{"id":1501,"date":"2022-04-18T01:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2022-04-18T01:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:33:43","slug":"amy-sherald-puts-1-m-toward-student-grant-programs-in-breonna-taylors-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/amy-sherald-puts-1-m-toward-student-grant-programs-in-breonna-taylors-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Sherald Puts $1 M. Toward Student Grant Programs in Breonna Taylor\u2019s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_amy-sherald\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"amy-sherald\">Amy Sherald<\/a>\u00a0has given $1 million to the University of Louisville to establish two grant programs in\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_breonna-taylor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"breonna-taylor\">Breonna Taylor<\/a>\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>The funds came from the sale of her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">ethereal portrait of Taylor<\/a>, which first graced the cover of\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>. The painting was jointly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">acquired<\/a>\u00a0by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and is now on view at the former institution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing can take away the injustice of Breonna Taylor\u2019s death,\u201d the university\u2019s interim vice president for community engagement, Douglas Craddock Jr., said in a statement. \u201cBut what we must do is create spaces where Breonna Taylor is remembered and where her legacy can inspire us to carry on the hard work of erasing inequality and divisiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Brandeis Law School\u2019s Breonna Taylor Legacy Fellowship will award stipends of $9,000 to each of its three recipients. Meanwhile, the Breonna Taylor Legacy Scholarship is open to up to four undergraduates, each of whom will receive $7,000 on a staggered scheduled within the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>Both programs were made possible from distributions from the trust Sherald established through the sale of the painting to help \u201cunblock the challenges historically faced by students pursuing the work of social justice and public service,\u201d according to the artist.<\/p>\n<p>Breonna Taylor was killed on March 13, 2020, by Louisville police officers who illegally entered her apartment. They fired blindly at the 26-year-old emergency medical worker and her boyfriend. Taylor\u2019s name became a rallying cry in the Black Lives Matter protests that later spread to cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, the guest editor for\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>\u2019s special edition on the protests in September 2020, commissioned Sherald to paint Taylor for the cover. It was the second major commission for the American artist, following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sherald was adamant that the portrait be acquired by a public collection in Taylor\u2019s hometown of Louisville. It was purchased with a $1 million joint donation from the Ford Foundation and the Hearthland Foundation, a new nonprofit dedicated to social justice that is run by the actress Kate Capshaw and her husband Steven Spielberg.<\/p>\n<p>In an unusual move, Sherald directly oversaw the sale in lieu of her gallery, Hauser &amp; Wirth.<\/p>\n<p>The painting was featured in the Speed\u2019s exhibition dedicated to Taylor, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Promise, Witness, Remembrance<\/a>,\u201d organized by Allison Glenn, associate curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, in consultation with Taylor\u2019s family and an advisory board that included Sherald, Theaster Gates, and Hank Willis Thomas. The work later traveled to the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>Sherald worked closely with Taylor\u2019s mother, Tamika Palmer, to create the tribute, and drew inspiration photographs of Taylor\u2019s personal belongings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">taken by LaToya Ruby Frazier<\/a>. Taylor was represented in a graceful blue gown by Jasmine Elder, the founder of an Atlanta-based label, and wearing the engagement ring her boyfriend planned to propose with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made this portrait for her family,\u201d Sherald told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 2021. \u201cProducing this image keeps Breonna alive forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist\u00a0Amy Sherald\u00a0has given $1 million to the University of Louisville to establish two grant programs in\u00a0Breonna Taylor\u2019s name. The funds came from the sale of her\u00a0ethereal portrait of Taylor, which first graced the cover of\u00a0Vanity Fair. The painting was jointly\u00a0acquired\u00a0by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amy Sherald Puts $1 M. 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