The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Eric Crosby

Institution
Carnegie Museum of Art
Grant Cycle
Spring 2018
Amount
$50,000
Type of Grant
Curatorial Research Fellowships

Working Thought will be a multigenerational group exhibition of 30 artists conceived of and curated by Eric Crosby that will take on issues of income inequality. Crosby’s exhibition directly considers how labor, class, relative opportunity, and wealth inform a diverse and inclusive range of contemporary artistic practice. Crosby undertook extensive exploratory travel around the United States, mindful that economic conditions that impact the thinking and output of artists vary regionally. Travel to the Pacific Northwest to visit artists and activists as well as museum curators working on new models of inclusion and artist engagement was conducted; visits to the South to meet artists and the archives at Souls Grown Deep Foundation; and the Rust-Belt and mid-Atlantic states to be on-location with filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson. Crosby convened two conferences in Pittsburgh, and recorded conversations and exchanges with artists, curators, and other culture-makers to be published in print and online as a future resource for colleagues.

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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