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: “w”

Name	Year	Description	Keywords
Complex Movements	2016	Support for the collective’s ongoing multi-media performance and installation work engaging community-led social justice movements in Detroit and beyond.	Film & Video, Installation, Performance, Research
Diverse Works	1988	Organizational support.
Jamaica Arts Center	1990	Organizational support.
Red Wing Performing Group, Inc.	1987	Organizational support.
The Wooster Group	1989 , 1988 , 1987 , 1986 , 1985	Organizational support.
Stacy Lynn Waddell	2012	Support for ongoing work.
Aaron Wade	1994	Fellowship.
Jearnine Wagner	1985	Fellowship.
Jon Wagner	1990	Fellowship.
Rory Wakemup	2018	Fellowship.	Installation, Performance, Printmaking, Sculpture
Judith Walgren	2016	Support for photographic and video work towards an alternate curriculum challenging existing K-5th grade California Mission studies.	Film & Video, Photography, Research, Travel
J. Michael Walker	1990	Fellowship.
Kara Walker	1994	Fellowship.
Johnny Walker	1993	Fellowship.
Brian Walker II	2022	Fellowship.
Michael Wallin	1990	Fellowship.
Four Walls	1992	Fellowship.
Frank Waln	2019	Relevant Links:"Čhaŋkpé Ópi Owíčhakte Wičhúŋkiksuyapi (We Remember the Wounded Knee Massacre)" by Frank Waln (2020). This is an essay I wrote for the School Library Journal discussing historical trauma and how the US education system erases Indigenous history.https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=wounded-knee-massacre-lakota-130-anniversary-frank-waln
Frank Waln	2019	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Performance
Anne Walsh	2008	Support for an adapted film version of Leonora Carringtons comic novel The Hearing Trumpet, set and shot in present-day Mexico.
Anne Walsh	1994	Fellowship.
Mike Walsh	1993	Fellowship.
Dietmar Walther	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Hong-Kai Wang	2009	Support for the project Watching Dust, in which excerpts from Robert Ashley’s opera Dust are performed for “comfort women” survivors at the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation in Taiwan.
Mercedes Wanguemert-Pena	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Micki Wantanabe	1994	Fellowship.
Allison Akootchook Warden	2022	Fellowship.
Allison Warden	2015	Support for ongoing work.	Film & Video, Research, Travel
Shelley Warren	1988	Fellowship.
Michael Warrick	1987	Fellowship.
Marie Watt	2015	Support for ongoing work.	Installation, Painting/Drawing
Patrick Webb	1992	Fellowship.
Tenesh Webber	1990	Fellowship.
Marshall Weber	1992	Fellowship.
Frederic Weber	1993	Fellowship.
Jeff Webster	1993	Fellowship.
Meg Webster	1986	Fellowship.
Lee Webster	2013	Support for ongoing work.	Film & Video, Performance
Carrie Mae Weems	1989	Fellowship.
Penelope Wehrli	1987	Fellowship.
Brian Weil	1990 , 1986	Fellowship.
Grahame Weinbren	1990	Fellowship.
Harvey Weiss	1994	Fellowship.
Brian Weit	1988	Fellowship.
Jerry Wellman	1990	Fellowship.
John Wentworth	1988	Fellowship.
Judi Werthein	2010	Support for a film project on Eva Perón working with the original French theater script “Eva Perón” by Copi to explore myth, identity, and translation.
Annie West	1993	Fellowship.
Jerry R. West	1986	Fellowship.
Barbara Westermann	1988	Fellowship.
Susan Wexler	1987	Fellowship.
Stephen Whisler	1990	Fellowship.
Sara Whiteley	1989	Fellowship.
Susan Whyne	1993	Fellowship.
Cosmo Whyte	2019	Fellowship.
Cosmo Whyte	2019	Fellowship.	Installation, Painting/Drawing, Performance, Sculpture
Ed Wicklander	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Allison Wiese	2007	Support for ongoing work and travel to Mexico City.	Travel
