the High Museum of Art In Atlanta she gave 2023 David C. Driskill Award for the artist Ebony G Patterson, which is based in Chicago and Kingston, Jamaica. Named after the legendary art historian, curator, and artist who curated the watershed exhibition “Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750-1955” in 1976, the $50,000 prize goes to “an innovative or mid-career scholar or artist.” and a significant contribution to the field of African American art or art history,” according to a statement.
Patterson is known for her large-scale Baroque installations that collect beads, tapestry, toys, archival photographs, and more. Her work is included in the collections of major art institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Perez Museum of Art in Miami, the Whitney Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and Speed Art. Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. The High recently got its 2018 year . . . They stood in the time of ignorance. . . to those who testify After being included in a group show there last year.
Patterson will be the subject of solo exhibitions at the New York Botanical Garden in the spring and at the Arnolfini Museum in Bristol in 2025. Her work is currently on display in “Forecasting Model: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, from the 1990s to Today” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, which will then travel through the two years The two new ones. She was recently named Co-Artistic Director, along with Artistic Coordinator Miranda Lash, of Prospect 6 in 2024.
Past winners of the Driskill Prize include artists Xaviera Simmons, Rashid Johnson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mark Bradford, Amy Sherald and Jamal de Creus, as well as curators Kelly Jones, Franklin Sirmans, Valerie Cassell Oliver and Naima J.
Rand Suffolk, director of the High Museum, said in a statement: “Paterson’s stunning work commemorates the lives and struggles of marginalized people around the world. In doing so, she asks viewers to consider difficult questions of social and racial inequality globally. We are honored to acknowledge her significant practice and significant contributions to African-American art through the 2023 Drriskell Award.”
The nonprofit organization based in New York creative capital Named 50 projects (by 66 artists) that will receive funding of up to $50,000 2023 Awards “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact”, totaling more than $2.5 million in support. Grants are awarded in three categories – Technology, Performing Arts, and Literature – with an emphasis on social and interdisciplinary projects. Although they are technically awarded on the basis of project proposals, grants are unrestricted and may be used “for any purpose to advance the project, including, but not limited to, studio space, housing, groceries, employment, childcare, equipment, appliances, Computer and travel, ”according to a statement.
Seventy-five percent of the winning artists are BIPOC. 59 percent are women, cisgender, or nonbinary; and 10% are disabled artists. The artists range in age from 25 to 69 and are located across the United States, as well as Cambodia, Burkina Faso, Germany, and Japan. Among the artists who will receive funding on this tour are: Anika YeAnd Ron AthyAnd Xandra IbarraAnd KiteAnd Pamela SneedAnd lisenbo (Liz Ferrer and Bo Tai). The full list of winners and more information about their projects can be accessed at Creative Capital website.
still who Spectacle I: Dominatriz del Barrio (2002/2014) by Xandra Ibarra, 2023 Creative Capital Grant Recipient and Eureka Fellow.
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“The 2023 projects deal creatively, innovatively and poetically with the pressing issues shaping our world today, with a particular focus on the health of our bodies and our planet – from carbon offsets and the voice of the climate crisis, to calls for reparations and reforms,” said Alisa Schwartz, director of artist initiatives at Creative Capital, in a statement. Statement Indigenous societies, to robots and the lamentation of automation, insomnia, pharmaceutical intervention, and the interconnectedness of AIDS, COVID-19, and other epidemics.
Del Barrio Museum In new york partnered with Maestro Dobel Tequila to create semi-annual Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize, which aims to “raise awareness and amplify the cultural output of Latino artists, a segment that has historically been underrepresented in the art world at large,” according to the publication. The prize will come in the amount of $50,000 and the first winner will be announced in the fall. In a statement, the CEO of El Museo said Patrick Charpinel He said, “We are delighted to partner with Maestro Dobel on this important initiative that highlights the amazing diversity of Latino cultural production in the United States. El Museo del Barrio continues to lead vital and much-needed conversations about the importance of representation in the art world. We hope the award will advance and encourage meaningful dialogue Concerning Latino Art and Its Important Role in the American Art Canon.”
Non-profit healthcare organization based in Nairobi Amref Health Africa will give her Rees Visionary Award New York-based artist Julie Mihreto in its annual session ArtBall It happened on February 25th. The award is given to artists who “create exceptional work that educates, inspires, and encourages the viewer during these challenging times,” according to the publication. Previous honorees include Wangichi Muto, El Anatsui, Tuen Ojih Odottola, and Zaniel Moholi.
