Wherewithal Research Presentations

Artists who received a 2022 Wherewithal Research Grant will share where their inquiries have been taking them. These virtual presentations will take place on Thursday, September 22 from 6:30–8:00 pm over Zoom. Auto-generated captioning will be available. RSVP here.

This year's Research Grantees are: Rasha Abdulhadi, Monica Jahan Bose, Safiyah Cheatam & Hope Willis, Larry Cook, Deirdre Darden, Rex Delafkaran, and Armando Lopez-Bircann. Their research covers such wide-ranging subjects as Palestinian tatreez, club and prison photography, abolitionist technology, queer eco-feminism, and DC's Black youths' relationship to Islam in the early 2000s. Learn more about them here.

About Wherewithal Grants

Wherewithal Grants are a funding source for visual 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. Since launching in 2019, Wherewithal Grants has supported 112 visual artists with a total of $160,000 in grants.

About the Warhol Foundation 

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' Regional Regranting Program was established in 2007 to recognize and support the movement of independently organized, public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional art scenes but that lies beyond the reach of traditional funding sources. The program is administered by non-profit visual art centers across the United States that work in partnership with the Foundation to fund artists’ experimental projects and collaborative undertakings.

The regranting programs are facilitated by 516 Arts in Albuquerque; Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation in Baltimore; Gallery 400 and Three Walls in Chicago; DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses in Houston; Charlotte Street Foundation and Spencer Museum in Kansas City; Locust Projects in Miami; Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis; Antenna and Ashe’ Cultural Fund in New Orleans; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland (OR); Spaces Gallery in Portland (ME), Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and Washington Project for the Arts in Washington, DC.