The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Perrin Lathrop

Institution
Fisk University Galleries
Grant Cycle
Spring 2018
Amount
$50,000
Type of Grant
Curatorial Research Fellowships
Website
www.fiskuniversitygalleries.org ↗

Scheduled for the  Fall 2020, Fisk University Galleries in Nashville, Tennessee will open Art from Africa of Our Time: African Modernism in America, 1947-1967, the first major exhibition to examine the New York-based Harmon Foundation’s promotion of modern African art during the age of decolonization, the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War. The exhibition, drawn primarily from Fisk University’s art collection, will secure Fisk’s place as a center for research on African modernism and engage students in all stages of its planning. The Fellowship will also activate the history exposed in the exhibition by inviting a Lagos, Nigeria-based contemporary artist to create a new work in response.

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“It is an honor to be part of The Warhol Foundation’s mission to support the visual arts coupled with its commitment to specifically support the voices of women, POC, Native Americans, and LGBTQ. It is simply thrilling to be part of an organization where we get to see these values writ large and implement real change in real life ways in the visual arts community that still so needs to move forward in terms of social justice, equality, and diversity. We put our money where our mouth is. How many institutions actually do that?”

Deborah Kass, Artist