Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative just announced their 2011 grantees. Nice to see the grants to alternative spaces and organizations–Marginal Utility, Megawords, Vox Populi, Asian Arts Initiative, Slought (in addition to awards to some of our favorite local big guys — ICA, PMA, the Fab Workshop and Philagrafika)! $874,900 were handed out to nine recipients — five for exhibitions and four for planning. Since 1997, PEI has awarded 112 grants for a total of $11 million to bring excellent visual arts programming to the area — and to help foster excellent local programming. Here’s a link to the press release for full information about Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. Links below go to PEI’s project page for each recipient — check out the projects, some are pretty neat. Congratulations, all!
2011 PEI Grants Awarded
Asian Arts Initiative
Social Practice Lab Series
$25,000
Dan Murphy / Anthony Smyrski (aka Megawords)
Mobile Publication Studio
$5,000
David Dempewolf / Yuka Yokoyama (aka Marginal Utility)
Chronicles of Dissent
$24,900
Institute of Contemporary Art
Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show
$250,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years (working title)
$250,000
Philagrafika
Doing Time
$80,000
Slought Foundation
Mixplace Studio
$25,000
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Artistic Residency with Sarah Sze
$195,000
Vox Populi
Self-organized spaces on their own terms (Title TBD)
$20,000
