"The Andy Warhol Foundation named 28 arts writers and three translators to receive its annual Arts Writers Grant, today, Wednesday, December 3. The 31 grant recipients will receive a combined total of $1.04 million for articles, books, short-form writing, and translated texts. For the first time in the arts grant's 20-year history, the foundation awarded $30,000 grants to three writers to translate books about contemporary art from another language into English. The inaugural winners - Jessica Gogan, Ekido Ikeda Kay, and viento izquierdo ugaz - were selected to translate writings from Portuguese, Japanese, and Spanish, respectively."
"Gogan, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Pittsburgh, will translate Creation Sundays: A Poetic Collection of the Experimental in Art and Education, which recounts free expression events at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM) under Brazil's military dictatorship,byBrazilian criticFederico Morais. Eriko Ikeda Kay will translate From Their "Onna no ko shashin" to Our Girly Photo by Yurie Nagashima, a book about women photographers in the 1990s. Viento izquierdo ugaz will translate works by the late Peruvian drag queen and performance artist Giuseppe Campuzano, Saturday Night Thriller and Other Writings, 1992-2013."
The Andy Warhol Foundation selected 31 recipients — 28 arts writers and three translators — for its annual Arts Writers Grant, distributing a combined $1.04 million for project support. For the first time, three $30,000 translation grants fund translations from Portuguese, Japanese, and Spanish into English. Jessica Gogan will translate Federico Morais's Creation Sundays; Eriko Ikeda Kay will translate Yurie Nagashima's From Their "Onna no ko shashin" to Our Girly Photo; viento izquierdo ugaz will translate Giuseppe Campuzano's Saturday Night Thriller and Other Writings. Additional grantees received between $15,000 and $50,000 for projects including immigration visa coverage and examinations of Palestinian art censorship.
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