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MUSEUM FOR ART IN WOOD RECEIVES AN $80,000 GRANT FROM THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, SUPPORTING ITS ONGOING PROGRAMS The two-year grant supports the museum’s public programs, including exhibitions, residencies, lectures, workshops, and more
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Philadelphia, PA | January 23, 2025 – Museum for Art in Wood (141 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106) received a two-year, $80,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in January to support the museum’s programs, including exhibitions, residencies, lectures, workshops, and more. This is the first time the Museum has received a grant from the Warhol Foundation. Over the last four decades, Museum for Art in Wood has enhanced the public’s understanding of contemporary art in wood, providing opportunities for visitors and makers to experience creative approaches to the material directly through its programming and free admission. The organization’s programs stimulate and nurture artists and encourage creative approaches to wood, an organic, shapeable, sustainable, and conceptually inspiring material.
Following Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The Foundation manages an innovative and dynamic grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the Foundation has given nearly $300 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations around the country and abroad, and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.
With the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Museum continues to serve an international community of artists, scholars, and collectors as a critical resource in studying art, craft, and design in wood.
“This support from the Andy Warhol Foundation marks a first in the history of the Museum for Art in Wood,” said Jennifer-Navva Milliken, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum for Art in Wood. “Being recognized by one of the most prominent foundations supporting contemporary art in America is an incredible statement of confidence in our organization. Beyond the critical underwriting this grant provides, it will raise the profile of the Museum among national audiences. It especially honors the Museum’s commitment to artists, and to providing opportunities for the ambitious testing of ideas, exploration at all career stages, and the building of strong communities and discourse.”
For a preview of the upcoming exhibitions on display at Museum for Art in Wood in 2025, please see the information below or visit the website at www.museumforartinwood.org.
Museum for Art in Wood exhibitions in 2025
Mark Sfirri: La Famiglia (Through February 16)
Mark Sfirri: La Famigila is the first museum-organized solo exhibition by celebrated artist and woodturner Mark Sfirri. The highly personal exhibition of new and never-before-seen work offers a way of thinking about the definition of family and its meanings through different lenses: families versus born into; families of species and identities; and familial strife and unconditional love, support, and dysfunction. La Famiglia represents a coming to terms with generational passing through Sfirri’s adoption of a spontaneous, “flow state” approach in his wood turning, carving, and surface processes.
In addition to new works by Sfirri, the exhibition features a collaborative project that includes the work of 45 artists and colleagues who were asked to contribute a two-dimensional artwork depicting an “immigrant” of their choice, whether a person or an idea.
Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance Between Two Points (March 7 to July 20, 2025)
Katie Hudnall makes tools, furniture, and objects that are perfectly suited for a peculiar world. The first museum-organized solo presentation of Hudnall’s unique and captivating work, The Longest Distance between Two Points reveals a rare glimpse into the artist’s rich inner world. Here, the absurd and mechanically improbable merges with fine woodworking and salvaged wood materials to bring mechanisms and structures to life and action.
Annual Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood Exhibition | August 1 to October 19 The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood (WARP Wood) is an international two-month program that takes place annually from early June to early August. Each cohort of resident fellows consists of several artists, one student artist, a documentary artist, and a scholar. The residents live and work in a collaborative environment, and the residency culminates in a group exhibition of their work, opening on the first Friday of August at the Museum for Art in Wood. The residency is designed as a collegial experience and encourages an open exchange of creative and technical occupations. Resident fellows can pursue both individual and collaborative work that is explorative, experimental, research-based, or otherwise enriching to the artistic practice.
WARP Wood is an integral part of the Museum for Art in Wood and is possible through the transformative support from the Windgate Foundation.
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About Museum for Art in Wood:
Museum for Art in Wood is the international leader for contemporary art and creativity in the material of wood. The Museum engages, educates, and inspires the public through the exhibition, collection, and interpretation of contemporary art in wood. Founded in 1986 and sited in Philadelphia, the Museum for Art in Wood serves a local and international community. Ithas built its reputation by providing opportunities for makers and visitors to experience craft directly, through participatory programming; seminal exhibitions and documentation; and the growth, conservation, exhibition, and care of its permanent collection. The Museum’s practice of keeping these resources free and available to the public emphasizes its commitment to building a democratic and inclusive community. Visit museumforartinwood.org to learn more.
About The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts:
In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The Foundation manages an innovative and flexible grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the Foundation has given nearly $300 million in cash grants to more than 1,000 arts organizations in 49 states and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.
