Over $60,000 in Grants Awarded to Alabama Artists per Year by the Verdant Fund
The Verdant Fund is a collaborative effort of Alabama Contemporary Art Center (Mobile), Coleman Center for the Arts (York), and Space One Eleven (Birmingham), established as a partner in the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program in 2019. The Regional Regranting Program was established in 2007 to recognize and support the movement of independently organized, public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional art scenes but that lies beyond the reach of traditional funding sources. The program is administered by non-profit visual art centers across the United States that work in partnership with the Foundation to fund artists’ experimental projects and collaborative undertakings.
Each year, $60,000 in grants (averaging $7,000 per artist) are distributed to Alabama artists creating and presenting outward-facing, community-based projects. Each project is tracked and documented over the course of the year. Project updates are posted on the VerdantFund.org website and social media.
2025 Grantees
Senior Prom: Reimagined
Carolyn Sherer
G.R.O.W.T.H.: A Publication on Wellness & Resilience in the African American Community
Latasha Hyatt
Left Behind Podcast
Charlie Mato-Toyela
Empowering through Laughter: A Community Comedy Series for LGBTQIA2+ and Minority Voices
Shenanigans Comedy Theatre
Banell Ballet
Zoey Banell
TransVoice
Tosha Gaines
Show Me the Line
Kelsey Iannuzzi
A Million Views
Brandin Stallworth
Labor Without Borders
Misha Hadar
For an overview of past awardees and more information
Questions?
Email info@verdantfund.org
ABOUT THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The Foundation manages an innovative and flexible grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the Foundation has given over $260 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations in 49 states and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.