ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF NEW GRANT PROGRAM

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the inaugural recipients of its Artistic Innovation and Collaboration grant program, allocating a total of eight hundred thousand dollars to nine arts organizations. In 2011, the foundation launched the grant program as a way to promote the values advanced by Rauschenberg over his lifetime and invited sixty-five arts organizations to apply.

“This grant program is rooted in the defining characteristics of Bob’s legacy—fearlessness, innovative practice, cross-disciplinary exploration, and collaboration among artists—and supports new work in a time when funding artistic experimentation is receding. We are delighted to be able to support projects that are pushing the boundaries of artistic practice and helping artists and cultural organizations investigate new territory,” said Christy MacLear, executive director of the foundation.

Recipients of the 2012 grants include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Drawing Center, Ballroom Marfa, Heart of Los Angeles, Machine Project, Mary Miss/City as Living Laboratory, North Dakota Museum of Art, Space One Eleven, and STREB.