PROJECTS
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Giancarlo Montes Santangelo: sowing worlds within the incompossible
January 21, 2023 - March 11, 2023
Notions of Exile
January 23 - March 15, 2021
Co-curated by Fabiola R. Delgado and Faride Mereb
FOR ARTISTS
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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 in the winter
Open Call
Our annual call for one-off events in and around DC
Submission portal opens in the fall
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
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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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