Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure grant program seeks to fuel the energy of the local visual arts community by supporting the vibrant artistic activity that occurs on the ground level. Alternative Exposure grants provide direct support, up to $3,500, to individuals and groups working in the visual arts to create frameworks of support for other artists working and presenting work in our communities.
Alternative Exposure Round III 2009 Grant Recipients
Southern Exposure is proud to announce the recipients of grants in Round III of our Alternative Exposure grant program. In this round Southern Exposure awarded $60,000 to 17 projects.
Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Alula Editions
AoRTa Magazine
Art Practical
Average magazine
Chris Fitzpatrick & Post Brothers
Critter
Destructibles.org
Happenstand
iiiahh
Pueblo Nuevo Gallery
Ribbons
SMITHS
Stop & Go Rides Again
THE THING Quarterly
The Upper Left Ethnography Project
VOLUME and Kadet Kuhne
CLICK HERE to see a list of brief descriptions for each project.
An outside panel selected the 2009 grantees, including Renny Pritikin, curator and director of the Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at UC Davis; Margaret Tedesco, artist and founder of [2nd floor projects]; and Weston Teruya, artist and program associate with the Cultural Equity Grants program of the San Francisco Arts Commission. More information about the 2009 grantees is available on the Alternative Exposure website: www.soex.org/alternativeexposure
ROUND IV OF ALTERNATIVE EXPOSURE IS COMING UP! Guidelines for Round IV will be available in May 2010. Stay tuned for more details, information sessions, and new guidelines at www.soex.org.
Brief History of Alternative Exposure
Southern Exposure is committed to continuing to serve as a resource for the vibrant independent visual arts community through this and our other programs. With major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Alternative Exposure offers direct support to Bay Area based unincorporated groups, burgeoning art and gathering spaces, publications, websites, collectives, events, and projects that fall outside the traditional frameworks of support. In the three years since launching Alternative Exposure, SoEx has awarded $155,000 in direct funds to 50 Bay Area projects.
2008 Grant Recipients: Black Boots Ink, Hamburger Eyes, Home is something I carry with me, Hot and Cold, Invisible Venue, News of Common Possibility, Plastic Antinomy Magazine, Practice + Practice, Project Bunch, Receiver Gallery, Right Window, Rowan Morrison Gallery, Teaching from Old Textbooks, The Garage Biennale, The Present Group, The Spare Room Project, Triple Base Gallery, and the Underground Art Crew.
2007 Grant Recipients: [2nd floor projects], 31 Rausch, 667 Shotwell, Bay Area Magazine for Meaningful Arts, Blankspace, Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP), Dirty Drawers, Ethsix, Fabricators, Fecal Face Dot Gom, Femina Potens, Neighborhood Sign Club, Shelters, Shotgun Review, and Stretcher.
To learn more about these groups and their projects go to the Alternative Exposure website at www.soex.org/alternativeexposure
Regional Regranting Beyond the Bay Area
SoEx’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program was a pilot program in a newly established national network of regional regranting programs supported by the Warhol Foundation. The Foundation aims to support vibrant, under-the-radar artistic activity by partnering with leading cultural institutions in communities across the country. By working with organizations like SoEx, it allows them to reach the sizeable population of informal,
non-incorporated artist collectives and projects.
Generous lead support for Alternative Exposure is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
