2023 Project Grantees

  • Courtney will be using her funds to interview and create portraits of Nueva Vida cancer survivor patients, visualizing their stories and voices, in partnership with Nueva Vida, for future exhibition as a series, "To See and Be Seen".

  • Katherine will be using her funds to implement a new installation and painting exhibition, titled "Knot Forest", at the Popcorn Gallery of Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, MD. Through the creation of mosaics, paper painting, and window installation influenced by histories of traditional Chinese ink and Buddhist landscape painting, Mann's exhibition will address her concerns with environment, maximalism, mythology, and how the contemporary Western understanding of landscape painting is circumscribed by a history of utopic, colonial images. This exhibition will include community-facing workshops, including direct participation in the installation, which will transform throughout the exhibition.

2020-22 Project Grantees

Instead of funding two projects in 2020, four projects were funded, set to incubate between 2020-2022.

  • Nastassja used her funds to build a public artwork / community-facing installation that will include engagement and programming for children.

    Production is in progress; anticipated Spring 2023.

  • Stephanie used her funds to continue La Valentina Podcast, by conducting a series of interviews that explores LATINX Contemporary Art in the USA, with a focus in the DMV area.

    A video installation was on dispaly at Eaton Hotel highlighting artists in La Valentina's series "Latin-(X)-Equis" which celebrates Latinx Artists and Art Organizers. Artists: Imogen Blue Hinojosa, Armando Lopez-Bircann, and Maria del Carmen Montoya. In collaboration with See Support Collect Women in the Arts 2021 by Latela Curatorial.

  • Sue used her fund to host a call for artists to submit their Predictions for her Buoyant Oracle public art sculpture. The participating artists’ predictions were exhibited in “Forecast” at Tephra ICA at Signature, Tephra ICA’s satellite gallery from November 3, 2022 - January 22, 2023.

    The participating artists also exhibited in “Cast/Recast” at George Mason University, first exhibited at Mason Exhibitions Arlington October 14 - December 3, 2022, next exhibited at Gillespie Gallery February 1 - March 10, 2023.

  • Tsedaye used her funds to work towards her second book, which will be filled with the voices of some of the artists’ cherished collaborators and contemporaries.

    Writing is in progress; the book is estimated to release early 2023.