView All

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