Esther Gottlieb at the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York, NY c. 1980

The Adolph and Esther #GottliebFoundation has been awarding grants to mature, creative visual artists since 1976. These awards are intended to recognize the talents of many individuals around the world who have dedicated long careers to making art and hopes to alleviate some of the financial burden on those artists so they can devote more of their time and energies to their creative endeavors.

Each one of the 12 artists whose names and work appear below was awarded a cash grant of $25,000 this year. These individuals were selected from a group of 409 applications by a panel of 5 advisors who are themselves professionals and who have no affiliation with the Gottlieb Foundation.

The recipients of the 2018 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant are:

Aaron Brown
Tomasz Domanski
Teo Gonzalez
Ira Joel Haber
Sheila Held
Ellen Koment
Greg Kwiatek
Thomas Leaver
Richard Nocera
Lorna Ritz
Arlene Santana
David Taborn

Images of works by and biographies for this year's grant recipients will be highlighted in our forthcoming newsletters as part of our Grant Recipient Spotlight feature. Recipient works can also be reviewed in the Grant Recipient gallery.

Complete information about our grant programs and applications for each one is available here.

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