Founders - United States Artists

Founders

In an act of unprecedented private investment in individual artists and the creative potential of America, USA launched in September 2005 with $20 million in seed funding provided by a coalition of four leading foundations—Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential, and Rasmuson. Their initial investment enables our organization to pilot the USA Fellows program, awarding unrestricted $50,000 grants to 50 artists each year.

USA Fellow Story:Beth Ann Fennelly

There is a poet in Oxford, Mississippi, who passes the living ghost of Faulkner on her way to the classroom where she teaches, the bedroom where she writes, the park where she pushes her daughter and son on swings. She notices everything.

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Ernest and Irma Rose Foundation

“With USA, the perspective is that you are not investing in art you want to own. You are investing in the creative spirit—the courage and passion required to become one of the finest artists in America.”

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