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10/15/2026

Last week, VIA Partners and friends visited Philadelphia for a day dedicated to art and the institutions across the city who champion it! We visited VIA Grantee Monument Lab (Monument Lab) for a sneak peek of their future home, the Calder Gardens (Calder Gardens) for a private tour with Barnes Foundation (Barnes Foundation), and rounded out the trip with a special artist and curator tour at the Moore College of Art and Design’s new exhibition “Michelle Angela Ortiz: Stories of Us” (Michelle Angela Ortiz) before it opened to the public. Following these inspiring visits, Partners toasted at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s (philadelphiamuseumofart) VIP opening of “Duchamp.”Congratulations and many thanks to all of the artists and curators who shared their important work with us to make for such a special afternoon!

10/06/2026

VIA Grantee Auriea Harvey’s (Auriea Harvey) “Ready to Die” is currently on view at HEFT Gallery (Heft) in NYC. In this solo exhibition, closing on Saturday, Harvey returns to mythologies in her own likeness: part self-portrait, part vessel, part mythic double. Three films are joined by monuments, statues, vessels, carvings, and intimate talismans inhabit a chamber of passage – an environment shaped by death, rebirth, memory, and transformation.

10/05/2026

Grantee Kiyan William’s (Kiyan Williams) VIA-Supported “Entanglements” is a series of sculptural and architectural interventions that trace the histories embedded in the landscape and built environment of Boston. The first site-specific installation, “Stone Map (Ruttier for the Dispossessed),” was officially unveiled this weekend in collaboration with the City of Boston Arts & Culture Department (City of Boston Arts & Culture) as an earthwork composed of monolithic stones situated on Copp’s Hills Terrace in the city’s North End.

The installation lies at the heart of the former New Guinea settlement, one of the first Black communities in Boston; and is adjacent to Copp’s Hill Burying Ground, where over 1000 Black Bostonians are buried in unmarked graves. Among the unmarked graves are believed to be Phillis Wheatley Peters, the first Black woman to publish a book of poetry, and her child.

As a point of departure, Williams retraced the transatlantic voyage of the ship The Phillis that trafficked Wheatley Peters from her birthplace of Senegambia to Boston in 1761, gathering volcanic basalt stones from along coastal ports in West Africa, including Gorée Island, a colonial-era trading post. The stones are arranged in an “X” to form a cosmogram that aligns with the sun and other celestial bodies during the summer and winter solstices to trace the nautical routes between Boston, London, and Senegambia, mapping the transatlantic networks that shaped the lives of Wheatley Peters and those who lived in New Guinea, and more broadly the landscape of Boston.

Congratulations, Kiyan!

10/01/2026

VIA Grantee Kahlil Joseph and their VIA-supported “BLKNWS®” is a part of the inaugural MIT Future Fest (MIT Future Fest), that kicked off yesterday and will take place through Sunday. A special screening and talkback with the artist will be moderated by Natalie Bell (Natalie Bell), Chief Curator of the List Visual Arts Center (MIT List Visual Arts Center) tomorrow, Friday, October 2.

BLKNWS® treats journalism, archive, and speculation as parts of the same living frequency, a broadcast that does not report on the future so much as conjure it. In a place where the future is made, this is a rare opportunity to sit with a practice that asks what it sounds like, what it looks like, and whose voices carry it forward.

09/25/2026

VIA Partners, Grantees, and staff had a wonderful day at the VIP opening of The Armory Show (The Armory Show) We were thrilled to catch up with new and old friends and see artwork by many Grantees around the fair. Congratulations to all on view.

09/23/2026

Last week, VIA Partners were treated to a special day with Grantee Precious Okoyomon (Precious Okoyomon.) To celebrate the VIA-supported “Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation,” MoMA PS1’s inaugural Courtyard Commission, we visited the museum while it was closed to the public and heard from the artist, Connie Butler (Connie Butler), and curator of the project, Ruba Katrib. Following our visit, the conversation continued over lunch nearby! Many thanks to Precious and the PS1 team for such a special afternoon.

09/18/2026

Time Magazine just published the TIME100 Art 2026 list and we’re thrilled to see so many VIA Grantees and collaborators included! Please join us in congratulating Cecilia Alemani (Cecilia Alemani), Naomi Beckwith, Theaster Gates (Theaster Gates), Jeffrey Gibson (Jeffrey Gibson), Michael Govan (Michael Govan), David Hammons (David Hammons), Jenny Holzer (JENNY HOLZER STUDIO), Josh Kline (Josh Kline), Simone Leigh (Simone Leigh), Jessica Morgan, Tuan Andrew Nguyễn (Tuan Andrew Nguyen), Taryn Simon, Diya Vij, and Hank Willis Thomas (ᕼᗩᑎK) of For Freedoms (For Freedoms). An additional Brava to VIA collaborator Julia Halperin (Julia Halperin) on her role as one of the lead editors for this list.

09/16/2026

Earlier this week, VIA Partners joined Ford Foundation Gallery (Ford Foundation Gallery) Director Lisa Kim (Lisa Kim) for a private walk through of “Never The Same River, “ curated by Dexter Wimberly (Dexter Wimberly). The exhibition includes work by VIA Grantee Edison Peñafiel (Edison Peñafiel) and explores themes of bodily autonomy and human migration, considering how individuals assert agency over their own bodies in the face of cultural and systemic forces that seek to control or define them. Partners also took a tour of the impressive Ford Foundation (Ford Foundation) building to view highlights from its larger art collection. Thank you, Lisa!

09/10/2026

VIA Art Fund is now accepting LOIs for our Spring 2027 Artistic Production Grants! November 5 is the deadline to submit a Letter of Inquiry.

VIA Artistic Production grants are awarded to artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions to support new artistic commissions outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments. Individual artists or producing organizations seeking funding must have a confirmed exhibition venue or presenting partner. Artistic Production funding ranges from $25,000 to $100,000 per project. Artistic Production Grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify our core values of Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement. To find out more, please visit the link in our bio to review our LOI Guidelines, take the eligibility quiz, and submit!

09/03/2026

2025 VIA Curatorial Fellow Aram Moshayedi (Aram Moshayedi) has organized the current exhibition “To Share a Stomach,” on view at 2023 VIA Grantee The Brick (The Brick) through September 19!

Free and open to the public, the exhibition is shaped by proposals, instructions, and written correspondences sent by artists currently living and working in Iran. It was initiated in March 2026, when the country was seized by daily bombardment and the longest blackout in the internet’s history. The works in the exhibition have been executed and interpreted by artists performing as proxies on behalf of those constrained by circumstances not of their making.

📷: Ruben Diaz.

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