The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered through Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks ArtSpace and Project Row Houses, and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, announces the 2012 The Idea Fund Grantees.

The following ten Texas-based artists or artist groups will receive $4,000 ($3,500 for the awarded project, plus $500 seed money for future work) to create and showcase projects in the coming year:

Scott Gleeson & Dane Larsen

Carrie Schneider

Michelle Benaim Steiner

Lope Gutierrez Ruiz & Alexander Wright

Aaron Dubrow

Xochi Solis

Jules Buck Jones

Drew Liverman

Scott Eastwood

Margit Raczkowski

Timothy Schmidt & Carlos Rosales-Silva

Alejandro Saenz Jr. (Kingspoint Crew)

Lakes Were Rivers collective

Ariel Evans & Richard Yanas

Nestor Topchy & Robert Rosenberg

Lauren Woods

Christina Sukhgian Houle

Of the more than 170 applications submitted to The Idea Fund from across Texas, these ten were selected by The Idea Fund Panelists as projects that most exemplify artistic practices that fall outside the traditional frameworks of support, one of the main requirements of the grant. This year’s panelists were: Kate Hackman (Co-Director, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, Mo.), J. Hill (Houston-based artist and former recipient of Idea Fund grant), Noah Simblist (Austin/Dallas-based artist, curator and writer; and associate professor of art at SMU), and Michelle White (curator at The Menil Collection).

The Idea Fund is the second re-granting initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, following the pilot program, Alternative Exposure, administrated by Southern Exposure in San Francisco, CA. The Idea Fund is structured to provide artists with quick access to substantial financial support for projects that might not otherwise have access to funding.

Michelle White: Associate Curator, Menil Collection, Houston
Noah Simblist: artist, writer and curator, Dallas
Kate Hackman: Associate Director of Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
J.Hill: 2008-2009 TIF grantee – Welcome Wagon project, Houston

The Idea Fund is seeking ten Texas-based artist-generated projects to award a $4,000 grant.  Want more information?  Join an information session in one of the following Texas locations or check out the online webinar located at www.theideafund.org.

Wednesday, August 17, 6PM

Aurora Picture Show (1524 Sul Ross, Houston, TX 77006)

www.aurorapictureshow.org

Wednesday, August 31, 6PM

DiverseWorks (1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002)

www.diverseworks.org

Thursday, September 8, 6:30PM

Artpace (445 N. Main Ave., San Antonio, TX  78205)

www.artpace.org

Thursday, September 15, 12PM

Project Row Houses (2521 Holman Street, Houston, TX, 77004)

www.projectrowhouses.org

Dates for Austin, El Paso and Dallas are to be announced.

Visit www.ideafund.org for more information.

Applications deadline is Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 at 11:59p.m.

We celebrated the 2011 The Idea Fund grantees at a special public reception and presentation of the grantees’ projects on Wednesday February 2nd, 2011, at Eldorado Ballroom. The Idea Fund is an innovative re-granting program for Texas-based artists, administered through Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks Artspace and Project Row Houses, and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

To RSVP for this event, please contact Tracey Morton (tracey@diverseworks.org or 713.223.8346)

*RSVP is preferred and must be received by Monday, Jan. 24, 2011.

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The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered through Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks ArtSpace and Project Row Houses, and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, announces the 2011 The Idea Fund Grantees. The following ten Texas-based artists or artist groups will receive $4,000 ($3,500 for the awarded project, plus $500 seed money for future work) to create and showcase projects in the coming year: ArtScouts Houston (Elaine Bradford, Emily Link, Dennis Nance, Jill Pangallo, C.H. JoAnn Park); Boozefox (Drew Liverman, Jules Buck Jones, Michael Phalan, Scott Eastwood); Nathaniel Donnett; David Feil and Amye McCarther; Christine Foerster; GENDER book creators (Boston Bostian, Mel Reiff Hill, Jay Mays); Leila Grothe and Cynthia Mulcahy; Buster Graybill; Andy Rihn; and The Rio Grande Collective (Mattie Matthaei, Eileen Torpey, Bett Williams). Descriptions of the funded projects are listed below.

Nearly 200 applications were submitted to The Idea Fund from across Texas, these ten were selected by The Idea Fund Panelists as projects that most exemplify artistic practices that fall outside the traditional frameworks of support, one of the main requirements of the grant. This year’s panelists were Bill Arning (Director, Contemporary Art Museum Houston), Kate Lorenz (Executive Director, Hyde Park Art Space, Chicago) and Andrea Mellard (Assistant Curator, Austin Museum of Art).

The Idea Fund is the second re-granting initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, following the pilot program, Alternative Exposure, administrated by Southern Exposure in San Francisco, CA. The Idea Fund is structured to provide artists with quick access to substantial financial support for projects that might not otherwise have access to funding.

“I cherished my role as an Idea Fund panelist for many reasons, but one stands out,” said CAMH’s Bill Arning. “As a new Texan, having moved to Houston in 2009, I feared that the work being made here might be more conservative than what I enjoyed in New York and Boston. After seeing so many wonderful proposals of non-traditional artwork, I am happy to say that the artists we funded produce the edgiest art being made anywhere. As a lifelong advocate of avantgardist practices that does my heart and soul good to see.”