T.J. Wilcox	1997	Fellowship.
Faith Wilding	2015	Travel to Paraguay, where the artist was born, to research and record ecological destruction due to GMO mono-crops.	Film & Video, Installation, Painting/Drawing, Performance, Research, Travel
Fletcher Williams	2015	Support for ongoing work.	Installation, Painting/Drawing
Marco Williams	1990	Fellowship.
Casey Williams	1993	Fellowship.
Megan Williams	1992	Fellowship.
Lorna Williams	2017	Fellowship.	Installation
Pauline Willis	1989	Fellowship.
Tassiana Willis	2022	Fellowship.
Fred Wilson	1990	Fellowship.
David Wilson	1992 , 1990	Fellowship.
Will Wilson	2012	Support for Towards a Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, a project inviting indigenous artists, arts professionals, and tribal governance to engage in the performative ritual that is the studio portrait.
Millie Wilson	1990	Fellowship.
Joseph Wilson	1994	Fellowship.
Neil Winokur	1988 , 1986	Fellowship.
Joel Peter Witkin	1986	Fellowship.
Krzysztof Wodiczko	1988	Fellowship.
Jenifer Wofford	2007	Galleon Trade is an exhibition in Manila, Philippines of artists with ties to the Philippines, Mexico, and California seeking to create new routes of cultural exchange along the old historic Acapulco-Manila route of commerce and trade.	Travel
David Wojnarowicz	1991 , 1990	Fellowship.
Kevin Wolff	1992	Fellowship.
Spectre Woman	1986	Fellowship.
Janet Wondra	1994	Fellowship.
Kristina Wong	2020	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Performance, Transdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary
Kristina Wong	2020	Fellowship.
Anthony Wong	1988	Fellowship.
Rosten Woo	2015	Support for ongoing work.	Film & Video, Installation, Photography, Research, Travel
Dorian Wood	2020	Fellowship.
Dorian Wood	2020	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Installation, Painting/Drawing, Performance, Transdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary, Multimedia
Lauren Woods	2015	Support for ongoing work.	Film & Video, Installation, Research
Reginald Woolery	1992	Fellowship.
Saya Woolfalk	2007	Support for travel to Japan to participate in the Takayama Festival at the Hida Folk Village in Gifu and research folkloric performance practices toward the creation of a new performance. Image: Courtesy of the artist.	Performance, Travel
Boyd Wright	1985	Fellowship.
Geo Wyeth	2012	Support to document a series of site-specific, research-driven performances in rural South Carolina and Alabama as part of an ongoing performance project Haunts.
Nancy Wyllie	1990	Fellowship.
Kanako Wynkoop	2014	Support for an experimental, multidisciplinary documentary focusing on tensions between people who are unhoused and the relatively privileged in Olympia.	Film & Video, Installation, Performance

Grant Program

Viewing names beginning with: “w”

Complex Movements

2016

Diverse Works

1988

Jamaica Arts Center

1990

Red Wing Performing Group, Inc.

1987

The Wooster Group

1989

1988

1987

1986

1985

Stacy Lynn Waddell

2012

Aaron Wade

1994

Jearnine Wagner

1985

Jon Wagner

1990

Rory Wakemup

2018

Judith Walgren

2016

J. Michael Walker

1990

Kara Walker

1994

Johnny Walker

1993

Brian Walker II

2022

Michael Wallin

1990

Four Walls

1992

Frank Waln

2019

Frank Waln

2019

Anne Walsh

2008

Anne Walsh

1994

Mike Walsh

1993

Dietmar Walther

1996

1995

Hong-Kai Wang

2009

Mercedes Wanguemert-Pena

1996

1995

Micki Wantanabe

1994

Allison Akootchook Warden

2022

Allison Warden

2015

Shelley Warren

1988

Michael Warrick

1987

Marie Watt

2015

Patrick Webb

1992

Tenesh Webber

1990

Marshall Weber

1992

Frederic Weber

1993

Jeff Webster

1993