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Giancarlo Montes Santangelo: sowing worlds within the incompossible
January 21, 2023 - March 11, 2023
FOR ARTISTS
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2025-2026 Open Call “Lineages: Generations of Creative Resilience in the District”
For WPA’s upcoming program season, we are inviting pairs of DC-area artists to submit proposals for artist-organized projects that center intergenerational collaboration.
Info Session: Thursday, July 17, 2025 — Watch the Recording here
Deadline: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 11:59pm ET — Application here
Presentations: November 2025–February 2026 & March–June 2026
Submit to Collectors’ Night Benefit Auction
Collectors’ Night raises money for WPA’s artist-organized projects, residencies, and publications. Taking place each spring, this annual benefit sale includes more than one hundred artworks by artists living throughout the United States. Proceeds from the sale are split between the artists and WPA.
Submission portal opens annually in the winter.
Wherewithal Grants
Wherewithal Grants are a funding source for artists in the DC-area. Generously funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its Regional Regranting Program and managed by WPA, these grants are intended to support a wide range of experimental and multidisciplinary practices, particularly those that emphasize collaboration and discourse.
Submission portal opens annually in the fall.
PUBLICATIONS
See all WPA PublicationsWPA maintains a robust publishing platform, producing unique publications in collaboration with resident artists.
Each publication highlights discoveries that emerge from select project residencies, symposia, et al. and provides context for further research and experimentation. Through our publications, WPA projects reach a wider audience and manifest potential for future iterations of projects beyond DC.
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How can we gather now?
The publication How can we gather now? documents an experimental symposium that took place from March 31 to April 2, 2023, in Washington, DC, around the topic of gathering.
Black Women as/and the Living Archive
This book is part of a larger project of the same name, curated and organized by interdisciplinary artist Tsedaye Makonnen, first presented at WPA in 2020.
My Barbarian
My Barbarian member Alexandro Segade was a contributor to meta-meta: book of instructions
Cyberfeminism Index
Mindy Seu was an artist-organizer and designer for WPA’s inaugural symposium How can we gather now? (2023)
To Imagine a Form of Life
To Imagine a Form of Life was organized by Fabiola Ching and presented by WPA in 2022