2011 The Idea Fund Grantees and their Projects:

ArtScouts Houston (Elaine Bradford, Emily Link, Dennis Nance, C.H. JoAnn Park) – Nohegan East: An art-making weekend retreat with a focus on community. (Houston-Pearland)

Boozefox (Drew Liverman, Jules Buck Jones, Michael Phalan, Scott Eastwood) – Battleship Earth: A large sculpture/watercraft resembling an iceberg, which will be “driven” around Lady Bird Lake over the course of one or more days. (Austin)

Nathaniel Donnett – What’s The New News?: A project that will challenge, respond to, and juxtapose, the way we read the news and how rap and poetry interprets it, the differences in generations when seeking information regarding issues and current events specifically in Houston’s Third Ward. (Houston)

David Feil, Amye McCarther – Andrus Studios Archive: An artist-volunteer run archive of a collection of audio reels from Andrus Studios, an independent, progressive and artist-directed recording studio owned and operated in Houston by Walt Andrus from 1964 to 1971. (Houston)

Christine Foerster – Fish.taco.ponic: A fully functioning aquaponic greenhouse to be built, maintained, narrated and exhibited in collaboration with students and community members of Segundo Barrio, El Paso. (El Paso)

GENDER book creators(Boston Bostian; Mel Reiff Hill; Jay Mays) – the GENDER book(let): A colorful, highly-illustrated resource, short in length and with detailed real-life experiences, the GENDER book serves as a starter manual that presents the beautiful diversity of gender. (Houston)

Leila Grothe, Cynthia Mulcahy – Square Dance: A Community Project: This project proposes art as social practice in the form of an outdoor seasonal community dance at the new Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas. (Dallas)

Buster Graybill – The Progeny of Tush Hog: This project will document the offspring of Tush Hogs, a hybrid species of Minimalist sculptures and deer feeders discovered near Marfa, TX, as they continually adapt and migrate towards the urban centers of San Antonio and Houston. (Converse, TX)

Andy Rihn – Texas’ Longest Hammer Choir: To make a slow rolling short film of an event consisting of 500 people hitting hammers together across abandoned railroad tracks, filmed from a custom-made railroad cart that houses the soundtrack musicians, propulsionists and film makers. (Austin)

The Rio Grande Collective (Mattie Matthaei, Eileen Torpey, Bett Williams) – The River is the Road Festival: Our project is a street festival and a site specific video art installation in the historic Sacred Heart Chapel currently under restoration by the Texas Historic Commission. (Marfa – Ruidosa, TX).

Thanks,

Tracey

]]> http://www.theideafund.org/tif-grantees-coming-soon/feed/ 0 http://www.theideafund.org/pland-potluck-and-re-use-tour/ http://www.theideafund.org/pland-potluck-and-re-use-tour/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:14:10 +0000 admin http://www.theideafund.org/?p=447 Skydive is pleased to open its new home at 2041 Norfolk Street to present Saturday Free School & Pot-luck with PLAND on Nov 13th. PLAND founders Erin Elder, Nina Elder, and Nancy Zastudil will also visit the University of Houston November 12-15, 2010 to collaborate with University of Houston, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center IART Program “Art & Activism” students to create a tour of re-purposed architecture in the rich landscape of Houston; both are open for public participation. PLAND was a 2010 recipient of the Warhol Foundation Idea Fund Grant.

PLAND Building living structure. Image by PLAND

PLAND, Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation, is an off-the-grid residency program that supports the development of experimental and research-based projects in the context of the Taos mesa in New Mexico. PLAND finds its inspiration in a legacy of pioneers, entrepreneurs, homesteaders, artists, and other counterculturalists who – through both radical and mundane activities – reclaim and reframe a land-based notion of the American Dream. Part alternative school, part laboratory, part homestead, part art studio, PLAND is an active solution for merging art into life.

Schedule is as follows:

Saturday, Nov 13: Saturday Free School for the Arts & Potluck with PLAND

12:30-2:30pm @ 2041 Norfolk St

Bring your favorite fall dish to share, as well as plate, bowl, cup and utensils. Join PLAND for a shared meal and experimental dish-washing workshop focused on actively rethinking the power grid and living with limited resources.  Learn about PLAND’s unique approach to residency programming, sustainability, and alternative community building.

Please RSVP to info@theskydive.org

Monday, November 15: Houston area re-use tour with UH Mitchell Center students

11-2pm meets at 2041 Norfolk Street

PLAND will collaborate with UH Mitchell Center IART Program “Art & Activism” students to create a tour of Houston “re-use” that includes repurposed buildings, reclaimed structures, re-imagined sites, recycled materials, and other forms of re-use. Students will act as tour guides as PLAND founders respond with a group discussion about environment and landscape, determined use value, capital/currency/exchange, social change, direct action, and rural vs urban agricultural practices.

Bring your own re-use location to share, with map in-hand, to add to the tour.