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The Gunk Foundation is a charitable operating foundation that was established in December 1994 to provide a counterbalance to the recent disturbing trends in funding for intellectual endeavors. The intellectual core in many countries has suffered a variety of setbacks over the last decademassive cutbacks in governmental support for nonmilitary noncorporate projects a conservative backlash that has effectively censored many forms of communication the spreading grip of corporate funding for all forms of intellectual production and the economic social and ideological shifts created by the forces of globalization. It is our hope that The Gunk Foundation will help to challenge some of these trends. PLEASE NOTE The Grants for Public Art Program has been temporarily suspended.