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Our mission is to support the creative work of individual artists through unrestricted grants, professional support, and community.

Willie Birch

2025 Milestone Grantee

Bio

Willie Birch (b. 1942) is a New Orleans–based artist whose work engages in social practice examining race, class, and culture through everyday and historical narratives. His art has been shown at major institutions including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, New Orleans Museum of Art, and SFMoMA. His work is included in numerous museum collections nationwide. Birch has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and NEA. His upcoming retrospective, "Willie Birch: Stories to Tell," is co-organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and the American Federation of Arts, with a Yale University Press catalogue. He is represented by Fort Gansevoort in New York.

Waiting For A Serious Conversation on the History of the South, 2017Charcoal and acrylic on paper72 × 75 inches

  • Black and white drawing of two rocking chairs side by side, one dark and one light colored, on a porch with porch light on the left and blooming tree in the background that is in front of another ascending staircase of another house.
  • Grayscale drawing of a clothing rack with clothes partially covered with a large piece of cloth, in front of a house in the middle of a yard sale. Chair to the left and bucket object on the right to the coat rack.
  • Grayscale drawing of a sun-glimmering, white-picketed house with windows with a bare tall tree.
  • Grayscale drawing of an alleyway with houses alongside electrical poles and cars parked along the street. Tracing of cars in the middle of driveway.
  • Grayscale image with large rock with a wooden handle is lodged in a metal grate on the ground; a fence, a tire, and a stylized American flag appear in the background.
  • Grayscale drawing; A person lies in a hospital bed near a window with closed blinds, looking outside at houses and trees; the room appears dimly lit.
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