The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its Spring 2026 grant cycle, which will see the nonprofit dole out nearly $5.2 million to 78 arts and cultural organizations. The Spring 2026 cycle is divided into four types of grants: “Program Support Over 2 Years” (ranging from $50,000 to $100,000), “Exhibition Support” ($50,000–$100,000), “Curatorial Research Fellowships” ($27,000–$50,000), and “Projects Grants for Small-Scale Organizations” ($20,000–$30,000). Related Articles Warhol Foundation Expands Grant-Making Programs to Include Visual Arts Nonprofits with Budgets Under $200,000 Warhol Foundation to Give More Than $4 M. in Grants to 57 Arts Organizations The “Projects Grants for Small-Scale Organizations” is being distributed for the first time after the Warhol Foundation announced earlier this year that it would create a new program for organizations with annual budgets under $200,000. Among the 20 organizations receiving these project-based grants, totaling $530,000, are Golden Dome in Los Angeles, which will design a garden; Soon is Now in Beacon, New York, to realize an installation; Seafoam Palace in Detroit, for a site-specific commission in a warehouse; and Art from the Inside in Minneapolis, which will mount a group exhibition of commissioned works by formerly incarcerated artists. “At their best, visual arts organization cultivate creative risk-taking and promote the circulation of experimental approaches to culture. They are the incubators of new ideas, the platforms for underrepresented voices, and the community anchors that make artists’ visions accessible and intelligible to the public,” Warhol Foundation program director Rachel Bers said in statement. “Our recent grant program expansion reflects the foundation’s belief that small-scale institutions are just as vital as their larger and better known counterparts to the overall health of the arts ecosystem in this country; each has a crucial role to play in supporting the complexity and diversity of contemporary artistic practice.” The exhibition support grants will go toward realizing 18 shows, including solos for Joey Terrill at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Amanda Williams at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at the Jewish Museum in New York, Precious Okoyomon at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and Abdias Nascimento at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Group exhibitions receiving funding include “Terruño: Contemporary Photography and Sense of Place in the American Southwest” at the Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico in Taos, “Afterlives: Japanese American Artists and the Postwar Era” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and “Imperfect Balance” at the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The 31 organizations receiving multi-year support include BlackStar in Philadelphia; the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in New York; 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California; Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky; Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in San Jose, California; Performance Space New York; and Vox Populi in Philadelphia. Recipients of the curatorial fellowships include Margot Norton, chief curator of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in New York; Valérie Rousseau, curatorial chair and senior curator at the American Folk Art Museum; Natasha Becker, curator of African Art at the de Young Museum in San Francisco; and Tie Jojima, curator of global contemporary art at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. This cohort also features 33 first-time grantees, including Salmon Arts Creek in Albion, California; Yucca Valley Material Lab in Yucca Vallery, California; and Art Shanty Projects in Minneapolis, which “presents temporary artist-built shelters on frozen Lake Harriet that house exhibitions and performances by over 200 artists,” according to a release. “The work of visual artists is essential to how we understand ourselves, challenge one another, and imagine what is possible,” Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs said in a statement.“The Foundation is committed to supporting artists and the organizations that sustain them as they carry out some of the country’s most important cultural work, often under extraordinarily difficult conditions.” The full list of the Warhol Foundation’s Spring 2026 grantees follows below. Projects Grants for Small-Scale Organizations Program Support Over 2 Years Exhibition Support Curatorial Research Fellowship
