McKinney awarded Precipice Fund grant

In November, Dr. Kacy McKinney and research assistant Olivia DelGandio were awarded a Precipice Fund grant from Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for Epilogue: 18 works of visual art offering an arts-based impact assessment of Changing the Narrative. Epilogue will be on public exhibition in May 2024, and the grant will support the publication of an exhibition book.

Since 2013, the Precipice Fund has provided critical support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon. Operating outside traditional forms of support, funded projects seek to promote dialogue, cultivate communities, and encourage generative and expansive artistic process while driving culture forward locally and nationally. The Precipice Fund recognizes these informal, experimental, and often anti-institutional projects as integral to the innovative spirit and vibrant art ecology of Metro Portland and surrounding areas. This fund is made possible through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program was established in 2007 to recognize and support the movement of independently organized, public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional art scenes but that lies beyond the reach of traditional funding sources. The program is administered by non-profit visual art centers across the United States that work in partnership with the Foundation to fund artists’ experimental projects and collaborative undertakings.

Photo courtesy of pica.org