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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.
The application portal opens annually in the fall.
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.
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
ARCHIVE
Check it out hereWe’re so excited to share our new archives website, launched in conjunction with WPA’s 50th Anniversary. Designed by the amazing team at Outright, our new digital archive is a home for the vast repository of experimental and multidisciplinary projects that artists and curators have produced at WPA over the last five decades. It will remain an active and evolving space for documentation of future projects and curated stories moving forward.
- 1,300+ PROGRAM RECORDS FROM 1975–PRESENT
- 1,900+ ARTIST RECORDS
AND GROWING…
The archive centers WPA’s programmatic and institutional history, and houses records of hundreds of exhibitions, commissions, and public art projects, and thousands of performances, screenings, and community programs. Assets include installation photos, performance documentation, video transcripts, research notes, pdfs of publications, promotional materials, and institutional documents.
Check it out here: archive.wpadc.org
Are you a past WPA artist or curator?
Learn how How to Contribute to the Archive.
BOOKSTORE
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Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington Project for the Arts (1975-2010)
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.
To Imagine a Form of Life
To Imagine a Form of Life was organized by Fabiola Ching and presented by WPA in 2022