UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art – The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Location: Ridgewood, NY

Grant Cycle: Fall 2024

Amount: $100,000

Type of Grant: Multi-year Program Support

Website: uniondocs ↗

UnionDocs is a Center for Documentary Art that presents, produces, publishes, and educates. UnionDocs leads a diverse community on a search for urgent expressions of the human experience, practical perspectives on the world today, and compelling visions for the future.

Each year UnionDocs produce 3 LABS for 36 filmmakers supporting new work and encouraging long-lasting collaborations; design 24+ WORKSHOPS on the strongest traditions and most forward-looking experiments in documentary for 400+ participants; program 60+ EVENTS in person and online, that connect powerful nonfiction to relevant audiences and partner organizations, hosting important idea-driven conversations. It also manages grants toward sponsored artist’s PRODUCTION and runs a FELLOWSHIP program pairing 4 artists and 4 writers.

“The Warhol Foundation aims to support the full range of artistic activity in America—from exhibitions at major museums to neighborhood projects by artist collectives. Arts writers, through the range and specialization of their individual interests, touch upon all of this activity—illuminating and interrogating it and bringing it into conversation with the public. Support for artists is not complete without support for the circulation and serious consideration of their ideas. The Arts Writers Grant program keeps artists at the center of cultural dialogue and debate—in our opinion, right where they belong.”

Joel Wachs, President