Grant Recipients

History of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Bill Giles, Anna Moreska, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and FCA Co-Founders John Cage and Jasper Johns, Dillon's Bar, New York, 1959. Photo by Fred W. McDarrrah/Premium Archive/Getty Images.

History of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Merce Cunningham and FCPA co-founder John Cage, c. 1968. © Jack Mitchell.

History of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

FCA Co-Founder Jasper Johns at his Riverside Drive studio, New York City, 1964. Photo by Bob Adelman.

History of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Merce Cunningham, 1964 grantee, Canfield, performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, 1970. Photo by James Klosty.

History of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

FCPA co-founder John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg outside Sadler's Wells theater, London, on FCPA-supported Cunningham Dance Company World Tour, late July-early August 1964. Photo by Douglas H. Jeffrey. © V&A Department of Theatre & Performance.

History of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Original FCPA Board member Lewis Lloyd, Merce Cunningham, FCPA co-founder John Cage, and Cunningham dancer Viola Farber (FCPA Director from 1969-1998) in India, on FCPA-supported Cunningham Dance Company World Tour, October 1964.