The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought

Institution
Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought
Location
New Orleans, LA
Grant Cycle
Spring 2021
Amount
$60,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
https://riversinstitute.org/ ↗
Helen Cammock, There's a Hole In the Sky Part I, 2016. Film still. Image courtesy of the artist and Kate McGarry Gallery, London
Yto Barrada,Tangier Island Wall, 2019. Crab pots and charcoal, 39 3/8 × 94 1/2 × 18 7/8 inches. Installation view at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center at Governors Island. Photo by Brian J Green.
Troy Montes Michie, Rock of Eye, 2021. Forthcoming publication edited by Andrea Andersson and Lisa Pearson, and co-imprinted by Siglio Press, Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought (Rivers), and California African American Museum (CAAM). Courtesy of the artist and Siglio Press.
Troy Montes-Michie, This Body is Not a Fortress #3, 2019. Cut paper, ink, wax pencil, and tape on paper weaving, 17h x 11.25w in. Courtesy the artist and Company Gallery, New York

Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought (Rivers) is a non-profit institute for research, publishing and exhibitions of contemporary art. Based in New Orleans, Rivers recognizes art as forms of thought shaped by geographic, social, political, environmental, and economic histories. Rivers commits to research at the confluence of diverse bodies of knowledge and to art informed by diasporic experience and exchange.

Suturing material history and contemporary art practice, archival and curatorial experience, Rivers works in partnership with Amistad Research Center (ARC) to advance contemporary art that makes a study of history. Together they welcome artists from around the world to New Orleans for extended research and study in the development of new work, publications, and exhibitions. Operating at the periphery of a country and its capital, Rivers invests in the knowledge found and materialized in the margins of books and societies, and we work with a global network of partners to share it widely.

“Our granting program recognizes the equal importance of small, community-oriented spaces, major museums, and everything in between. Together, and with the foundation’s support, they work to collectively amplify the voices and visions of artists, which deepens and diversifies the national cultural discourse.”

Joel Wachs, President