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Posted on | November 11, 2008 | No Comments
Harryette Mullen, left, and Tayari Jones
I had never heard of this award, but Tayari Jones and Harryette Mullen received it this year (check out the photos on Tayari’s Flickr page), and Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, and Thomas Allen Harris before (to name some favorites).Check it out–it’s an impressive list of recipients in the last three years.
We Are United States Artists
United States Artists (USA) is a grant-making, artist-advocacy organization dedicated to supporting America’s finest artists working across diverse disciplines. After decades of dwindling public support, at USA, artists now have a home where they may find significant private funding-unrestricted cash grants-to ignite the creativity that makes this country great.
In an act of unprecedented private investment in individual artists and the creative potential of America, USA launched in September 2005 with $20 million in seed funding provided by a coalition of leading foundations-Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential, and Rasmuson. This initial investment enables our organization to pilot the USA Fellows program, awarding unrestricted $50,000 grants to fifty artists each year. Distributing significant grants to our nation’s best artists quickly, efficiently, and with minimal expense is our top priority.
USA’s long-term vision is to create an organization dedicated to the unlimited promise of our finest artists. Our horizon line is not three, five, or 25 years, but rather 100 years and beyond. Building on our base of private funding, our aspiration is to be permanently endowed. How will our national cultural and economic life have changed after a century of United States Artists? Will culture be affected when artists are as highly valued as art in our country? Will the convergence of science, engineering, and art redefine American innovation and global competitiveness?
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