Andrea Fraser Named Grant Recipient of Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award
Winners for 2017 include a formidable mix of established and emerging artists
Since 1963, from its roots in an emergency fundraising drive for the fledgling dancer Merce Cunningham (led by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts has endured as an artist-led enterprise to support other artists, with the awarding of unrestricted $40,000 grants among its primary pursuits.
Winners for 2017 were announced today—they include a formidable mix of established and emerging artists, in a range of different disciplines. In addition, the FCA announced a new annual Dorothea Tanning Award to be given alongside the existing awards, this one going to the poet Liz Waldner and supported via a $1 million endowment gift from the Destina Foundation.
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Department of Art professor Andrea Fraser is one of four visual artists to have received an award.
View the list of 2017 awardees here.