Past
Grantees

Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, New York, received a two-year grant of $60,000 for the Franklin Furnace Fund, a program serving early career artists from New York City or Minnesota selected by peer panel review for year-long grants to produce new major works of performance art in New York in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Gibney Dance, New York City, received a two-year grant of $50,000 to support the Making Space EA+ Program for 6 early career artists to develop and premiere new evening-length work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $23,000 to support the editing, marketing, and full publication of books by two New York City-based writers: Wayétu Moore’s She Would Be King and Oculus by Sally Wen Mao.

Harlem Stage (Aaron Davis Hall), New York City, received a one-year grant of $25,000 to support the Fund for New Work: commissions for 7–10 New York City-based early career artists to create, develop, and present new work.

Harvestworks, New York City, received a one-year grant of $17,000 in support of creative residencies for early career/emerging artists to research, develop, create and present new work.

HERE, New York City, received a one-year grant of $22,000 for the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), serving up to 11 multi-disciplinary artists (or artist teams) in their 2- to 3-year process to develop and premiere their full-length productions.

The artist will travel to Seville, Spain for 62 days to study interpretations of "cante jondo" or "deep song" through flamenco dance.

Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $40,000 for its Jerome Emerging Printmakers Residency for three emerging artists each year to develop, create, and exhibit new work in 2018-2019 and 2019–2020.

The artist will travel to Panama City, Panama for 90 days. Holnes will interview family members in Panama about their experiences of Operation Just Cause (the US Invasion of Panama to remove General Manuel Noriega from power) as inspiration for a book of poems about Panama and family.

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT), Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $50,000 for the Puppet Lab Program, a 6-month mentorship program for four early career Minnesota-based artists or artist teams to create new puppet performance in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Brooklyn, New York, received a two-year grant of $40,000 to support six (three per year) early career New York City-based composers for year-long collaborative residencies to commission, develop, and perform innovative new works through the OpenICE program.

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), Jamaica, New York, received a two-year grant of $60,000 for the Artist Residency & Training Workshop Inc. (ARTWorks, Inc.), a 10-month residency and professional development training for early career/emerging and underrepresented visual artists in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

James Sewell Ballet, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $17,000 to support the development and premiere of new work by two Minnesota or New York City-based early career choreographers in 2019.

The Jazz Gallery, New York City, received a two-year grant of $80,000 for the Residency Commission Program, granting six New York City-based early-career artists season-long residencies to research, compose, workshop, and premiere new works in 2018–19 and 2019–20. The composers to be supported in 2018–19 are saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, pianist Shai Maestro, and guitarist-vocalist Camila Meza.

The artist will travel to Dusseldorf, Germany for 8 days to attend European Buck Session's 11th year anniversary gathering (E.B.S.), an annual Krump dance event in Germany.

The artist will travel to Kathmandu, Nepal for 30 days. Joshi plans to research the internationally infamous “Royal Hotel” in Kathmandu, Nepal and the role it played in Nepal’s transformation from a closed kingdom to a colonial fantasy land in the 1950s. He is working on a new film that features the Hotel’s rise to fame and it’s eventual demise.

The artist will travel to Guangzhou and Fujian provinces, China for 17 days. Kamps will experience cross-cultural immersion as a form of research to complete his novel Drawing Water.

The artist will  travel to Seoul and Gwangju, South Korea for 31 days. Key will research the false national media coverage and news suppression during the Gwangju Uprising (a historic revolt in 1980 against South Korea's militarized regime that sparked the nation’s democratization movement), as well as collect oral histories from surviving members of her family in Gwangju who witnessed the event.

The artists will travel to Northwestern Ontario for research and development on a feature film about the groundbreaking and turbulent life of legendary Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau (1931 - 2007).

The Kitchen, New York City, received a one-year grant of $26,000 for the Multidisciplinary Commissions Program for New York City-based early career artists to create and present new work in visual arts, dance, music, and theater in 2018–19. The commissioned artists are Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Moriah Evans, Leila Bordreuil, and Morgan Bassichis.