The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

DiverseWorks

Location
Houston, TX
Grant Cycle
Fall 2021
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
www.diverseworks.org ↗
Bianca Medina and Tatiana Zamir in rehearsal for Body as a Crossroads. Photo: Bobby Gordon.
Virginia Grise and Tanya Orellana, rasgos asiáticos – sobremesa, multi-media installation at the Train Shed at Sawyer Yards, Houston, Texas, 2021. Commissioned by DiverseWorks. Photo: Paul Hester.
Candice D’Meza, WAIL, production photograph, 2021. Pictured: Aria Hope, Stacey Allen, Candice D’Meza, Lindsay Gary, Saida Carter. Commissioned by DiverseWorks. Photo: Arthur Ornelas/Ricomel Productions.

DiverseWorks is known in Houston, Texas and far beyond as a champion of experimental, cross- disciplinary collaboration in contemporary artistic practice. The organization supports artists through its exhibitions and performance programs, its residencies and commissions, and its incubation of public art projects that build bridges across artistic divides and across communities in the city. It also hosts the Diverse Discourse lecture series and the Studio Visit program that bring curators, critics, artists and arts leaders to Houston from across the country. Diverseworks is located at the Midtown Arts and Theater Center where it has a dedicated gallery space and shares flexible indoor and outdoor performance spaces with other arts organizations.

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“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