{"id":1583,"date":"2010-02-23T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/02\/hefty_dale_chihuly_grant\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:11:09","slug":"hefty_dale_chihuly_grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/02\/hefty_dale_chihuly_grant.html","title":{"rendered":"Hefty Dale Chihuly grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chihuly.com\/\">Dale Chihuly<\/a> grant is a hefty chunk of change: $25,000 for two Washington State artists in any discipline annually for three years, administered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisttrust.org\/\">Artist Trust<\/a>. Chihuly and his wife Leslie gave $150,000, and Artist Trust turned it into a recession gap-grant with bells on.<\/p>\n<p>Three years from now, we&#8217;ll all be coming up roses, right? Better a sizable check in tight times than the same amount extended over a longer period. I&#8217;ll drink to that.<\/p>\n<p>The Chihulys could have limited the award to glass artists. I&#8217;m glad they didn&#8217;t. They could have limited it to visual artists. I wish they had, not because I begrudge dancers, writers, musicians and theater workers their chance at temporary financial security, but because artists in all disciplines benefit from what visual artists continue to provide, every year, at the Artist Trust Auction. That&#8217;s 23 years of giving away their work to support everybody&#8217;s work. <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s auction was a big success, says Artist Trust. It raised <strike>$325,000<\/strike>, $315,000, highest in AT history. The money earned by visual artists goes to fund &#8220;grants, resources and career training for artists in all disciplines throughout Washington State.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The highest bid of the night was $5,000 for <a href=\"http:\/\/alanfulle.com\/index.php\">Alan Fulle<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Freedom Space<\/i> (<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/font>23&#8243; x 52&#8243; oil and acrylic on canvas within epoxy resin from 2008). At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travergallery.com\/gallery_artist_details\/Alan-Fulle.aspx\">Traver Gallery<\/a>, this piece lists at $7,500. The high-water bid was a bargain. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"allenfullefreedom.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/allenfullefreedom.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"172\" width=\"404\" \/>Fulle is underrated, but apparently not by those drinking champagne and waving bid paddles over their heads. Although he&#8217;s a dazzling and materially adventurous painter, he shows at a gallery known for glass. Its audience is a gated community, with little follow-through traffic on the street.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, congratulations to Artist Trust, and big thanks to the Chihulys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Dale Chihuly grant is a hefty chunk of change: $25,000 for two Washington State artists in any discipline annually for three years, administered by Artist Trust. Chihuly and his wife Leslie gave $150,000, and Artist Trust turned it into a recession gap-grant with bells on. Three years from now, we&#8217;ll all be coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}