EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The University of Texas at El Paso's (UTEP) Rubin Center for the Visual Arts has been awarded a multi-year grant by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the fifth time. The $100,000 grant is to support upcoming exhibitions and continue the Rubin Center's role as a hub for contemporary art in El Paso, according to UTEP's news release. A visitor takes in an art exhibition, called Tiempo Libre, at The University of Texas at El Paso’s Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. Credit: The University of Texas at El PasoIn the summer of 2023, UTEP’s Rubin Center for the Visual Arts hosted the exhibition Instant Exposure: A Habit of Documenting, which featured polaroids taken by acclaimed visual artist Andy Warhol. The polaroids were a gift to the Rubin Center from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Credit: Julio Barrera “We are grateful for the many ways the Warhol Foundation has supported our contemporary exhibitions and programming over the years,” said Rubin Center Director Kerry Doyle. “This grant recognizes a new era at the Rubin Center under the curatorial vision of Dr. Laura Augusta, and deepens our understanding of this place through expanded discourse and engagement with a broader concept of the Americas.” The Warhol Foundation is continuing the grant at UTEP to "focus on the historical interdependence between the U.S. and Central America in fields as diverse as agriculture and armed conflict, as well as the impact of geography, climate, and economic precarity on the visual arts at the U.S./Mexico border," UTEP said in their news release. “Artists are at the center of all of our grantmaking efforts; we seek to uplift organizations and institutions that consistently amplify artists’ voices and facilitate artists’ visions,” said Joel Wachs, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. “The voices of artists keep our cultural conversations dynamic and evolving; their unique perspectives resist the stagnation that comes with polarization and suggest new ways of moving into and through turbulent times.” The Rubin Center, located at 500 W. University Ave., has included series of artist micro-residencies with exhibitions such as "Mud+Corn+Stone+Blue," an exhibition on the Salvadoran diaspora in the U.S., and solo exhibitions that practitioners worked across the region of Central America, according to UTEP. For more information about the Rubin Center and for upcoming exhibitions, visit their website here.