Weekly Initiative News 12/03/12

Dec
03

This week:

The National Endowment for the Arts announced its 2013 awardees this week. Several Warhol Initiative Grantees have been awarded an NEA Grant for 2013:

http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/13grants/13aae.php?CAT=Art+Works&DIS=Visual+Arts

PARTICIPANT INC will be at UNTITLED.art Miami from December 5 – 9, 2012. They will be featuring Ron Athey, Robert Boyd, John Brattin, Ellen Cantor, Johanna Constantine, Vaginal Davis, James Fotopoulos, Michelle Handelman, Lovett/Codagnone, Kembra Pfahler, Luther Price, Diana Puntar, Julie Tolentino, Conrad Ventur:

http://participantinc.org/frontpage_sidebar/news/dec-new/

An article speaking about Locust Projects’ Theaster Gates exhibition in the Miami Herald:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/01/3119042/kicking-it-up-a-notch.html

and

Creative Time and Trevor Paglen release a Time-Capsule into space:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/a-time-capsule-launched-into-space-for-aliens-to-find-when-all-the-humans-are-gone/265718/

Image credit: Migrants Seen by Predator Drone, U.S.-Mexico Border (public domain image, courtesy of Trevor Paglen and Creative Time)