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Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces "Olivia Shao Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit Foundation for Contemporary Arts"

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces its eighteenth benefit exhibition.

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FCA encourages, sponsors, and promotes innovative work in the arts

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24 artists working in 5 disciplines

Maayan Tsadka mid-performance. She is wearing a black sweater, glasses, and her hair pulled up. In one hand, Tsadka is holding a couple of dried plants close to a microphone on a mic stand. The mic is pointing downwards and is very close to one of the dried plants. In the other hand, she is holding a tuning fork close. Tsadka is looking intensely at the close mic’d plant and in the foreground of the photo blurred leaves are visible. The background, also blurry, is softly lit by a purple light.
Maayan Tsadka
Grants to Artists
Music/Sound
Headshot of Lukas Avendaño. Avendaño looks at the camera, her hair is covering her left eye and folded into various parts of the beaded turquoise necklace wrapped around her neck in multiple layers. She is wearing a dangling silver earring in her right ear and is shirtless. There is a black backdrop behind Avendaño.
Lukas Avendaño
Grants to Artists
Performance Art/Theater
Portrait of Christopher Cozier adjusting a row of pennant string flags in a gallery space. There are 7 rows in total, with each flag painted with different images in what are varying earth tones, in addition to red and bright green. Images on the flags include varying stars, candy wrappers, leafs, the moon, and what resembles the Cuban flag, minus the star. Each flag has two binder clips on it, attaching it to a white string. The flags are installed against white gallery walls, above a white floor. On the wall behind Christopher is a framed artwork.
Christopher Cozier
Roy Lichtenstein Award
Visual Arts
Portrait of Janet Olivia Henry looking at the camera and holding her arms across her chest, wearing a suede purple button down jacket over a white collard shirt, a white hat, as well as jewelry on her wrists, fingers and ear. Henry’s jacket is decorated with a pin of an animated black cat on its collar. Behind and to the left of Henry is a dangling sculpture composed of beads.
Janet Olivia Henry
Grants to Artists
Visual Arts
Ogemdi Ude sitting on a wooden and metal chair in a dance studio. She is in front of the photographer and looking directly at the camera, wearing a blank tank top, black pants, and with a bright purple manicure. Her left hand is positioned on her neck gently touching her jawline. Her right hand, partially cut off in the frame, rests on her knee.
Ogemdi Ude
Grants to Artists
Dance
Headshot of Onyx Ashanti in a studio, looking at the camera with their hands by their ears as they display their multi-colored exodermal mesh interface over the top half of their body. The interface begins at the top center of their head, going down their forehead to their nose, at which point it becomes symmetrical. It also rests on their cheeks, lips, beard, chest, forearms, and hands.
Onyx Ashanti
Grants to Artists
Music/Sound
Headshot of Paul Lazar. Lazar looks at the camera, smiling with his teeth. He’s wearing a blue suit with a black button up shirt underneath. Lazar appears to be on a red carpet or at corporate event entrance, standing in front of a white backdrop that includes two red shapes and a black line. The image is cropped just over his head and below his chest, presumably cutting others who were originally in the photo with him.
Paul Lazar
John Cage Award
Performance Art/Theater
Anh Vo gestures forward with one hand, captured mid-performance with their mouth open. They are wearing a white fur vest over a long sleeve black dress with printed gold chains running up and down. The room is dimly lit, creating shadows and a purple hue in the background.
Anh Vo
Grants to Artists
Dance

Since 1963, FCA has awarded over $31.5 million to artists and arts organizations through more than 8,000 grants

Since 1963, FCA has awarded over $31.5 million to artists and arts organizations through more than 8,000 grants

Ian Andrew Askew, SLAMDANCE garage, 2025 at The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Maria Baranova.

FCA: Artists for Artists
About FCA

FCA: Artists for Artists

In 1962 Jasper Johns, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and other painters and sculptors came together to help Merce Cunningham and his dance company finance a proposed season on Broadway by arranging for a sale of their artworks. Their fund-raising efforts were so successful that there was money to spare, and when they asked Cunningham what he thought they should do with it, he replied, “We’re all in the same boat—why don’t you give it to other performing artists?” Thus in 1963 Jasper Johns and John Cage established the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts based on the belief that visual artists—painters and sculptors—were sufficiently concerned about the state of the performance arts—dance, theater, and music—enough so to donate artwork to benefit performing artists. 

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Grant Impact

“The greatest benefit of the award was having the luxury to develop work slowly and to experiment. Instead of rushing through my work under pressure to produce, I chose to work slowly, thoughtfully, spontaneously, and sometimes recklessly, taking time to look for something new instead of using old patterns and processes.”

— Annie Gosfield, composer
2008 Grants to Artists | Music/Sound

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Youngerman, Jack Youngerman, 1973
Jack Youngerman
"Youngerman"
Reflection, Ivan Forde, 2017
Ivan Forde
Reflection
Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Target with Four Faces), Jasper Johns, 1968
Jasper Johns
"Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Target with Four Faces)"
Image of a pixelated yellow fox against a white background.
Michael Joo
Assisted

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