KNIGHT NEW WORK AWARD (KNWA)

 

ATTENTION All Current and Former FAN Grantees,
Once again, we are delighted to invite your organization to apply for the Knight New Work Award (KNWA), an award inaugurated by FAN in honor of its 10th anniversary, and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The aim of the KNWA, in the amount of $25,000, is to stimulate the presentation of new work in the performing and visual arts in Miami-Dade County, and to reach an audience that is a broad cross-section of the community’s population.

The KNWA is awarded in addition to FAN’s annual grants. You may apply for both an annual FAN grant and the KNWA. However, the same program may not be the subject of both applications. If you have already submitted a proposal for a new work in the annual grant cycle, and wish to have it considered as part of the KNWA instead, you may ask Wendy Lapidus, our VP of Grants (VPGrants@fundingartsnetwork.org) to withdraw your previously submitted application from consideration, and you may submit a KNWA application in its place.
A Community Advisory Panel of leaders in the arts and philanthropy communities has been convened to assist FAN in the screening of the KNWA. They will evaluate proposed programs on the basis of artistic merit; the creativity (and effectiveness) of the planned audience outreach; and the potential of the proposed outreach to engage a large and diverse community attendance/participation.

Please click below to download and print the Application and Guidelines for 2010 and if you need the application in word format please contact Rachel Blechman, KNWA coordinator at rachelblechman@fundingartsnetwork.org
Please read them carefully as there have been some changes.

• Applications must be postmarked no later than March 5, 2010.

• Screening will take place during March and April of 2010.

2010 KNWA Application (download here)

2010 KNWA Guidelines (download here)

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PAST AWARDS 2008 and 2009

FAN in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  awarded two $50,000 Knight New Work Award Grants in the last two years.

KNWA is a grant  presented to an arts organization in Miami-Dade County for a quality premiere to be shown or performed in Miami-Dade County which would reach out to a broad cross section of the population by innovative means.  The purpose of the grant was to raise the profile of Miami-Dade County as an arts location worthy of a premiere; enhance the arts experiences of our citizens ; and reach and develop audiences who might not have otherwise  been able to attend.

KNWA 2009 GRANTEE

In 2009 the Grant was awarded to Disapora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator for “Elusive Landscapes”.  As part of its Off The Wall Experimental Lab Series, DVCA will present a multi-media public art project by Miami-based artist Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez. Elusive Landscapes is a site specific film installation, presented in 5 Miami neighborhoods on separate evenings over the course of 6 months ( June to November 2010), culminating in a solo exhibition, featuring film footage from all sites, with video and still images from each installation.

Rodriguez, an artist whose work has consistently combined a tactile, experimental approach to the 16mm genre and a dedication to the expansion of this discipline, especially in to the realm of public art and performance, will present this large-scale public art project that celebrates natural landscapes in urban environments through the magic of hand crafted film.

KNWA 2008 GRANTEE

In 2008 the grant was awarded to the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum for “Thougths on Democracy” reinterpreting Norman Rockwell’s  Four Freedoms  Posters.   60 contemporary artists reinterpreted the four basic ideals expressed in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech to congress in 1941, which envisioned a world founded upon four essential freedoms - Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Want and Freedom from Fear”. The resulting exhibit was accessible to the entire community through free admission, innovative outreach and planned interactions on the web and seminars. http://uvu.channel2.org/PublicSite/Results.aspx?search_wolfsonian.

In September 2009 the exhibition will be part of the “Art in Public Place” exhibition at Miami Beach City Hall.