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Grants to Artists

Unrestricted, by-nomination grants made to innovative artists working across the fields of dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts, these $45,000 cash awards are intended to provide recipients with the financial means to engage in any artistic endeavors they wish to pursue.

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The following Grants to Artists awards are endowed or funded by artist foundations:


John Cage Award
Merce Cunningham Award
Viola Farber Award
Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting
Roy Lichtenstein Award
Alvin Lucier Award for Music
Richard Pousette-Dart Award
Robert Rauschenberg Award
Dorothea Tanning Award
Cy Twombly Award for Poetry
C.D. Wright Award for Poetry

Six performers dressed in dark blue, yellow, and orange colors on a stage. Five of them move in various poses while the middle reads from an open laptop held upwards.

2018 grantee Netta Yerushalmy, performance still from FCA-supported Paramodernities, at Jacob's Pillow, Becket, MA, 2018. Performers (l-r): Stanley Gambucci, Jeremy Neal, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Nicholas Leichter, Brittany Engel-Adams, and Netta Yerushalmy.