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The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), originally known as the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, is a nonprofit based foundation in New York City founded by artists Jasper Johns, John Cage, and others in 1963. FCA offers financial support and recognition to contemporary performing and visual artists through awards for artistic innovation and potential. FCA was founded in an effort to support performance artists through grants funded by the sale of donated artworks. The model was "Artists for Artists" as visual artists united to create the first benefit exhibition at the Allan Stone Gallery in support of their performance arts counterparts in 1963. Among early contributors to the Foundation's first benefit exhibition were Marcel Duchamp, Ellsworth Kelly, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, and Andy Warhol. Since its establishment, FCA has awarded more than 500 non-restrictive grants to individual artists and art organizations through its four grant programs: ''Grants to Artists'', ''Grants to Organizations'', ''Emergency Grants'', and the biennial ''John Cage Award.'' The annually-awarded ''Robert Rauschenberg Award'' was established in 2013. FCA is located at 820 Greenwich Street in the West Village neighborhood of New York City. == History == In the early 1960s, FCA founders - along with Robert Rauschenberg and other visual artists - assisted Merce Cunningham and his dance company in his plan for a week of dance performances at a Broadway theater. In order to finance the performances, the benefit exhibition, the first of its kind, was organized at the Allan Stone Gallery. Unfortunately, Cunningham's performances were not realized and the funds raised were then used to support the Cunningham company's world tour in 1964. Cunningham supported the notion that other performance artists that were "in the same boat" as he put it would continue to receive grants.〔("Artists for Artists." Foundation for Contemporary Arts. )〕 During its first year, FCA made grants to composers Earle Brown and Morton Feldman and underwrote a concert of their music presented at Town Hall in New York. Additional grants went to Judson Memorial Church, the Paper Bag Players, and choreographer Merle Marsicano. Other early grantees included choreographers Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, and Twyla Tharp; and composers Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and La Monte Young. In 1966, a lecture series given by Norman O. Brown, Peter Yates, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, Harold Rosenberg and Marshall McLuhan was held at the 92nd Street Y. A performance series, ''Nine Evenings: Theater and Engineering'' based on collaborations between engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories and performing artists was held at the 69th Regiment Armory with FCA's support. In 2015, the FCA converted a 496-square-foot room next to its offices into a project space called the Other Room dedicated exclusively to artist-curated exhibitions.〔Julia Halperin (May 28, 2015), (Jasper Johns behind new Manhattan project space ) ''The Art Newspaper''.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Foundation for Contemporary Arts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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