23 artists have been selected in an unusual program Rolex started in 2002 that pairs developing artists with masters over the course of a year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/arts/10ment.html?ref=arts
At about $100K/pop, looks like there’s money out there for artist cultivation. Interesting to consider the different thresholds required (“cost per artist” for instance) for federal verses corporate funding of arts programs…—–