The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

Location
Ridgewood, NY
Grant Cycle
Fall 2024
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
uniondocs ↗

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.

“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