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An Artist's Grant That Even Pays for Glasses
By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: October 10, 2007
The New York Times
Nearly a year ago 50 people around the country each received $50,000 fellowship awards from United States Artists, a new organization that argues that individual artists are generally shortchanged when it comes to arts patronage in America.
For more than 80 percent of the fellows, the money helped jump-start a new project. But interviews with the artists and a survey by the organization show that many used at least part of the funds left after taxes (yes, the gifts are taxed as ordinary income) simply to make ends meet or to pay for long-delayed health care.
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New Charity to Start Plan for $50,000 Artists’ Grants
By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: September 5, 2006
New York Times
A new charity, United States Artists, will announce today an ambitious plan to provide support to working artists, starting with a grant program that will be one of the most generous in existence.
Fifty artists working in a wide variety of disciplines and at various career stages will receive $50,000 each, no strings attached. The first recipients will be announced on Dec. 4.
“The individual artist has been at the back of the line in terms of support in American funding over the last decade, so any new system designed to get support directly into the hand of working artists is important,” said Philip Bither, performing arts curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Panels of artists, critics, scholars and others in the arts are reviewing the applications of 300 artists who were nominated by 150 anonymous arts leaders around the country.
United States Artists declined to reveal any of the applicants’ names but said they range from an American Indian weaver who earns her living demonstrating her craft on the cruise ships that ply the Alaska coast to a Chinese-American photographer working in Minneapolis to a mariachi bandleader from Los Angeles.
“No one is a household name,” said Katharine DeShaw, the group’s executive director. “We want these awards to demonstrate the diversity of American art and the artists who create it.”
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Art for our sake
Editorial
Published: September 25, 2006
The Boston Globe
WHAT MAKES great art possible? Among other things, rent money and groceries. So it's good news that a new foundation, United States Artists, will start making annual awards of $50,000 directly to artists across the country.
Only a year old, the foundation has a grand plan to make an aesthetic and economic contribution over the next century. It's a worthy stand for the future of American culture and civilization that backs up talk with money.
The awards, called USA Fellowships, are a nod of respect and recognition that "starving" and "no health insurance" need not be the subtext of artists' resumes.
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“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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