Artist "Genius” Awards Announced
A consortium of foundations have invested in a new initiative to provide grants for working artists that mirrors (in a vague way considering the amount of the awards) the MacAurthur Foundation’s “genius” awards.
Four foundations — Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential and the Alaska-based Rasmuson— have put up a total of $20 million to create the organization and seed its initial operations, but the goal is for it to become a conduit between artists and individual donors.
It is a great start, though, to begin to showcase artists that are so often invisible in our increasingly mercantile culture.
Here are the details in the Paper of Record.