The FAB! Knight New Work Award funds the creation of new, innovative visual and performing art works of the highest artistic merit to be presented in Broward County. These new awards will be a catalyst to Broward County cultural presenters to innovate, to invest in the professional development of their creative personnel, to purchase necessary equipment, to collaborate with guest artists, and more. With the help of a $150,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Funding Arts Broward is proud to be able to put greater resources in the hands of artistic leaders in Broward County and raise the bar for creative production in South Florida.
Click here to download the FAB! Knight New Work Award Application, Year 2.
Application Deadline: By or before 5:00 p.m., April 16, 2012
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Click here to read more about the FAB! Knight New Work on the Knight Arts blog.
First FAB! Knight New Work Award project underway
Artist Unknown / The Free World
[Photography from Social Media }
by Oliver Wasow/John D. Monteith
Oct 28, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Art and Culture Cetner of Hollywood
1650 Harrison Street, Hollywood
www.artandculturecenter.org
The U.S. premiere of a first-of-its-kind exhibition features hundreds of images of vernacular photography found online by artists John D. Monteith and Oliver Wasow. From the bizarre to the sublime, these anonymously sourced amateur photographs provide a fascinating view of American culture through the new frontier of social media.
Artist Unknown/The Free World is born of countless hours of online conversations between Wasow and Monteith. It reflects a new, emerging genre in contemporary visual culture and the artists’ recognition that in a digital environment the artist’s practice is increasingly migrating from the confines of the studio to the image-rich landscape of the World Wide Web.
First Round of FAB! Knight New Work Award recipients announced
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011, the three FAB! Knight New Work Award jurors convened to share their findings with FAB!
After detailed review of twenty one grant applications, the jurors agreed that the winner of the $50,000 award is the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood for Artist Unknown/The Free World, a curated exhibition and publication exploring the new aesthetic of internet photography. Awards of $20,000 each will go to Mosaic Theater for the Michael Brewer Project, an original new play commissioned by prolific playwright Joe Calarco and the Broward Film Society for Movies of Our Lives, a county-wide participatory film/video project.
The jurors were Peter Boswell, Senior Curator, Miami Art Museum; James Judd, former conductor of the Florida Philarmonic Orchestra; and Mary Luft, Executive Director, Tigertail Productions. We sincerely appreciate their thoughtful comments and dialogue as well as their time and expertise.
We thank all our applicants for their time and efforts and look forward to the next round of submissions for the following FAB! Knight New Work grant year!
A special thank you to our FAB! Knight Funding Partners
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
AutoNation
Connie and Theo Folz
David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation
Hudson Family Foundation
BankAtlantic – Dara and Jarett Levan
Terry and Jamie StilesGail and Michael Kaplan
Halmos Holdings, Inc.
Jean and Harvey Schwartz
2010 FAB! Knight New Work Award Press Release
November 30, 2010 – Fort Lauderdale, FL
Funding Arts Broward! (FAB!) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Knight New Work Awards, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Each year, for three pilot years, a $50,000 award, and two $20,000 awards will be granted to previously funded FAB! awardees for the creation of a new visual or performing arts work of the highest artistic merit to be presented in Broward County. These new awards will be a catalyst to Broward County cultural presenters to innovate, to invest in the professional development of their creative personnel, to purchase necessary equipment, collaborate with guest artists, and more. By putting greater resources in the hands of artistic thought leaders in Broward County, the FAB! Knight New Work Award will raise the bar for creative production in South Florida.
FAB! Knight New Work Awardees will be selected by a panel of arts professionals assembled by Funding Arts Broward! Recipients of this award will find fewer restrictions on the activities funded in order to realize their artistic visions. The FAB! Knight New Work Awards will be a dynamic new stimulus to local artists to think bigger, and to produce more ambitious works. The FAB! Knight New Work Awards will transform production and appreciation of the arts in Broward County, ultimately redefining the area as a cultural center, more than a periphery to Miami-Dade.
The FAB! Knight New Work Awards are designed for success. Creative marketing and free master classes or artistic demonstrations by awardees will cultivate new audiences in underserved communities. An annual artist-designed poster will be produced by FAB! and displayed throughout the County to create greater awareness of the three awardees and their works. By supporting and promoting the FAB! Knight New Work Award recipients, the entire community will benefit. It is expected that the establishment of these Awards will prove to be a game-changing event for the cultural life of Broward County. Their existence will draw new talent to the Broward community and reward existing talent that already makes its home here.
The Knight New Work Awards are a timely development in FAB!’s evolving growth and success. Since 2003, FAB! has awarded more than one million dollars to more than thirty arts organizations in Broward County. FAB! was formed in response to significant decreases in government arts funding. FAB!’s mission is to enrich the Broward County arts community by funding high quality Broward County based visual and performing arts programming. All FAB! activities are coordinated by volunteers who each make an annual donation. All FAB! members share a common belief that art and culture in contemporary society transcend our individual differences and unite us in celebration of the human spirit. For more information, www.fundingartsbroward.org.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invest in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. The Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote community engagement and lead to transformational change. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge is a five-year, $40 million initiative to bring South Florida together through the arts. For more information, visit www.knightfoundation.org.
