Foundation for Contemporary Arts

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ABOUT Mission Since its inception in 1963, the mission of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations. FCA depends on artists to fund its programs; to date, over 1,000 artists have contributed paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs to help fund grant programs that directly support individual artists working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. Thus, FCA remains the only institution of its kind: created and sustained by artists to benefit artists. History In 1962 Jasper Johns, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and other painters and sculptors came together to help Merce Cunningham and his dance company finance a proposed season on Broadway by arranging for a sale of their artworks. Their fund-raising efforts were so successful that there was money to spare, and when they asked Cunningham what he thought they should do with it, he replied, “We're all in the same boat--why don't you give it to other performing artists?" Thus in 1963 Jasper Johns and John Cage established the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts based on the belief that visual artists – painters and sculptors – were sufficiently concerned about the state of the performance arts – dance, theatre and music – enough so to donate artwork to benefit performing artists. Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, Elaine Sturtevant, and Andy Warhol were among the sixty-seven artists who contributed to the Foundation's historic first benefit exhibition—the first fund-raising benefit of this kind. Proceeds from sales enabled the Foundation to launch a significant program of assistance to performing artists who were engaged in work of a contemporary nature. To date, over 1,000 visual artists have supported the Foundation's grants programs with major gifts of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints contributed for benefit exhibitions held over the years. During the first year of its existence, the Foundation made grants to composers Earle Brown and Morton Feldman, and a concert of their music was presented at Town Hall in New York. Additional grants went to choreographer Merle Marsicano, the Judson Memorial Church and the Paper Bag Players. Joining Johns and Cage on the original Board of Directors were painter Elaine de Kooning, Alfred Geller, David Hayes, and Lewis Lloyd. Benefit Exhibitions Since its inception, the FCA has held fifteen benefit exhibitions. The first fund-raising exhibition of paintings and sculptures was held at the Allan Stone Gallery in 1963. A number of significant benefit exhibitions followed: “Drawings, 1965," simultaneously shown at Leo Castelli, Tibor De Nagy and Kornblee Galleries; a print exhibition at the Kornblee Gallery in 1967; the 1980 “Drawings" show; “Eight Lithographs," published by Gemini G.E.L. in 1981, shown at Leo Castelli; the “25th Anniversary Exhibition," jointly shown at Brooke Alexander and Leo Castelli in 1988; the “30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings" at Leo Castelli in 1993; “Prints" at Brooke Alexander in 1995; “Drawings & Photographs" at Matthew Marks Gallery in 2000; “Clarissa Dalrymple's Exhibition of Young Artists to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts" at Bortolami Dayan in February 2006, “Posters: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts" at Paula Cooper Gallery in December 2006, "Photographic Works: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts" at Cohan and Leslie in December 2008, "Painting and Sculpture: Works Donated by Artists to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts" at Lehmann Maupin in December 2010 and January 2011; "Artists for Artists: 51st Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts" at Matthew Marks Gallery in December 2014 and January 2015; and "65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts" at David Zwirner in December 2016 and January 2017. Read more about FCA's benefit exhibition history. Events Between 1963 and 1966, the Foundation sponsored a number of public events, including a series of performances at The Pocket Theater featuring then-emerging artists like Trisha Brown, Robert Morris, Yvonne Rainer, David Tudor, and La Monte Young, among many others; a concert of music by then-emerging composers Morton Feldman and Earle Brown; “Six Lectures" (1966), a series of lectures given by Norman O. Brown, Merce Cunningham, R. Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, Harold Rosenberg, and Peter Yates; and “9 Evenings" (1966), a series of performances organized by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) for which contemporary artists and scientists created collaborative performance works.

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