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A fledgling New York nonprofit has arrived on the arts scene with a $15.8 million endowment and the goal of supporting individual artists through unrestricted grants. The Trellis Art Fund will award $100,000 each to a dozen artists who are US citizens or permanent residents of the country. The money, which will be issued in $50,000 payments over two years, comes with no strings attached. Of note, two grants will be reserved for artists who are parents or guardians of children under twelve. The foundation aims to foster inclusivity by elevating artists from groups that have historically been both commercially and institutionally underrepresented. With the aim of community-building, Trellis will additionally support an annual retreat featuring professional development workshops and offering participating artists the chance to share their work. Related ART BASEL REVEALS EXHIBITOR LIST FOR 2024 SWISS FAIR COURTNEY J. MARTIN TAPPED TO LEAD RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION decorative welded panel fence
According to Artnews, the foundation is funded in large part by Nigel Dawn, global head of the private capital advisory group at independent investment banking advisory firm Evercore and husband of artist and editor Corina Larkin, who is serving as the organization’s director. Trellis Art Fund is guided by a five-person advisory board comprising writer and curator David Evans Frantz, artist Arlene Shechet, curator Marcela Guerrero, curator and educator Akili Tommasino, and writer and curator Eugenie Tsai. The quintet in January invited seventy-five arts professionals to nominate up to three artists apiece. Those artists will be invited to apply this month, after which an anonymous jury of five will choose the twelve grantees. The inaugural cohort of Trellis Art Fund awardees will be announced this summer.
“The work of individual artists is so greatly undervalued in our society; the time and resources that go into making art is not always well understood. Trellis wants to make a statement that creative work is important, and we want to make the creative process a little easier for a few artists. Perhaps extra support at the right time in their career will offer some security and freedom,” said Larkin in a statement. “It is our hope that Trellis can serve as the ‘keep going grant’ that provides awardees the ability and encouragement to reach that next level.”
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