Awards & Recognitions

  • The National Performance Network is thrilled to announce the third cohort of the Take Notice Fund, honoring artists of color in Louisiana. NPN envisions a world in which artists of color living and working in the South have the power, resources, and opportunities to thrive. The Take Notice Fund is part of NPN’s Southern Programs and expands upon this critical vision for the South.

    “This grant recognizes that an artist or culture bearer’s practice is supported by many components of that artist’s life,” says NPN Director of Southern Programs Stephanie Atkins. “It’s not just being in the studio. We give these unrestricted funds so they can determine how to direct those funds, to support what they need to spend this money on so they can get closer to doing this work.”

    By focusing on Louisiana, NPN aims to deepen the pool of direct funding opportunities for artists in our state. Take Notice Fund is supported with funding from the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression program. As part of an explicit commitment to the American South, the Ford Foundation has provided more than $175 million since 2016 to Southern organizations “who are advancing justice at a moment of historic opportunity.”

    “There is an immense need to increase philanthropy to reach artists and arts organizations in the American South,” says Lane Harwell, who is on the Creativity and Free Expression team at Ford Foundation. “Ford is proud to support Take Notice Fund as it’s one critical effort to uplift underrepresented voices and increase geographic equity in the distribution of arts funding to ensure vital creative voices are heard.”

    —Ford Foundation, Creativity and Free Expression Overview

  • Issued by the Fine Arts Club of Pasadena.

  • This grant is awarded to one outstanding 3rd year undergraduate student in the University of Southern California - Roski School of Art and Design. Selected through a competitive process, the $5,000 prize will support a proposed photographic project resulting in an exhibition in the spring of their senior year in the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery. Selected students will be provided with an Agreement to Exhibit in Lindhurst Gallery form.

  • University of Southern California