Southern Exposure is excited to announce the recipients of grants in Round III of its Alternative Exposure grant program. In this round Southern Exposure awarded $60,000 to 17 projects. Alternative Exposure offers direct support to projects organized by individuals and unincorporated groups that provide frameworks of support for other artists to create and present visual arts in the Bay Area.

The 2009 Alternative Exposure grant recipients are:

Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Alula Editions
Art Practical
ArtXX Magazine
Average
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

An outside panel of three local arts experts selected the 2009 grantees. Panelists included: 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 will be available soon on the Alternative Exposure website: http://soex.org/alternativeexposure/

Through this program, Southern Exposure is committed to continuing to serve as a resource for the vibrant independent visual arts community. Southern Exposure launched the Alternative Exposure grant program in 2007 as a pilot program in a newly established national network of regional regranting programs supported by the Warhol Foundation, and to date has awarded $155,000 in direct funds to 50 Bay Area artists and projects.

NEXT APPLICATION ROUND: SoEx is excited to launch Round IV of Alternative Exposure in 2010. Stay tuned for details and deadlines!

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.