The Warhol Foundation has awarded a $50,000 curatorial fellowship grant to the Manetti Shrem Museum and independent curator and Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies Susette Min and contemporary art writer, juror and lecturer Amy Sadao.

The “Abolition of a Category” project started with an open invitation Min and Sadao issued in The Brooklyn Rail in 2022 urging a collective rethinking of the category of Asian American art and how it’s presented. Among their many questions: “How might we figure Asian American art as bringing on a new system that reveals and revels in decolonial arrangements and projects already underway, and/or makes room for new alliances, unexpected juxtapositions, connections, tensions, and dynamic collaborations?”

The grant allows Min and Sadao to further explore these and other questions and work toward a future project to be presented at the Manetti Shrem Museum.