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Arts of Life to receive $50,000 grant from Ruth Foundation for the Arts
Arts of Life is delighted to have been selected for a $50,000 general operating grant from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts.
This grant is a part of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts)’s Core Grant Program. Now in its third year, the application-based program is open to organizations that previously received an Artist Choice award. Applications are reviewed by a rotating group of readers working across disciplines and regions. Each year, a relevant theme frames the grant questions. In 2024, organizations considered the guiding question: How can improvisation, irresolution, and relationality guide us toward a collective future?
The 90 2024 Grantees range from visual and performing arts to interdisciplinary approaches and models centering arts education across 28 states, DC, and Puerto Rico.
Thank you to the Ruth Arts staff and grant program readers for this investment in our artists. We congratulate our fellow Ruth Arts Fall 2023 Grant Cycle Recipients:
- Antenna (New Orleans, LA)
- Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (New York, NY)
- Art Enables (Washington, DC)
- Art Handlxrs* (San Francisco, CA)
- Art.coop
- Arts Foundation of Kosciusko (Kosciusko, MS)
- Asian American Arts Alliance (New York, NY)
- Asian Refugees United (San Francisco Bay Area, CA and Greater Harrisburg, PA
- BalletX (Philadelphia, PA)
- Beta-Local (San Juan, PR)
- Black Art Library (Detroit, MI)
- Black Arts MKE (Milwaukee, WI)
- Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum (Denver, CO)
- Black Image Center (Los Angeles, CA)
- Black Lunch Table (Chicago, IL)
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (Asheville, NC)
- Black Painters Academy (New York, NY)
- BlackStar Projects (Philadelphia, PA)
- The Bread & Puppet Theater (Glover, VT)
- The Brooklyn Rail (Brooklyn, NY)
- Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York (New York, NY)
- Center for Native Futures (Chicago, IL)
- Charlotte Street (Kansas City, MO)
- Children’s Art Carnival (CAC) (New York, NY)
- Contemporary Art Library (Los Angeles, CA)
- Contemporary Arts Memphis (Memphis, TN)
- Corita Art Center (Los Angeles, CA)
- Crow’s Shadow (Pendleton, OR)
- Deaf Spotlight (Seattle, WA)
- Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) (San Francisco, CA)
- Dirt Palace Public Projects (Providence, RI)
- DiverseWorks (Houston, TX)
- Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Feel the Beat (Englewood, CO)
- First Peoples Fund (Rapid City, SD)
- Las Fotos Project (Los Angeles, CA)
- Franklin Furnace (New York, NY)
- GYOPO (Los Angeles, CA)
- Harlem Stage (New York, NY)
- Ho?omau N? Maka o ka ??ina (Ka??, HI)
- IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe, NM)
- Indigenous Peoples Task Force (Minneapolis, MN)
- La Impresora (Isabela, PR)
- Institute 193 (Lexington, KY)
- Josephine Sculpture Park (Frankfort, KY)
- Junior High (Glendale, CA)
- The Lab (San Francisco, CA)
- Leather Archives & Museum (Chicago, IL)
- Locust Projects (Miami, FL)
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) (Los Angeles, CA)
- Ma’s House (Shinnecock Indian Nation)
- Movement Research (New York, NY)
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (Portland, OR)
- New Red Order (New York, NY)
- Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development (NIAD) Art Center (Richmond, CA)
- Onaman Collective (Anishinaabeg Territory)
- Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency (Saugatuck, MI)
- Parceleras Afrocaribeñas (San Antón, PR)
- Performance Space New York (New York, NY)
- Pike School of Art – Mississippi (Summit, MS)
- Plataforma Eje (Puerto Rico)
- POT (Los Angeles, CA)
- Project for Empty Space (Newark, NJ)
- Project Onward (Chicago, IL)
- Project Row Houses (Houston, TX)
- The Center for Afrofuturist Studies at Public Space One (Iowa City, IA)
- Pu?uhonua Society (Honolulu, HI)
- Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco, CA)
- Rabbit Island Foundation (Lake Superior, MI)
- RCS Empowers, Inc. (Sheboygan, WI)
- Real Time and Space (Oakland, CA)
- Sala Diaz (San Antonio, TX)
- Seattle Asian American Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
- Side Street Projects (Pasadena, CA)
- Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Madison, ME)
- SOURCE Studio (Burnsville, NC)
- South Side Community Art Center (Bronzeville, Chicago, IL)
- Spiderwoman Theater (Brooklyn, NY)
- Taller Puertorriqueño (Philadelphia, PA)
- Tamir Rice Foundation (Cleveland, OH)
- Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja (Bay Shore, NY)
- Trades A.I.R. (Honolulu, HI)
- Ucross Foundation (Clearmont, WY)
- The Union for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE)
- Wa Na Wari (Seattle, WA)
- Walker’s Point Center for the Arts (Milwaukee, WI)
- Women Photograph (New Orleans, LA)
- Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY)
- YAYA (New Orleans, LA)
ABOUT THE RUTH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
With an inventive approach to philanthropy and artistic support rooted in creativity, care, and experimentation, The Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts) launched in 2022 to support organizations in the visual and performing arts. Leading with its flagship Artist Choice program that is guided by an artist-driven nomination process, the foundation continues to honor the legacy of its founder Ruth DeYoung Kohler II (1941–2020) with ten distinct grant programs. The foundation has awarded more than $30 million in grants to date.
