Interlace
\ in-tər-ˈlās \ to cross one another, typically passing alternately over and under, as if woven together; to diversify, as with threads woven in; to unite or cooperatively arrange (strips, parts, branches, etc.); intertwine; blend; intersperse; intermingle.
Our Mission
Interlace Grant Fund supports Providence-area visual artists.
The Interlace Grant Fund’s mission is to support Providence-area visual artists by providing grants, programming, and other resources. Interlace strives to be responsive to artists’ needs and advocates for stronger relationships among artists and between artists and audiences. In this spirit, Interlace commits to thoughtful support for artists that expands audiences, collaboration, and accessibility while fostering artists’ growth and raising up locally relevant works.
Interlace recognizes the many structural barriers that prevent local artists’ access to funding, support, and safety nets. Interlace Project Grants provide up to $6,000 for artist-led projects. Emergency Grants provide up to $500 to artists experiencing financial hardship.
Who We Are
Interlace Grant Fund was cofounded in 2020 by Dirt Palace Public Projects (DPPP) and Providence College Galleries (PCG) as part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program. The DPPP/PCG partnership concluded in 2024 and DPPP currently administers all Interlace programs.
Jori Ketten is Program Manager for Interlace.
Dirt Palace Public Projects [DPPP] is the not-for-profit umbrella for various arts programs and projects, including Dirt Palace, a feminist artist-run space founded in 2000 in an abandoned library building in the commercial corridor of Olneyville in Providence. DPPP’s mission is to enhance the cultural life of Providence by creating visibility for feminist artists and people historically marginalized within the arts. DPPP offers artist residencies, affordable studio space, facilities, shared resources, opportunities, a culture of cooperation, and maintains visibility in the community through a committed public arts presence and long-term relationships.
Xander Marro and Pippi Zornoza, DPPP Co-Directors, are Co-Founders and Administrators of Interlace.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program supports the creation of independent, non-traditional, public-facing artists’ projects by partnering with leading cultural institutions in communities across the country. This national network includes Regranting Programs in thirty-two cities, including Mobile (AL), Albuquerque (NM), Atlanta (GA), Baltimore (MD), Chicago (IL), Cleveland (OH), Denver (CO), Detroit (MI), Houston (TX), Indianapolis (IN), Kansas City (MO), Los Angeles (CA), Miami (FL), Milwaukee (WI), Minneapolis (MN), Nashville (TN), New Orleans (LA), Newark (NJ), Oklahoma City (OK), Omaha (NE), Philadelphia (PA), Phoenix & Tucson (AZ), Portland (ME), Portland (OR), Providence (RI), Raleigh & Greensboro (NC), Saint Louis (MO), San Francisco (CA), San Juan (PR), Seattle (WA), and Washington, DC.
Priorities
Interlace supports...
Visual artists and their work and well-being.
Timeliness / relevance. Work that impacts artists and audiences by engaging with ideas that are pressing and connected to their lives in this time and place. Projects that have the potential to forward artists’ careers.
Accessibility that values the public and prioritizes participation and inclusion of diverse communities and differently-abled people. Accessibility that has a quality of openness and considers the needs of audiences.
A framework of collaboration, with people, places, objects, or histories. Work grounded in relationships.
Risk-taking. Artists challenging themselves through engagement with new practices, media, new dialogues with audiences, ideas, and community .
Commitment to community: projects that consider neighborhoods, regional histories, civic life, and the local.