Grant Program

Art Matters considers applications by invitation only. Through our current program, Art Matters provides 7,500 USD fellowships to individual artists and collective teams working in contemporary art and performance. Priority is given to artists working with social issues and experimenting with form.

Our funds can be used for any and all aspects of artistic practice – from early research and development of ideas, to travel costs, to production and presentation expenses, to day-to-day material or space needs.

Viewing names beginning with: “c”

Name	Year	Description	Keywords
Art Com/La Mamelle	1987	Organizational support.
Bridge Center for Contemporary Art	1989	Organizational support.
David Cabrera	1992	Fellowship.
Mark Calderon	1994	Fellowship.
Jane Callister	2009	Support for travel to the Isle of Man to collaborate with Manx historian, documentary filmmaker and sound engineer Charles Guard on the installation Found in Translation.	Travel
Jonathan Calm	2008	Support for travel to France to investigate and document social housing complexes in the suburbs of Paris and Marseilles, the epicenter of the Fall 2005 race riots. Part of a body of work that examines the idealism and reality of public housing.	Travel
Jibz Cameron	2020	Fellowship.
Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag	2020	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Performance, Photography
David Cannon	1992	Fellowship.
Paco Cao	2015	Support for ongoing work.	Film & Video, Installation, Painting/Drawing, Performance, Photography, Research, Travel
Janet Carkeek	1987	Fellowship.
Alex Carlin	1997	Fellowship.
Juan Carlos	1993	Fellowship.
Ann Carlson	1993 , 1987	Fellowship.
Ron Carpenter	1990	Fellowship.
Alan Carrier	1994	Fellowship.
Fred Carter	1988	Fellowship.
Larry Carty	1990	Fellowship.
Josely Carvalho	1992	Fellowship.
Paul Castrucci	1992	Fellowship.
Andrew Castrucci	1988	Fellowship.
Joe Catalano	1990	Fellowship.
Carolina Caycedo	2014	Support for Be Dammed, an art/activism project about the effects of dam construction on the natural and social landscapes of the Americas.	Film & Video, Performance, Research, Travel
Carolina Caycedo	2020	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Installation, Performance, Research
Carolina Caycedo	2020	Fellowship.
Centro Cultural de la Raza	1992	Fellowship.
Alejandro Cesarco	2009	Support for travel to Montevideo, Uruguay to create a film portrait of the artist’s 94 year-old grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.	Film & Video, Travel
Mark Chamberlain	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Dail Chambers	2021	Fellowship.
Patty Chang	2019	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Installation, Performance, Photography, Research
Patty Chang	2019	Relevant Links:Bodies of Water, 2017 Neimanis, Astridahttps://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/bodies-of-water-posthuman-feminist-phenomenology/
Linda Chapman	1993	Fellowship.
John Chapman	1992	Fellowship.
Nicole Charbonnet	1994	Fellowship.
Michael Ray Charles	1994	Fellowship.
Anthony Chase	1992 , 1987	Fellowship.
John Chatmas	1990	Fellowship.
Juan William Chavez	2021	Fellowship.
Shu Lea Cheang	1986	Fellowship.
Che Chen	2012	Support for research in Mauritania into Haratine and Beydane contemporary music culture. Image: Che Chen, Island Cultures: Chott-El-Jerrid, Tunisia. Courtesy of the artist.
Nicole Cherubini	2008	Support for travel to Guadalajara, Mexico to research the production of traditional ceramic wares leading to an exhibition examining function and aesthetics.	Travel
Frank Chi	2016	Support for a new short film that remixes imagery from the women's suffrage movement.	Film & Video
Abigail Child	1990	Fellowship.
Mel Chin	2007	Support for the Fundred project in New Orleans.	Travel
Mel Chin	2021	Fellowship.
Mel Chin	1990	Fellowship.
Laura Chipley	2011	Support for travel to Ecuador to document the ongoing effects of oil contamination perpetrated by Texaco in the Amazon from 1964-1990 towards the series of experimental videos Deep Black Sea.	Film & Video, Travel
Jim Chiros	1989	Fellowship.
Michael Cho	1993	Fellowship.
Diana Sun-Yun Cho	1993	Fellowship.
John Christensen	1994	Fellowship.
Ken Chu	1992	Fellowship.
Ken Chu	1996 , 1995 , 1990	Fellowship.
Annie Chu	1990	Fellowship.
Tiffany Chung	2022	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Installation, Painting / Drawing, Photography, Research, Sculpture, Transdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary, Multimedia
Tiffany Chung	2010	Support for a collaborative performance/video project by the Vietnam-based artist and Tokyo-based art collective Nibrol involving youth culture in Vietnam and Japan.
Andrea Chung	2014	Support for ongoing work.	Installation, Research
Juan William Chávez	2011	Support for travel and research in Spain, England and France towards a photo/video project exploring the partnership between humans and bees.	Travel
Laurie Beth Clark	1988	Fellowship.
Sonya Clark	2021	Fellowship.
Sonya Clark	2011	Support for travel and research in Jamaica, Ghana and the UK towards the project Black Hair and Tilled Land: Combing through Canerows, exploring the history of sugarcane and Afro-Caribbean hairstyles named for the Triangle Trade cash crop.	Travel
Robert Clarke	1994	Fellowship.
