News
Studio Museum in Harlem Receives $10M From Ford Foundation
The gift will permanently endow the New York institution’s director and chief curator role, held by Thelma Golden for nearly two decades.
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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker Named President of National Gallery of Art
Walker has been credited with developing a major art acquisition fund for the DC museum, where he has been a trustee since 2019.
Opinion
Arts Grantmakers Must Change Their Ways
The nonprofit industrial complex in the US has failed artists. Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Lane Harwell of the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team suggest nine ways to change that.
News
American Museums Get $5M for Latinx Curatorial Positions
The initiative is funded by four of the country’s largest grantmakers.
News
15 Latinx Artist Fellows Receive $50K Grants
Tanya Aguiñiga, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Vincent Valdez are among the recipients of this year’s grants, funded by the Ford and Mellon Foundations.
News
Docs About Jamaica Kincaid, Confederate Monuments, Repatriation and More Receive Over $20M from Ford Foundation
In the past year, 122 organizations and filmmakers received funding from JustFilms for projects that are expanding the realm of perspectives from which stories are told.
News
A $6M Program Will Support POC-led Arts Organizations in the South
Eligible arts organizations can apply for funding provided by the Ford Foundation and Atlanta-based nonprofit South Arts.
News
Ford Foundation Invests $50M in the Power That Art and Narrative Can Change Ideas
Several members of the 2021 cohort identify as artists and storytellers, utilizing the power that art and narrative have on changing ideas of power.
News
$5M Grant Will Extend Disability Futures Initiative Through 2025
The inaugural Disability Futures Fellows include Carolyn Lazard, Christine Sun Kim, and Tourmaline.
Art
The Dire Need for a Decentralized News Media
Moving toward smaller-scale organizations would help engage younger audiences left out by the companies that preside over 90% of what’s on-air and online.
Art
How Journalists Can Use Their Reporting to Support Marginalized People
Disability rights activist Emily Ladau explains "supported storytelling."
Art
We Need New Institutions, Not New Art
Coco Fusco writes on why “equity won’t be achieved by a new biennial, another emerging artist of color survey, or a record auction sale by a Black artist.”