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SUMMARY:ANNOUNCING THE VERDANT FUND
DESCRIPTION:\nALABAMA ARTS ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVE $60\,000 FROM THE WARHOL 
 FOUNDATION TO DISTRIBUTE EMERGENCY RELIEF GRANTS\nOctober 15\, 2020\n\nTh
 e Verdant Fund\, a collaborative effort of Alabama Contemporary Art Center
  (Mobile)\, Coleman Center for the Arts (York)\, and Space One Eleven (Bir
 mingham) in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art
 s\, will distribute $60\,000 in emergency grants to Alabama artists affect
 ed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund\, initiated in response to the healt
 h and financial crisis\, will disperse sixty grants of $1\,000 each to vis
 ual or multidisciplinary artists currently residing in the state of Alabam
 a. \n\nAn expansion of the Warhol Foundation’s Regional Re-granting pro
 gram\, the Verdant Fund supports creative practice born of and within Alab
 ama. The Verdant Fund’s goal is to reach a broad range of artists across
  all geographic areas of the state to provide monetary resources to artist
 s\, aid in artist retention in the state\, and deepen the network among pe
 ople in creative practice.\n\nEmergency relief grants are for independent\
 , professional\, visual artists who make some or all of their living from 
 their art practice and who have lost income as a result of the COVID-19 pa
 ndemic. The grants are intended to pay for essentials like groceries\, ren
 t\, childcare\, and medicine.\n\nApplications are open from October 1\, 20
 20\, through October 30\, 2020. Applications are only accepted online. htt
 ps://verdantfund.org/emergency-grants\n\nAfter the initial emergency perio
 d\, the Verdant Fund will pivot to project-based grants in 2021. It will f
 ocus its support on public-facing projects that complicate and expand narr
 atives of creative practice born of and within Alabama and bolster contemp
 orary art practice in its region. \n\nVerdant Fund joins a 16-organizatio
 n expansion of the Warhol Foundation’s Regional Re-granting program. In 
 addition to money for grants\, programs receive significant funding for ad
 ministration and outreach. Established in 2007\, the Regional Re-granting 
 Program has awarded $6.4 million in grants to organizations\, which has re
 sulted in $3.6 million in direct support of 848 artist projects as of 2018
 .\n\nABOUT THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: In accordance w
 ith Andy Warhol’s will\, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for t
 he Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The Foundation manag
 es an innovative and flexible grants program while also preserving Warhol
 ’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extens
 ive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date\,
  the Foundation has given over $200 million in cash grants to over 1\,000 
 arts organizations in 49 states and abroad and has donated 52\,786 works o
 f art to 322 institutions worldwide.\n\nFor more information: (251) 208-56
 60 / info@verdantfund.org / verduntfund.org\n\n###\n\n\n
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