VIA Grantee Tavares Strachan’s (@tavaresstrachan) first museum exhibition in Los Angeles, “The Day Tomorrow Began,” opened last weekend at the Los Angeles Museum of Art (@lacma) and runs through March 29, 2026. The show invites viewers into immersive multisensory installations; each of the rooms presents a distinct environment, from uncanny everyday spaces to a field of rice grass populated with ceramic figures to a gallery of monumental bronze sculptures. Strachan is interested in what has been rendered invisible within mainstream narratives, particularly related to the Black diaspora. His singular artworks—across media including neon, sculpture, painting, text, music, and performance—illuminate stories through which new ideas can emerge. #VIAArtFund #VIAGrantees #TavaresStrachan #TheDayTomorrowBegan #LACMA #LosAngelesCountyMuseumofArt #contemporaryart #installation #exhibition #neon #sculpture #painting #text #music #performance (fb)

Congratulations to VIA grantees Garrett Bradley and Tuan Andrew Nguyen on recieving 2025 MacArthur Genius Awards! The MacArthur Fellows Program aims to identify extraordinarily creative individuals with a track record of excellence in a field of scholarship or area of practice, who demonstrate the ability to impact society in significant and beneficial ways through their pioneering work or the rigor of their contributions. Bradley is an artist and filmmaker blending elements of documentary, narrative, and experimental cinema to explore questions of justice, public memory, and cultural visibility. Garrett Bradley was awarded a VIA Artistic Production Grant in 2022 to present her collaborative project with Arthur Jafa titled “A Negro, A Lim-o.” Tuan Andrew Nguyen is a multidisciplinary artist giving aesthetic form to the enduring repercussions of violence and dispossession. He grounds his films and sculptures in the histories of communities grappling with intergenerational traumas of war and displacement, in places ranging from his native Vietnam to the Philippines, Senegal, Papua New Guinea, and the United States. Nguyen was awarded a VIA Artistic Production Grant in 2020 for his project “Crimes of Solidarity / Crimes de Solidarité” shown at the Manifesta 13 Biennale. #viagrantees #viaartfund #macarthurgenius #macarthurfellow #macarthurfoundation #tuanandrewnguyen #garrettbradley #philanthropy #contemporaryart #manifesta (fb)