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Tei Blow and Sean McElroy stand side by side, vocalizing into microphones and bathed in green light. They stand in sharp focus in front of a projection screen where there is a woman's face displayed out of focus. Both are wearing large golden headpieces and golden halter tops made of metallic, sparkly fabric. Blow's headpiece is flat-topped where McElroy's is tapered and cone-shaped with a rounded tip.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded more than $27 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,300 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2024 Ellsworth Kelly Award to Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCAD)

Performance still from Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble's Everything One in the Disc of the Sun at the James A. Farley Post Office, New York, 2013. Performers: Tei Blow and Sean McElroy. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Performance still from Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble's Everything One in the Disc of the Sun at the James A. Farley Post Office, New York, 2013. Performers: Tei Blow and Sean McElroy. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Hsiao-Jou Tang is centered, dancing in a brightly lit, bare white room. She is bent forward as she steps, head tilted down, with her elbows raised by the sides of her head. She is wearing a long sleeved, loose white dress.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded more than $27 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,000 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2024 Grants to Artists Awards

Performance still from for North, Xan Burley + Alex Springer, at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, 2016. Photo by Andrew Ribner.

Performance still from for North, Xan Burley + Alex Springer, at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, 2016. Photo by Andrew Ribner.

A performer is centered, standing in a concrete performance space holding a large empty picture frame. They are barefoot and wearing tan coveralls with the top lowered and the arms tied around their bare waist. They wear a smiling Obama mask.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded more than $27 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,000 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2024 Grants to Artists Awards

Performance still from The Rise and Fall of the Huxtable Family at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2019. Performers: Nile Harris and Kellian Delice. Photo by Ayka Lux.

Performance still from The Rise and Fall of the Huxtable Family at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2019. Performers: Nile Harris and Kellian Delice. Photo by Ayka Lux.

Joanna Kotze is centered as she performs on a dark stage with minimal yellow lighting, some dancers are visible in the far background behind her. She looks towards the left with concentration as she lunges forward on her left leg, hips pointing to the left. Her torso twists as her shoulders angle towards the camera. Her left arm is bent as her hand rests on her left hip, and her right arm is extended and reaches out and up to the left where she lunges, hand outstretched with her palm facing down. She wears a gold metallic shortsleeved tunic.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded more than $27 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,000 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2024 Grants to Artists Awards

Performance still from 'lectric Eye at The Space at Irondale, Brooklyn, 2022. Performer: Joanna Kotze. Photo by Maria Baranova.

Performance still from 'lectric Eye at The Space at Irondale, Brooklyn, 2022. Performer: Joanna Kotze. Photo by Maria Baranova.

A dark gallery space with checkered stone floors and a large, concave projection screen curved to fit the shape of the room. On the projection screen, two video frames are displayed. On the left half of the screen is an image of four women athletes turned to listen to an offscreen speaker. One is wearing a crewneck that says,
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded more than $27 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,000 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2024 Grants to Artists Awards

Installation view of Sharon Hayes' Ricerche: two, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, 2021.

Installation view of Sharon Hayes' Ricerche: two, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, 2021.

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24 artists working in 5 disciplines

Nathan Young looks directly at the camera in front of a dark blue, out of focus background. He is wearing a light blue linen button down shirt with white buttons.
Nathan Young
John Cage Award
Music/Sound
Athena LaTocha stands in front of a stony gray background and looks directly at the camera. She is dressed in a white button up blouse.
Athena LaTocha
Grants to Artists
Visual Arts
Suzanne Jackson looks directly into the camera, standing before an abstract painted background of mostly cream and yellow hues. She is wearing a mint green turtleneck under a brown sweater, and dangling earrings.
Suzanne Jackson
Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting
Visual Arts
Takako Yamaguchi looks to the right of the camera and smiles showing her teeth, and in front of a beige background. She is wearing round black eyeglasses and a black knit turtleneck.
Takako Yamaguchi
Grants to Artists
Visual Arts
Hoa Nguyen stands before a green concrete surface with red and green ivy behind her and growing on a wooden lattice in the background to the right. Her face is turned and she smiles to the right while her body faces the camera. Her right arm is by her side while her left hand holds the strap of the shoulder bag on her left shoulder. She is wearing a blue coat, open over a black blouse with a beaded checkered pattern and black, hanging, teardrop-shaped accent beads. She wears a dark gray fingerless glove and carries a black leather bag with a leather chain link strap.
Hoa Nguyen
C.D. Wright Award for Poetry
Poetry
A black and white photo of Sam Contis turned at a three quarter angle facing the camera. She stands against a stone grey background, wearing a solid black sweater and small hoop earrings.
Sam Contis
Grants to Artists
Visual Arts
A black and white portrait of Koichi Makigami, who stands in sharp focus before a solid light background. His head is turned slightly to the left while his body faces the camera. His elbows are raised and his hands are posed loosely in front of him with pointer fingers extended. He is wearing a black silk button up top with frog closures.
Koichi Makigami
Grants to Artists
Music/Sound
Photograph of Karyn Olivier looking towards the camera in front of a stone wall. She wears a colorful necklace, an orange button down shirt with white polka dots, and light green pans. Her shadow is visible in the framer.
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit: Karyn Olivier exhibition
Ellsworth Kelly Award
Visual Arts
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FCA Announces 2024 Ellsworth Kelly Award Recipient Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCA) for an exhibition of Karyn Olivier

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FCA Announces 2024 Ellsworth Kelly Award Recipient Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCA) for an exhibition of Karyn Olivier

Karyn Olivier, Fortified, 2020, ICA Philadelphia. Photo credit: Constance Mensh.

FCA: Artists for Artists
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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Grant Impact

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

— Eileen Myles, poet
2014 Grants to Artists | Poetry

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Youngerman, Jack Youngerman, 1973
Jack Youngerman
"Youngerman"
Untitled, Siobhan Liddell, 2010
Siobhan Liddell
Untitled
The Accordion Player #1, Donald Baechler, 1995
Donald Baechler
The Accordion Player #1
black and blue, Sonia Louise Davis, 2017
Sonia Louise Davis
black and blue

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