Foundation for Contemporary Arts
David Watson, wearing a gray work jumpsuit and a baseball cap, plays the bagpipes indoors. He stands in front of a large industrial-style window with a weathered wall visible in the background, holding the bagpipes under his arm.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded almost $29 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,500 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

David Watson, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still of RESTOS at Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, Colombia, 2021. Choreography by Moriah Evans. Photo by Andres Trujillo.

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David Watson, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still of RESTOS at Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, Colombia, 2021. Choreography by Moriah Evans. Photo by Andres Trujillo.

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A vibrant watercolor and pencil triptych depicts a room filled with balloon-shaped patterns which contain fantastical creatures and microorganisms set against a dark background. In the center panel, a bird-like figure wearing a crown of vines stands atop a transparent dome filled with additional colorful microorganisms. The organisms throughout the work are highlighted in gold and appear in movement.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded almost $29 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,500 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Fi Jae Li, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Egg of Ego, 2018, ink, watercolor, color pencil, Korean gold pigment, acrylic on Korean paper, 75.4” x 153.3". Photo by Hexagon.

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Fi Jae Li, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Egg of Ego, 2018, ink, watercolor, color pencil, Korean gold pigment, acrylic on Korean paper, 75.4” x 153.3". Photo by Hexagon.

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Dorian Wood stands at a microphone in front of a projected purple-and-white image of a person with a long lock of hair covering their eyes. She wears a green and white patterned long sleeved dress and is illuminated by soft purple light.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded almost $29 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,500 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Dorian Wood, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still from Musa Cerdota at Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2024. Photo by Juan Peiró.

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Dorian Wood, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still from Musa Cerdota at Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2024. Photo by Juan Peiró.

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Shayla-Vie Jenkins kneels on a beach in a neon green outfit, pressing her fists into the ground as she extends her legs sideways. The sky is overcast and, in the background, additional performers dressed in similar neon green outfits crawl across the sand. Beachgoers are seen in the distance walking along the shoreline.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded almost $29 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,500 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Shayla-Vie Jenkins, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still from REPOSE at Beach Sessions, Rockaway Beach, New York, 2021. Choreographed by Moriah Evans. Performed by Shayla-Vie Jenkins. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Shayla-Vie Jenkins, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still from REPOSE at Beach Sessions, Rockaway Beach, New York, 2021. Choreographed by Moriah Evans. Performed by Shayla-Vie Jenkins. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Since 1963, FCA has awarded almost $29 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,500 grants.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded almost $29 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,500 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Performance still from Deepe Darknesse at The Collapsable Hole, New York, 2023. Performed by Lena Engelstein and Lisa Fagan, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipients, and Hannah Mitchell. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Performance still from Deepe Darknesse at The Collapsable Hole, New York, 2023. Performed by Lena Engelstein and Lisa Fagan, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipients, and Hannah Mitchell. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Jennifer Harge performs a dynamic movement in an outdoor space with tall, ivy-covered walls and arched windows. She wears a white long-sleeved garment and lace-up boots, mid-step with one arm extended upward and her body leaning forward. In the background, an audience watches attentively in the sunlit venue with gravel flooring.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded almost $29 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,500 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Jennifer Harge, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still from there are many ways to make a clearing presented by The Black Repertory at Spring Church, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MI, 2023. Music: Kurt Carr and the Kurt Carr Singers, The Clark Sisters, Tamela Mann, and Twinkie Clark. Photography by Virginia Harold © Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

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Jennifer Harge, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still from there are many ways to make a clearing presented by The Black Repertory at Spring Church, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MI, 2023. Music: Kurt Carr and the Kurt Carr Singers, The Clark Sisters, Tamela Mann, and Twinkie Clark. Photography by Virginia Harold © Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

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Ebony Webster, Jude Evans, and Fletcher Laws are in a shallow stream surrounded by lush greenery. One performer lies in the water with their eyes closed, while the other two stand to their side. The downstream performer holds a bunch of flowers and foliage over the person lying in the stream, and the upstream performer gently places a hand on their forehead. All three wear white outfits.
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Since 1963, FCA has awarded almost $29 million to artists and arts organizations through over 7,500 grants.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2025 Grants to Artists Awards

Ebony Noelle Golden, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still from 79 Moons: a visual poem at Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA, 2022. Performed by Ebony Webster, Jude Evans, Fletcher Laws, Karma Mayet Johnson, and Brittany Grier. Photo by Bleu Santiago.