Edra Soto is the winner in 2022 Ree Kaneko Awardwhich is provided by Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, in honor of the organization’s founder and first executive director. The prize is $25,000 and is given to an artist who has exhibited at the Bemis Center previously; Soto was included in the Museum’s 2017-18 group exhibition Kings: Brown Artists and Contemporary Indigenous Artists in the Butterfly Way. Calling this presentation a “highlight of my career,” Soto said in a statement, “What Bemis envisions and supports through curatorial projects and a residency program has propelled many artistic careers nationally over the years. I couldn’t be more Proud to receive this prestigious award.”
Dominic White Can we be known without being hunted down?2022.
Photo: Aurélien Mole Courtesy Triangle – Asterides, VEDA Firenze and artist
Selected through an open call process, Dominic White is the winner in 2022 Foundwork Artist Awardwhich comes with $10,000 and a studio visit with each of the five jury members. Eva LangretThe jury member and director of Frieze London said in a statement: “We were particularly struck by the formal sensitivity of Dominique White’s work, and their engagement with complex ideas about myth, maritime history and colonial past. Follow up on their work in the months and years to come.”
the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation He named the 20 artists to be awarded 2022 Biennial Scholarships, which comes with an unrestricted portfolio of $20,000 to produce a new work that will then be documented in a catalog to be published in the spring. Grants are now administered by National Academy of Design. Among the winners Farah Al QasimiAnd Nikita GillAnd Mark Thomas GibsonAnd Bao HareAnd Ronnie QuevedoAnd Didier William. The full list of winners can be found at Enterprise website.
the YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Awardvalued at $25,000, to a multidisciplinary Miami artist and designer Cornelius TullochIn a statement, Tulloch said, “It’s one thing to have a creative voice and vision, but it’s something else to have a creative voice heard and to see that vision. YoungArts did exactly that for me. To know it is For nearly a decade, this organization has shown me how important my unique creativity is to the world and has given me encouragement to continue sharing my gifts and talents.”
Gordon Parks Foundation Fellows (from left): Jimmy Holmes, Jose Parla, and Melanie C. Harvey.
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Fellowships
the Gordon Parks Foundation I named the three recipients of the 2023 Fellowship. They are Jimmy Holmes And Jose Parlawho will be fellow artists, art historians, and scholars Melanie C Harvey, who is Genevieve’s young writing classmate. Each recipient will receive $25,000. The CEO of the foundation said in a statement Peter W. Kunhardt Jr.He said, “This year’s Art Fellows are illustrators whose work moves Gordon Parks’ legacy forward in important ways, while the Melanie Writing Fellowship project at Howard University provides important new historical context for his work.”
Based in San Francisco Flyshaker Foundation Announced the 12 winners in its next three sessions (2023, 2024 and 2025) Eureka Fellowship Program, which comes in the amount of $35,000 for Bay Area artists to “continue to live and create art,” according to the publication. Among the winning artists Sadie Barnett (2024), Emory Douglas (2023) and Xandra Ibarra (2023). The full list of winners can be accessed at Fleshcare Foundation website.
open calls
NXTHVN, the closely watched residency program founded by Titus Kavar and Jason Price in New Haven, Connecticut, is accepting applications for studio and curatorial fellows through February 27. Fellows receive studio or office space, a stipend, subsidized housing, as well as a mentorship-driven curriculum that includes professional development sessions. Interested parties can apply to NXTHVN website.
Indigenous-led arts organization Forge Project In Mahicannituck River Valley, New York, is accepting applications for 2023 Fellowships from Indigenous artists, scholars, curators, cultural workers, researchers, and educators to create a group of six Indigenous Fellows; Two will be awarded to the members of the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohican Indians, on which the ancestral Forge Project is located. Each fellow will receive $25,000, and the application deadline is February 15th. More information can be found at Forge Project website Requests can be submitted by sending the table.
The legendary New York nonprofit Franklin oven Will accept his requests Fund for the Performing Arts From February 1st to April 1st. Started in 1985 with the Jerome Foundation, the grants are for early-career artists who will present new work of performance art in New York City. An information session on the application process will be held on February 22, and interested applicants can apply via Franklin Furnace website.
For its thirteenth season at Cherry Grove on Fire Island, the Fire Island Artist Residency He accepts requests until April 15th. The four-week residency is open to emerging visual artists who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, bisexual, bi-soul, or queer.