The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) announced today the twenty-four artists who will receive its $45,000 Grants to Artists awards—the largest such grantee cohort to date. These unrestricted awards recognize experimental artists working in Dance, Music/Sound, Performance Art/Theater, Poetry, and Visual Arts, and provide financial support for increased freedom in their lives and practices. As an artist-founded and artist-led organization, the awards provide grantees with encouragement from a community of their artist peers and embody the generosity of spirit that is core to FCA’s values. Notably three of this year’s grantees—Olivia Block, Edgar Garcia, and Nyeema Morgan—are based in Chicago, with rigorous experimental practices in music, poetry, and visual arts respectively, alongside grantees in Haifa, Israel/Palestine; Oaxaca, Mexico; and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Visual Arts:
Teresa Baker, Livingston, MT (The Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting)
Nanette Carter, New York
Christopher Cozier, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (The Roy Lichtenstein Award)
Kearra Amaya Gopee, Brooklyn, NY
Janet Olivia Henry, Jamaica, NY (This award is supported by the FCA Friends)
Nyeema Morgan, Chicago
Teresa Baker, Livingston, MT (The Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting)
Nanette Carter, New York
Christopher Cozier, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (The Roy Lichtenstein Award)
Kearra Amaya Gopee, Brooklyn, NY
Janet Olivia Henry, Jamaica, NY (This award is supported by the FCA Friends)
Nyeema Morgan, Chicago
February 23, 2026
