GALVANIZE: For DC Artists: Wherewithal Grant Application Portal Opens Next Week

Subject: For DC Artists: Wherewithal Grant Application Portal Opens Next Week

The Application Portal for the 2022 Wherewithal Grant Cycle will Open Next Week! Dear DC-Area Artists and Collectives, We are so excited to announce the next cycle of Wherewithal Grants! Starting next week you can begin applying for these $5,000 grants to further your practice through collaborative research or group projects. You can choose to apply for either a research or project grant depending on which best supports your practice at this time. Wherewithal Grants are intended to advance a wide range of experimental and multidisciplinary practices, particularly those that emphasize collaboration and discourse. Research Grants funds can be used to compensate you for your intellectual labor and idea development, to pay other artists and thinkers for their time and contributions, and for costs associated with gaining access to specific resources. Project Grant monies can be used to support ongoing, or new, artist-organized projects that are presented publicly during the grant period in unconventional or D.I.Y. artist-run spaces. They cannot take place in commercial galleries, museums, or established non-profit art spaces. Applications will be reviewed by an independent panel of artists and arts professionals with up to 12 grants awarded. The grant period is from January–December 2022. We will provide more details next week when the application portal opens. In the meantime, please email Regrants Manager Nathalie von Veh at nvonveh@wpadc.org with any questions. Learn about our 2020–21 Research Grantees Screenshot from Ayana Zaire Cotton's research presentation on June 17, 2021 You can now access a selection of 2020–21 Wherewithal Research Grantee Presentations which were recorded earlier this summer. Learn about Ayana Zaire Cotton's research on abolitionist technology, Curry Hackett's inquiries into Black ecological practices and relationships, and Michelle Lisa Herman's important work examining the intersection of feminism, technology, art, and disability. Watch their presentations here. About Wherewithal Grants Wherewithal Grants are a funding source for visual artists in the DC-area. Generously funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its regional regranting program and managed by WPA, these grants are intended to both sustain and stimulate artist-organized culture. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program was established in 2007 to recognize and support the movement of independently organized, public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional art scenes but that lies beyond the reach of traditional funding sources. The program is administered by non-profit visual art centers across the United States that work in partnership with the Foundation to fund artists' experimental projects and collaborative undertakings. This Week: Bilphena Yahwon Takes Over WPA's Instagram From Wednesday, August 25 through Friday, August 27, WPA's summer Artist-Organizer-in-Residence, Bilphena Yahwon, will be taking over our Instagram account @wpadc to share where her research on pre-civil war Liberia has taken her during the past month while in residence in our space. Learn more about Yahwon's research and residency here. About WPA Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is a platform for collaborative and experimental artist-organized projects, dialogue, and advocacy. Artists curate and organize all of our programming—as an extension of their own intellectual research. Their projects can take many forms, from conversational dinners, exhibitions, field trips, film screenings, grass-roots organizing meetings, and installations, to lectures, performances, podcasts, publications, symposia, workshops, and more. Supporters WPA is grateful for those who help make this work possible. The best way to support our artist-organized programs is through a monthly contribution. Thank you! DONATE TODAY WPA is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Glenstone Foundation; The Corcoran Women's Committee; The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Hickok Cole Architects; and many other generous foundations, corporations, and individuals.

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