The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

24 June 2026

Máquina Simple 4 (2026)

Beta-Local will be awarding 14 scholarships of $5,000 each to visual arts projects, totaling $70,000. This grant comes thanks to the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. This scholarship focuses on supporting experimental practices within the visual arts that respond to the current context of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, while also considering new ways of presenting and communicating aimed at diverse audiences. Beta-Local’s commitment as an organization is to support artistic practices that experiment with form, content, and presentation contexts, as well as projects with limited access to other production funds.

Máquina Simple, is an annual grant that supports visual arts projects responding to the current context of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Through sculpture, installation, painting, video art, sound art, performance art, and printed or digital publications.

 

Selected artists:

Ángel Blanco
Natalia Bosques Chico
Rocío Cáliz
Karla Claudio
Daniela Fabrizi y Edrimael Delgado
Joseph López Hidalgo
Alana Iturralde
Juan Carlos Malavé
Steve Maldonado Silvestrini
Leonardo Olazagasti
Wilyadiel Rodríguez
Luis Sanabria
Víctor Torres
Yolanda Velázquez
Cristina Vélez Roque

“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant