Since our founding in 2021 as the Generative Art Fund, and now as the Generative Art Foundation, we have deployed more than $420,000 in grants to museums, universities, nonprofit organizations, and artists around the world. Our giving follows the four pillars that guide our mission. We are grateful to every partner and donor who has made this work possible.

Opportunity

We have worked to expand access to creative coding and support artists from underrepresented communities. We provided grants to AnitaB.org, Code2040, and Code/Art to support creative coding education, and we partnered with The School of Architecture in Arizona to offer creative coding instruction to Native American youth. Through a collaboration with SaveArtSpace, generative art created by disadvantaged youth was showcased on public billboards in the Bay Area.

We also funded the Lumen Prize Special Commendation Award, which recognizes an outstanding BIPOC female generative artist selected through an international open call, and provided scholarships for generative artists participating in the Artist Commons program.

Education

We have advanced the teaching and public understanding of generative art. We funded the University of Houston's "Creative Coding in the High Desert" course in Marfa, Texas, supported a course within NYU's Integrated Design and Media program, and funded a talk series with UCLA Social Software.

To help document the history of the medium, we provided seed funding for two documentaries. "Generative" traces the history of generative and computational art, and "Emergence in Marfa" follows individuals and personalities engaged with contemporary algorithmic art.

Preservation

We have strengthened the tools and archives the field depends on. We provided a grant to the Processing Foundation for the ongoing development and maintenance of p5.js, the open-source library at the heart of creative coding. We supported Rhizome's digital art archiving infrastructure and its Generative Art Anthology, and we provided general support to The Infinite Node Foundation, which stewards the long-term preservation of significant digital artworks.

We also built the On-Chain Artwork Explorer, a tool that renders artworks directly from the blockchain with no external dependencies, demonstrating a durable approach to viewing and preserving on-chain generative art.

Partnership

We have brought generative art into leading cultural institutions. The Generative Art Foundation served as lead underwriter for "Electric Op" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, curated by Tina Rivers Ryan. We provided a grant to the Whitney Museum of American Art to support the presentation of generative software art, and we funded a production grant for a new generative artwork that will be donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

We supported artist commissions for the Responsive Dreams Festival at The Generative Art Museum in Barcelona and helped fund "CODE+MATTER," a group exhibition in Paris featuring four Paris-based generative artists. We serve on the Director's Innovation Circle at Haus der Kunst in Munich to advance the museum's digital initiatives, and we supported The Museum of Art and Light's annual fundraising event.

Into the Future

Our work continues. As contributions to the Foundation grow, so does our capacity to fund the artists, educators, institutions, and infrastructure that will carry generative art forward for decades to come. We invite you to be a part of our story and contribute to our future impact.