The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

National Coalition Against Censorship

Location
New York, NY
Grant Cycle
Fall 2019
Amount
$150,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support

For nearly twenty years, the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Arts Advocacy Project has provided targeted assistance to artists and arts presenters facing censorship pressure. Through advocacy and education efforts it promotes public access to artists’ work and supports their ability to freely express views that might be unpopular or controversial. It works with institutions of every size, as well as with individual curators and administrators who are facing pressure to remove artwork or to preemptively cancel events that might cause controversy.


Beau Stanton's disputed mural on a school in Los Angeles 
We the Nipple art action with Spencer Tunick (summer 2019) calling for artistic freedom on Facebook and Instagram
Book cover for Smart Tactics
Karyn Olivier's counter-work to a disputed mural at the University of Kentucky

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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