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Sharjah Art Foundation announces winners of the Focal Point 2020 Publishing Grant
Focal Point art book fair, 2019. Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. Photo: Sharjah Art Foundation.
SHARJAH
.-Sharjah Art Foundation today announced the recipients of the second Focal Point Publishing Grant, an annual fund supporting artistic and research-driven publishing practices that advance scholarly examination of art history in the region and the wider world. Grant recipients Ali Essafi, Ridha Moumni, Gabriella Nugent and hākārā were announced on the opening day of the third Focal Point Art Book Fair in the Foundations heritage venue Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. Selected from more than 100 submissions received after an international open call, the winners will share a total of 27,000 USD to support research projects in the Long-Form Essay and Publication Reprint categories. To be completed over the course of the next year, the projects will be published by Sharjah Art Foundation and presented at future editi
The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced four recipients of its second Focal Point Publishing Grant.
Selected from more than 100 submissions following an international open call, the winners - Ali Essafi, Ridha Moumni, Gabriella Nugent and hakara - will share a total of $27,000 to support research projects in the Long-Form Essay and Publication Reprint categories. To be completed over the course of the coming year, the projects will be published by Sharjah Art Foundation and presented at future editions of the art book fair Focal Point.
In line with the overarching theme of Sharjah Biennial 15 (due to open in spring 2022), which is highlighted in its title Thinking Historically in the Present the grant’s open call was directed towards supporting art historical research focusing on global modernism in the Measa (Middle East, Africa and South Asia) region.