Power Plant Grants just invested $60,000 in Indianapolis’ innovative art scene.
Operated by the Big Car Collaborative staff, Power Plant Grants is an annual program supporting visual artists living and working in Indianapolis through project grants. The program is funded by the Regional Regranting Program at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and awarded six local artists with $10,000 each to support their new creative, and often risk-taking, visual art projects.
“Power Plant Grants bolster creativity in the Indianapolis region by providing vital support that allows artists to envision their ideas, create forward-thinking projects, and establish meaningful dialogue with their communities,” Khadija Nia Adell, Regional Regranting Program Officer at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, said in a statement. “This round of grantees promises an exciting group of public-facing projects and we are grateful for Big Car Collaborative’s ongoing dedication to the artists of Indianapolis.”
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Big Car Collaborative first launched the program to distribute emergency grants during the height of the pandemic in 2020. However, the organization continued to award local artists with $60,000 of grants in 2021, 2022, 2023 and again this year.
“Indianapolis artists are brilliant,” Shauta Marsh, lead at Power Plant Grants, said in a statement. “It’s exciting to read these proposals each year and see six of them move from an idea into reality. We so appreciate the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts seeing the potential and investing in our artists.”
This year’s winners include Dailyn Eades’ “Hopawaaka: A Vision Quest of Contemporary Indigenous Art,” Gina Lee Robbins’ “On the Count,” Miracle Hall’s “Ecology UNKEMPT,” Quinn Tailor’s “Stitching Together Queer Generations,” Tanía Wineglass’s “Curiouser and Curiouser” and Michael Runge’s “Healing Bridge.”
Applicants were judged and selected by previous Power Plant Grant winner Boxx The Artist, as well as T Lance for the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art and Wavy of Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art School (BICA) in Buffalo, New York.
The awarded winners will complete their projects throughout the next year. Applications for the second round of the 2024-2025 Power Plant Grants opens in May 2025. Big Car Collaborate is one of 36 organizations across the country supporting local artists through funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program.
For more information, visit owerplantgrant.org, bigcar.org and warholfoundation.org.
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