The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Atlantic Center for the Arts

Location
New Smyrna Beach, FL
Grant Cycle
Fall 2021
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
atlanticcenterforthearts.org ↗
Entrance to Atlantic Center for the Arts Leeper Studio Complex. Photo by Eric White.
Residency #179, Associate Artist Ester Partegas in front of her work.
Residency #181, Mentoring Artist Suzanne Bocanegra with Associate Artist Sandy Williams.
Residency #183, Mentoring Artist Gregg Deal with Associate Artist Yunfei Ren.

Founded in in 1977 by Doris Leeper, an internationally known sculptor and painter, as well as a visionary environmentalist, Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) is a non-profit multidisciplinary artist residency facility located in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

ACA organizes programs for artists of all ages and professional levels. The Mentoring ArtistsResidency is the core program, and it has served over 3,500 emerging and mid-career artists from many disciplines. The residency is unique in that it is a mentoring program that couples prominent Mentoring Artists with selected Associate Artists for three-week periods.

The Mentoring Visual Artists who are leading ACA’s 2022 and 2023 residencies to date are Guadalupe Maravilla, Patrick Martinez, Ryan McGinness, Pamela Z, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Paul Rucker, Ernesto Pujol, and Dean Haspiel. The 200 artists who will attend these residencies will have the intellectual freedom, time, and space to create without any constraints, and to explore and develop peer-to-peer collaborations and networks. Five free events during each residency will stimulate open discussion and inquiry among the artists and with the public, engaging our community and partners. Individual and collaborative works-in-progress will be presented at the end of each residency.

 

 

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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