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Infinity/ʎʇıuıɟuI

by Plamen Yordanov

Guggenheim Fellowship

Support the Infinity/ʎʇıuıɟuI project to be shown at the Venice Biennale, Italy
  • Visual Arts
IL
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$0 of $10,500 funded (0%)

'Irene' a contemporary original ballet, score and story

by shaun dougherty

'Irene' is a contemporary Ballet featuring an original story and original composition set in current times.
  • Dance
  • Music
  • Theater Arts
DE
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$2,700 of $10,000 funded (27%)
$5K

NEW [a short film]

by John Harden

USA Creative Vision Award, 2013

An elderly couple, frozen at death, awaken in a distant future, young and healthy, to struggle with future shock & identity crises.
  • Media
CA
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$22,115 of $22,000 funded (100%)

Song of the Cicada

by Richard Robinson

Virginia Museum of Fine Art Professional Fellowship

Song of the Cicadas compares the experience of an American Political Prisoner's incarceration to that of a Cicadas years underground.
  • Media
  • Visual Arts
VA
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$455 of $3,300 funded (13%)

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    Goal to invest in America's finest artists and projects.

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DISCOVER United States Artists.

  • Margery and Michael in the pottery studio, smiling
    Drawing House
    by Katharine DeShaw
    Executive Director

    Michael Sherrill used his USA Fellowship funds to build a “home”
    for their resident artists. Read more

  • The MO/RE/AL exhibition in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    At the contemporary art space SITE Santa Fe.
    Photo by Katharine DeShaw.
    USA Fellows Manglano-Ovalle, Robleto and Lin Featured in MO/RE/AL Exhibition
    by Katharine DeShaw
    Executive Director
    A biomorphic threshold created by USA Hoi Fellow Greg Lynn. USA Guthman Fellow Inigo Manglano-Ovalle’s Phantom Truck, 2007 and three pieces contributed by USA Rasmuson Fellow Dario Robleto. Read more
  • Bamuthi looking cool in a black and white photo.
    by Marc
    Bamuthi Joseph
    Guest contributor- Poet- USA Fellow-Dancer-Director of Performing Arts at YBCA-Teacher-Curator. Hybridist. Read more

    I am a seeker.
  • Pool in the desert under a desert night sky.
    an earthwork
    you can swim in
    An interview with Benjamin Ball, USA Target Fellow
    Read more

  • Zoe Strauss
    For ten years, photographer and USA Gund Fellow Zoe Strauss exhibited her work under Interstate-95 in South Philadelphia. Her photographs create an epic narrative and reflect the beauty and struggle of everyday life in invisible communities. SEE QUICKTAKES
    child doing flip on a stack of mattresses

    Photo © Zoe Strauss

  • Announcing
    50 New Legends
    America’s Finest Artists:
    The 2011 USA Fellows
    The 50 new USA Fellows were honored at the beautiful Broad Stage in Santa Monica, California in December. Read more
  • Artist Daniel Joseph Martinez traveled the entire 800-mile length of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, from Valdez to Deadhorse, during his residency with the Anchorage Museum for Alaska AIR (Artists-in-Residence). Read more
    “Leaving for the
      the Top of the World”