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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

Portrait of Kearra Amaya Gopee. Gopee stands on a sidewalk, looking into the camera while resting their arms on a black iron gate. They are wearing a black leather jacket, sunglasses with a thick rectangular white frame, a silver chainmail necklace, a silver hoop earring, a silver curved barbell eyebrow ring, and black lipstick.
Kearra Amaya Gopee
Grants to Artists
Visual Arts
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
Portrait of Elle Perez. Perez is looking directly at the camera with their head tilted to the side. They are standing in front of what appears to be a wall of vibrant green plants with large leaves. To the left of the frame a silver car and a washed tan brick building are visible. Perez is dressed in a black t-shirt and raincoat and their curly hair is cropped short.
Elle Pérez
Grants to Artists
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
Headshot of Brenda Coultas. Coultas is looking at the camera, wearing a white long sleeve button-up collared shirt. Her body is positioned between the two different materials on the wall behind her. To Coultas' right is a patterned curtain in autumn colors with a bit of baby blue. To her left is wallpaper with beige, white, seafoam blue and baby blue lines running up and down, separated by color, and interrupted by dark yellow and blue shapes.
Brenda Coultas
C.D. Wright Award for Poetry
Poetry
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 Olivia Block looking directly at the camera. She is wearing a black shirt and a black vest. Behind her is dark fig color backdrop with wrinkles.
Olivia Block
Alvin Lucier Award for Music
Music/Sound
Portrait of Jennifer Elise Foerster wearing a black long sleeve top and blue jeans. She is looking at the camera while sitting down with her right leg up, which she is resting her left hand on as well as her right elbow. Foerster's right hand is in the air just over her left shoulder. There is a grey backdrop behind her.
Jennifer Elise Foerster
Grants to Artists
Poetry

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 goodness of this grant is that it comes unbidden."

— Eileen Myles, poet
2014 Grants to Artists | Poetry

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Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Target with Four Faces), Jasper Johns, 1968
Jasper Johns
"Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Target with Four Faces)"
A semi transparent peach-colored asymmetrical rectangle shape with an oval cut-out superimposed atop gray brushstrokes resembling a checkerboard weave pattern.
Sam Moyer
Untitled
John Baldessari: Double Bill (Part 2), John Baldessari, 2012
John Baldessari
"John Baldessari: Double Bill (Part 2)"
Reflection, Ivan Forde, 2017
Ivan Forde
Reflection

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