UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art – The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Location: Ridgewood, NY

Grant Cycle: Fall 2024

Amount: $100,000

Type of Grant: Multi-year Program Support

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UnionDocs is a Center for Documentary Art that presents, produces, publishes, and educates. UnionDocs leads a diverse community on a search for urgent expressions of the human experience, practical perspectives on the world today, and compelling visions for the future.

Each year UnionDocs produce 3 LABS for 36 filmmakers supporting new work and encouraging long-lasting collaborations; design 24+ WORKSHOPS on the strongest traditions and most forward-looking experiments in documentary for 400+ participants; program 60+ EVENTS in person and online, that connect powerful nonfiction to relevant audiences and partner organizations, hosting important idea-driven conversations. It also manages grants toward sponsored artist’s PRODUCTION and runs a FELLOWSHIP program pairing 4 artists and 4 writers.

1964

Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.