The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the 49 recipients of its 2024 grants, including DiverseWorks and the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, and the Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin.
In a press release, Joel Wachs, President of the Warhol Foundation, said, “The precarious nature of our current world reinforces our resolve to be steadfast in our support of artists and their communities. The Warhol Foundation believes that artists and the institutions that support them make invaluable contributions to our culture. Supporting these organizations ensures that they can continue to nurture creativity and resilience and to amplify the voices of artists.”
DiverseWorks has received $100,000 through the Multi-year Program Support grant. This award provides funds up to 25% of an organization’s annual operating budget to support visual arts programming over two years. The Blaffer has received $100,000 in exhibition program support over two years.
Art Galleries at Black Studies Christian Green Gallery
The AGBS has been awarded $50,000 to support a Curatorial Research Fellowship. In a press release by UT’s College of Liberal Arts, the funded project was described as “study[ing] conceptual art’s intersections with community-based film and photography movements during the 1980s.” The project, developed by AGBS Research Fellow Dr. Ariel Evans, includes a convening that will take place during the exhibition Something Grand, scheduled to be on view from January 30 through May 9, 2026. The research will be presented in a publication, titled Something Grander Still, in Fall 2027.
See the full list of grantees via the Warhol Foundation website.