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Ebony Noelle Golden, 2025 Grants to Artists Recipient. Performance still from 79 Moons: a visual poem at Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA, 2022. Performed by Ebony Webster, Jude Evans, Fletcher Laws, Karma Mayet Johnson, and Brittany Grier. Photo by Bleu Santiago.

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Our Mission

FCA encourages, sponsors, and promotes innovative work in the arts

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23 artists working in 5 disciplines

Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein are photographed intertwined against a black background. Lisa is positioned in the back, her head tilted to the left with her arms around Lena’s torso. Lena is in the foreground, seated and gazing to the left, with her arms embracing Lisa’s legs. Lisa is wearing all black, while Lena is in a white tank top and pink shorts.
Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein
Grants to Artists
Dance
A black and white portrait of Jon Kinzel, who is centered and staring straight at the camera. Against a dark background, he is in high contrast, wearing a light plaid shirt.
Jon Kinzel
Grants to Artists
Dance
Alex Tatarsky stares at the camera, using their hands to pull their mouth into a smile. They wear bright red lipstick, a black cap, a feathered top and a green coat. They stand against a red fabric background under bright lighting.
Alex Tatarsky
Grants to Artists
Performance Art/Theater
Khadijah Queen gazes at the camera, her body turned to the right, her hair blows with the wind. She wears pointed glasses, bright jewelry, and a navy blouse, and appears in front of a blurred background with greenery.
Khadijah Queen
Cy Twombly Award for Poetry
Poetry
Shayla-Vie Jenkins is smiling against a black background with her hands raised in front of her body and clasped together. She is wearing a dark top under soft, neutral lighting.
Shayla-Vie Jenkins
Viola Farber Award
Dance
A close up, black and white portrait of David Watson. His face is turned away from the camera and he looks up and to the right, illuminated by an overhead light. He wears a grey T-shirt against a black background.
David Watson
Alvin Lucier Award for Music
Music/Sound
Javier Cardona Otero looks directly at the camera with his head tilted slightly. He is standing indoors against a softly lit background, and wearing round brown glasses and a white textured shirt.
Javier Cardona Otero
Robert Rauschenberg Award
Performance Art/Theater
Fi Jae Lee stands before a slightly blurred brick background under bright lighting. She smiles, facing the camera with her body angled slightly to the right. She wears a black long-sleeve shirt with her hands at her sides.
Fi Jae Lee
Dorothea Tanning Award
Visual Arts
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FCA announces a new Creative Research Grants program distributing $300,000 to an inaugural cohort of 30 experimental artists and collectives

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FCA announces a new Creative Research Grants program distributing $300,000 to an inaugural cohort of 30 experimental artists and collectives

Kameron Neal and Paul Pinto, Whiteness: Part One, produced by CultureHub & presented at La Mama, New York, New York, 2021. Photo by Mattie BB.

FCA: Artists for Artists
About FCA

FCA: Artists for Artists

In 1962 Jasper Johns, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and other painters and sculptors came together to help Merce Cunningham and his dance company finance a proposed season on Broadway by arranging for a sale of their artworks. Their fund-raising efforts were so successful that there was money to spare, and when they asked Cunningham what he thought they should do with it, he replied, “We’re all in the same boat—why don’t you give it to other performing artists?” Thus in 1963 Jasper Johns and John Cage established the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts based on the belief that visual artists—painters and sculptors—were sufficiently concerned about the state of the performance arts—dance, theater, and music—enough so to donate artwork to benefit performing artists. 

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Grant Impact

"The grant gave me the time and the freedom to focus on my work in a way not tied up to productivity, pressure, or economic institutions per se, which must be the best gift any artist can receive."

— Fia Backström, visual artist
2010 grantee | Visual Arts

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John Baldessari: Double Bill (Part 2), John Baldessari, 2012
John Baldessari
"John Baldessari: Double Bill (Part 2)"
Lily Scent, Robert Rauschenberg, 1981
Robert Rauschenberg
"Lily Scent"
Untitled, 1988, Keith Haring, Date unknown
Keith Haring
"Untitled, 1988"
Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Target with Four Faces), Jasper Johns, 1968
Jasper Johns
"Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Target with Four Faces)"

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