Vaquita Borracha, Oaxaca Mexico
March, 2024

About the event

Across four different projects, del Pesco
has organized the disbursement of 17,000 USD
in direct grants to artists.

From 2013 to 2014, with the support of a friend who remained anonymous (except to the grantees) we gave 12 travel grants of $1,000 once-per-month to an SF Bay Area artist with a specific need to travel.

We invited artists to send a one paragraph description of where they wanted to go and why via email, attaching 3-5 images of their work. Submissions were open from the 1st through the 20th of each month. The only thing asked of awardees was to send a postcard from their travel destination.

Collective Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2009

The exhibition featured a selection of unconventional granting endeavors, including Service Works by Josh Greene, the Co-op Bar by Steve Lambert and others. The propositional foundation also gave a series of grants that included one that collected surplus publications from area institutions, which were sold as a library survey of SF arts orgs to an institution in San Jose. The income became a grant that was awarded during the exhibition.

Feral Share, Headlands Center for the Arts, 2010

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