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Lannan supports individuals, organizations, and public events addressing one or more of these genres: Art, Cultural Freedom, Indigenous Communities, and Literary. You are invited to explore the breadth and depth of these activities. Here is a brief description of each program area:

Art
Long recognized as a leading collector in the field, in recent years Lannan has gifted most of its extensive collection of art to various museums across the United States. You may search the entire archive by Artist, Artwork Title, or Museum recipient, with external links provided. Selected Art Program grant recipients are also presented here, reflecting Lannan’s interest in land art projects in the American West and innovative contemporary visual art projects.

Cultural Freedom
In 1999 Lannan Foundation established the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. You may read about the recipients of this prize, as well as learn about Cultural Freedom-related events sponsored by Lannan. The Foundation awarded the first Cultural Freedom Fellowship in 2003 to encourage and support leaders in American and foreign communities to contemplate, reflect, write, and study. Selected audio recordings are available here, including the essay, later published under the same title, Come September, written by Arundhati Roy and presented for the first time by her in Santa Fe in September 2002 as part of our Readings & Conversations series.

Indigenous Communities
Lannan actively supports rural Indigenous Communities working to preserve and revive traditional Native cultures and languages, to protect their legal rights, and to defend their traditional lands through environmetal protection projects. Support has ranged from helping individual Indians in a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior for trust mismanagement, to supporting premier indigenous language immersion schools across the United States. Selected grants are presented here. 

Literary
Through its Literary Program the Foundation makes annual awards and fellowships to writers, supports organizations that bring attention to the written word through writers and poets and the works they produce, and creates public literary events -please see Readings & Conversations below. The Lannan Literary Video Library was created from Readings & Conversations events. The videos are no longer in production; however you may peruse the entire Video Library here, and listen to many of them in audio format.

Readings & Conversations
The Lannan Readings & Conversations Program invites writers, poets, and social activists to Santa Fe to read and discuss their work before an audience. Some events are simulcast on public radio and each is recorded and joins the Lannan Audio Archive which currently contains hundreds of hours of the audio recordings of these sell-out events. You may also find upcoming and previous calendars, as well as ticket information here.

Residency
The Lannan residency program in Marfa, Texas, provides uninterrupted writing time for poets, writers, essayists, scholars, art curators, and activists. You may learn more about the Residency Program, often from a resident’s point of view, as well as read about upcoming and past residents here.