Lenka Clayton	2018	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Installation, Performance, Photography, Research, Sculpture
Catlin Cobb	1988	Fellowship.
James Cobb	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Malcolm Cochran	1992	Fellowship.
Melissa Cody	2019	Fellowship.
Melissa Cody	2019	Fellowship.	Installation, Sculpture
Cog•nate Collective	2015	Expansion of Mobile Agora Project (MAP) to two other border sites, Sobreruedas Otay in Tijuana and the South Bay Swap Meet in San Diego.	Performance, Research, Travel
Scott Cohen	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Debby Lee Cohen	1990	Fellowship.
Tony Cokes	1988	Fellowship.
Tameca Cole	2020	Fellowship.	Painting/Drawing, Multimedia
Frank Cole	1992	Fellowship.
Binda Colebrook	1994	Fellowship.
Donna Coleman	1994 , 1992	Fellowship.
Johnny Coleman	1992	Fellowship.
Papo Colo	1987	Fellowship.
Paul Colucci	1988	Fellowship.
Robbie Conal	1990	Fellowship.
Merry Conway	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Merry Conway	1993	Fellowship.
Brett Cook	1992	Fellowship.
Brett Cook-Dizney	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Ben Coonley	2010	Support for travel to Hong Kong for the creation of a video docu-drama involving an x-phi study that examined whether different cultures tend to be moral absolutists or moral relativists.	Travel
William Cordova	2009	Support for travel to Peru, Uruguay, and 35 US states to document certain forgotten historical landmarks associated with radical community activist groups from the 1500s to the 1960s.	Travel
Harry Cosme	1987	Fellowship.
Keith Cottingham	1994	Fellowship.
Jane Cottis	1993	Fellowship.
Julia Couzens	1994	Fellowship.
Ellie Covan/Dixon Place	1990	Fellowship.
Eileen Cowin	1993	Fellowship.
Erin Cramer	1992 , 1988	Fellowship.
Margaret Crane	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Bruce Crastley	1992	Fellowship.
Alonzo Crawford	1990	Fellowship.
Althea Crawford	1988	Fellowship.
Bale Creek	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Crenshaw Dairy Mart	2020	Relief grant for mutual-aid support.	Film & Video, Installation, Painting/Drawing, Performance, Photography, Research, Travel, Printmaking, Sculpture, Transdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary, Multimedia
Jay Critchley	1990	Fellowship.
James Croak	1988	Fellowship.
Patricia Cronin	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Juan Cruz	1992	Fellowship.
Tony Cruz Pabón	2019	Fellowship.	Installation, Painting/Drawing, Sculpture
Tony Cruz Pabón	2011	Support for travel to Panama and Spain to research religious festivities centered around two black mystical figures, as part of an ongoing project involving musicians Ismael “Maelo” Rivera and Pau Casals. Image: Tony Cruz, Sin Titulo #1. Courtesy of the artist.	Travel
Tony Cruz Pabón	2019	Relevant Links:Las caras lindas. Live performance of Ismael (Maelo) Rivera. lyrics by Tite Curet Alonzo. late 70'shttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ismael+Rivera+-+La+Caras+Lindas+(Vivo)Aguanile. Live performance by Willie Colón and Hector Lavoe. early 70'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwHUTtuHhE
Patrisse Cullors	2019	Relevant Links:Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davishttps://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.htmlAbolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And Accountability by Patrisse Cullorshttps://harvardlawreview.org/2019/04/abolition-and-reparations-histories-of-resistance-transformative-justice-and-accountability/
Headlands Center for the Arts	1988 , 1987 , 1986	Organizational support.
Jellyfish Colectivo y Los Dos	2016	Support for a collaborative traveling street art initiative along the US/Mexico border from El Paso to Los Angeles.	Installation, Painting / Drawing, Research, Travel
Lehman College Art Gallery	1987	Organizational support.
NPN/Colorado	1985	Organizational support.
Otabenga Jones and Associates	2016	Support for the creation of an education and activity packet for the youth of Houston's historic Third Ward neighborhood.	Installation, Performance, Research
Portland Center for Visual Arts	1985	Organizational support.
Present Company	1989	Organizational support.
william cordova	2020	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Installation, Painting/Drawing, Performance, Photography, Research, Travel, Printmaking, Sculpture, Transdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary, Multimedia

Grant Program

Viewing names beginning with: “c”

Art Com/La Mamelle

1987

Bridge Center for Contemporary Art

1989

David Cabrera

1992

Mark Calderon

1994

Jane Callister

2009

Jonathan Calm

2008

Jibz Cameron

2020

Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag

2020

David Cannon

1992

Paco Cao

2015

Janet Carkeek

1987

Alex Carlin

1997

Juan Carlos

1993

Ann Carlson

1993

1987

Ron Carpenter

1990

Alan Carrier

1994

Fred Carter

1988

Larry Carty

1990

Josely Carvalho

1992

Paul Castrucci

1992

Andrew Castrucci

1988

Joe Catalano

1990

Carolina Caycedo

2014

Carolina Caycedo

2020

Carolina Caycedo

2020

Centro Cultural de la Raza

1992

Alejandro Cesarco

2009

Mark Chamberlain

1996

1995

Dail Chambers

2021

Patty Chang

2019

Patty Chang

2019

Linda Chapman

1993

John Chapman

1992

Nicole Charbonnet

1994

Michael Ray Charles

1994

Anthony Chase

1992

1987

John Chatmas

1990

Juan William Chavez