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$600,000 in Grants to Help Downtown Arts Groups
January 24, 2002
By ROBIN POGREBIN
In yet another attempt to help arts organizations hurt by
the events of Sept. 11, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts today announced $600,000 in emergency grants
for New York City arts groups below 14th Street.
The grants of $15,000 to $25,000 will go to 29 small to
midsize visual arts organizations in Lower Manhattan that
have financial hardships. "We really feel strongly that
these groups are just vital to the city," said Joel Wachs,
president of the foundation.
The Warhol grants follow an earlier $50,000 award made by
the foundation to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, an
arts group whose offices were in the World Trade Center
complex. Other foundations have made similar efforts to
help New York's artists. In November the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation announced that it was establishing a $50 million
fund for museums, theaters, dance companies and other
cultural institutions affected by the terrorist attacks as
well as for public parks where people gathered after the
disaster.
The first in a series of those awards, $2.65 million each,
are to go to three New York arts groups that are
grant-making organizations themselves: the Alliance of
Resident Theaters/New York, the American Music Center and
the New York Foundation for the Arts.
The New York Foundation for the Arts is leading the New
York Arts Recovery Fund, a partnership of arts-service
organizations started with grants of $600,000 from the
Rockefeller Foundation and the Robert Sterling Clark
Foundation. The recovery fund works with other groups to
issue emergency grants to artists, help artists navigate
the relief network, lobby for more support and develop
promotional campaigns.
While New Yorkers have been urged to return to the theater
and museums, Mr. Wachs said, smaller arts organizations,
which have a tough time to begin with, lacked such
advocacy. "All these smaller groups that are critical to
the scene here, they have the hardest time finding help,"
Mr. Wachs said. "That's who we're here to serve."
The emergency Warhol grants are for general operating
expenses, and are intended to help groups that have lost
revenue because of lower attendance, declining earned
income, cuts in city and state help and other effects of
the terrorist attacks.
"These are grants with no strings attached to help prevent
groups from having to fire someone, from having to back out
of something," Mr. Wachs said. "So many of the visual
artists in the city really get a start through these
organizations."
"It's going to make a tremendous difference to all of us,"
said Lisa Phillips, director of the New Museum of
Contemporary Art which received $25,000 from the
foundation. "Making a commitment to the creative energy
that is downtown is very significant."
Ms. Phillips said the museum, located on Broadway just
south of Houston Street, had seen a drop in earned income,
which makes up 60 percent of its budget, and that had
prompted a drop in contributed income. "Getting stable is
the number one priority," she said. "Then finding
innovative ways to go forward in a changed environment."
The 29 groups range in size from the New Museum down to
Dieu Donne Papermill, a small artists' workspace on Broome
Street. All either present visual art exhibitions or have
spaces that are used by artists to create their work.
The emergency grants will be made in addition to the
foundation's regular national grants program, which this
year will exceed $5 million. Mr. Wachs said that while many
public and private agencies had cut back on their grants,
the foundation wanted to assure its beneficiaries that its
traditional program would continue at its usual pace.
In addition, Mr. Wachs said, the foundation will consider
additional funds "as the needs arise."
"A lot of organizations have immediate needs," Mr. Wachs
added. "A little cash can go a long way for them. And we
hope this can get them on sounder footing."
Warhol Foundation Grants
These are the groups receiving
grants from the Warhol Foundation for the visual Arts:
A Gathering of Tribes
Anthology Film Archives
ApexArt
Art in General
Artists Space
Asian American Arts Center
Dieu Donne
Downtown Community Television
The Drawing
Center
Exit Art
Film/Video Arts
Franklin Furnace
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts
Henry Street Settlement
Here
Kenkeleba
Lower East Side Print Shop
Millennium Film Workshop
Museum for African Art
Museum of
Chinese in the Americas
New Museum
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Fifth Night
P.S. 1/Clocktower
P.S.
122
Rhizone
Storefront for Art and Architecture
White Columns
Women Make Movies
The Wooster
Group
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