The multidisciplinary arts center DiverseWorks in Houston has been at the forefront of experimental practice for almost four decades. The organization fosters innovative collaborations and supports emerging artists through commissions, exhibitions, performances and publications, presenting artworks that foster civic participation and aesthetic risk-taking from its home base at MATCH (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) and throughout the city.
DiverseWorks
Qollective, I’m Ever So Pissed, performance at the opening of their exhibition, Tread Loudly, June 28, 2019 at Alabama Song (Houston). Photo: Aasiyah Baig.
Lily Cox-Richard with students, in the exhibition Lily Cox-Richard: Berm (September 21 – November 3, 2018). Photo: Paul Hester
Ángel Lartigue, Untitled Pact, performance at Bayou City Be All, October 20, 2019.
Photo: Disha Khakeria
Installation view: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin - 50 States: Louisiana (February 29 - April 18, 2020). Courtesy of DiverseWorks, Houston. Photo: Paul Hester.
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FAQ
General Information Q: What does the Foundation do? A: The foundation manages an innovative and flexible grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the foundation has given over $260 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations […]
Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Fall 2019 Grants
16 January 2020
New Venture Fund – Media Democracy Fund
Washington, DC
1986
Warhol painted more than 100 works related to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, which some have read as complex reckoning of his homosexuality, Catholicism, and mortality in response to witnessing AIDS devastate the gay community.