Art Matters is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2015 grants to individual artists. The foundation awarded 25 grants of 5,000 and 10,000 USD for ongoing work or projects that break ground aesthetically and socially.
In addition, the foundation awarded six discretionary grants intended to catalyze momentum for projects at a critical juncture.
In announcing the grants, Art Matters Director Sacha Yanow said, “We are thrilled to support this extraordinary group of artists from across the US. Their practices are diverse, engaging issues of social justice and experimenting with form. Their voices are important and through our funding we hope to help amplify them.”
2015 grantees:
Morgan Bassichis (Brooklyn, NY)
Support for ongoing work
Blights Out (New Orleans)
Open House, a series of architectural charrettes in the Upper Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans that envisions its development
Paco Cao (Bronx, NY)
Support for ongoing work
Cog•nate Collective (Santa Ana, CA)
Expansion of Mobile Agora Project (MAP) to two other border sites: Sobreruedas Otay in Tijuana and the South Bay Swap Meet in San Diego
Karla Diaz (Wilmington, CA)
Support for ongoing work
Demian DinéYazhi’ (Portland)
Support for ongoing work
Eating in Public (Kaneohe, HI)
FREE SAMPLES (FS), a “sidewalk-to-table” edible weeds project at the Crop Shop farmers market at the Kuhio Park housing towers, the University of Hawaii campus, and other sites
LaMont Hamilton (Chicago)
Support for ongoing work
Vanessa Hernández Gracia (San Juan, PR)
Support for ongoing work
Daniel Alexander Jones (New York)
Development of DUAT, an evening-length performance piece in three parts, to premiere at Soho Rep under the direction of Will Davis
Joe Mama-Nitzberg (Catskill, NY)
Support for ongoing work
Park McArthur (New York)
Development of two upcoming solo exhibitions (SFMOMA and the Jewish Museum, New York) that expand the artist’s sculptural work and writing
Azikiwe Mohammed (New York)
Support for ongoing work
Alan Nakagawa (Los Angeles)
RESONANCE: HIROSHIMA/WENDOVER, a sound and video project involving the atomic bomb that connects the Hiroshima Atomic Dome to the Wendover Hangar in Utah
Eiko Otake (New York)
A Body in Places, a series of intimate solo performances
Carl Pope (Indianapolis)
Support for ongoing work
Cameron Rowland (New York)
Support for ongoing work
Sable Elyse Smith (New York)
Support for ongoing work
Sharita Towne (Portland)
Support for ongoing work
Allison Warden (Anchorage, AK)
Support for ongoing work
Marie Watt (Portland)
Support for ongoing work
Faith Wilding (Providence, RI)
Travel to Paraguay, where the artist was born, to research and record ecological destruction due to GMO mono-crops
Fletcher Williams (North Charleston, SC)
Support for ongoing work
Rosten Woo (Los Angeles)
Support for ongoing work
Lauren Woods (Dallas)
Support for ongoing work
2015 discretionary grantees:
Chances Dances (Chicago)
Platforms: 10 Years of Chances, a citywide series of exhibitions, performances, panels and interventions
Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel (New York)
Happy Birthday, Marsha!—a film about legendary transgender artist and activist, Marsha P. Johnson and her life in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall Riots in NYC
Janet Henry (Queens, NY)
Development of the Hoodie Project
John Kelly (New York)
Recreation of the artist’s performance Love of a Poet as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s River to River Festival
Los Dos (El Paso, TX)
Support for ongoing work
Julie Tolentino (Los Angeles)
Development of the Clit Club Book Project
For more information on Art Matters, please visit www.artmattersfoundation.org.
