Past
Grantees

ETHEL’s Foundation for the Arts, New York City, received a one-year grant of $20,000 for ETHEL’s HomeBaked Round IV for commissioning and premieres of new work by four New York City-based early career artists.

Forecast Public Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $80,000 to support six early career Minnesota-based artists to implement a public art project or perform research and development on a public art idea in 2019 and 2020.

Four Way Books, New York City, received a one-year grant of $23,000 for the New Stars Are Born program, which will publish three debut or second collection poetry books by early career/emerging poets based in Minnesota or New York City.

Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $39,000 for the FSP/Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship Program, providing four emerging artists or artist teams from Minnesota and New Your City fellowships to create and exhibit large-scale three-dimensional artwork in 2019.

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.