The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Generator Fund

Partner
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art
Location
Buffalo, NY
Website
genereatorfund.org ↗

The Generator fund is located in the Buffalo region of New York State, the birthplace of electric power as we know it: Nikola Tesla used the power of the Niagara River to create the first alternating current and transmit electricity over a great distance. Drawing from that historic development, the Generator Fund, administered by the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art will provide grants totally $60,000 annually in support for visual arts projects that propose new directions for the creation and presentation of contemporary art.

In alignment with the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Art’s Regional Regranting Program, this fund will target informal, non-incorporated artist collectives and independent organizers whose work often falls outside the reach of typical funding sources. The Generator Fund is meant to fund artistic activity outside of the studio, encourage collaboration, and foster new connections among artists in Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and the suburban and rural areas that surround us.

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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