The Andy Warhol Foundation awards a $50,000 Curatorial Research Fellowship grant to Fathomers curators
The award will support the curatorial team for their work on Emergence: A Genealogy
Fathomers is thrilled to report that a $50,000 Curatorial Research Fellowship grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has been awarded to Annie Fischer, Antajuan Scott and Stacy Switzer to produce and propel creative research for Emergence: A Genealogy. This exhibition and public program series seeks to explore visions and iterations of the future human as seen through the lenses of biotechnology and bioart. Opening in fall 2024, as part of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, Emergence will survey the global landscape of bio art, intersections of synthetic biology and creative practice, and changing definitions of what is natural, conscious, and essential to human existence.
Fathomers is grateful to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for the gift of their confidence and support.
About the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The foundation manages an innovative and flexible grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the foundation has given over $260 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations in 49 states and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.
About Emergence
Emergence: A Genealogy is a global bioart survey that — in its commingling of synthetic biology with design, sculpture, social practice, performance, and artist-led activism — probes changing definitions of what is natural, conscious, and essential to human existence.
Supported by Pacific Standard Time, Fathomers is one of 45 cultural, educational, and scientific institutions throughout Southern California to receive support from the Getty for their projects — which will result in dozens of simultaneous exhibitions and programs focused on the intertwined histories of art and science — to take place in fall 2024.
Fathomers will present Emergence: A Genealogy at the Japanese American Community & Cultural Center.
About Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented series of collaborations among institutions across Southern California. In each, organizations simultaneously present research-based exhibitions and programs that explore and illuminate a significant theme in the region’s cultural history.
In Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, more than 60 cultural institutions joined forces between October 2011 and March 2012 and rewrote the history of the birth and impact of the L.A. art scene. In Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, presented from September 2017 through January 2018, more than 70 institutions collaborated on a paradigm-shifting examination of Latin American and Latinx art, seen together as a hemispheric continuum.
Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty Foundation.