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FCA Announces Grants to Artists, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage Awards for 2014
Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014 Grants to
Artists awards. Fourteen unrestricted grants of $30,000 each—a total of $420,000—are to be made to
individual artists and one collective in the United States.
Nominated confidentially by prominent artists and arts professionals and selected by the Directors of the
Foundation and noted members of the arts community, the 2014 recipients are:
DANCE
Lance Gries, New York, NY
Trajal Harrell, New York, NY
Heather Kravas, Seattle, WA
Okwui Okpokwasili, Brooklyn, NY
MUSIC/SOUND
James Fei, Oakland, CA
Jeph Jerman, Cottonwood, AZ
John King, New York, NY
PERFORMANCE ART/THEATER
Black-Eyed Susan, New York, NY
Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson, Chicago, IL
Annie-B Parson, Brooklyn, NY
POETRY
Ted Greenwald, New York, NY
Eileen Myles, New York, NY
VISUAL ARTS
Wardell Milan, New York, NY
Cauleen Smith, Chicago, IL
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG AWARD
Elodie Lauten, New York, NY
JOHN CAGE AWARD
Phill Niblock, New York, NY
The Foundation has awarded the second annual Robert Rauschenberg Award to composer Elodie
Lauten (New York, NY). The Robert Rauschenberg Award was permanently endowed by The Robert
Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) in 2012 to honor the artist’s legacy of innovation, risk-taking, and
experimentation. Rauschenberg was one of FCA’s original contributing artists and was generous to FCA
throughout his life. Like the 2014 Grants to Artists awards, the Robert Rauschenberg Award is an
unrestricted, $30,000 award; it is FCA’s first endowed grant, inaugurated in 2013, and is awarded each
year through the same confidential nomination process. For over three decades, Ms. Lauten has defied
categorization as a composer. She has created work across genres including opera, electronic, vocal,
chamber, and orchestral music. Click here for the full Grants to Artists and Robert Rauschenberg Award
press release.
The Foundation has also awarded the John Cage Award to artist Phill Niblock (New York, NY). The
John Cage Award is made biennially in recognition of outstanding achievement in the arts for work that
reflects the spirit of John Cage. This prestigious $50,000 award was established in 1992 in honor of the
late composer, who was one of FCA’s founders. The selection is made from invited nominations. Mr.
Niblock has been an active presence in the avant-garde music scene for more than 50 years. Since the
1960s, he has created multi-layered performance installations that incorporate simultaneous events in
sound, film, video, and photography. His music is composed of several microtonal drones with nearly
imperceptible changes over long durations. He has been Director of Experimental Intermedia, an
organization which presents performances by artists incorporating film, movement, and music since
1985, and he has hosted over 1,000 concerts in his downtown New York loft. Niblock received a Grants to
Artists award from FCA in 1994. Click here for the full John Cage Award press release.
For more information about FCA’s grant programs, please visit our website.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts | 820 Greenwich Street | New York, NY 10014
www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org
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