Emergency Grants
Abang-guard
Visual Arts
Brooklyn, NY
2025
Abang-guard, a duo of artists Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug, received a grant in February to present Makibaka at the Queens Museum in Queens, NY, on view March 16-October 5.
Panteha Abareshi
Visual Arts
Tucson, AZ
2025
Panteha Abareshi, a multidisciplinary artist, received a grant in February to participate in Other body, a group exhibition at Fuglsang Kunstmuseum in Toreby, Denmark, on view March 23-August 17.
Yael Acher Modiano
Music/Sound
New York, NY
2025
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, a flutist and composer, received a grant in January to present performances at the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival at Cinemateket, Danish Film Institute and KoncertKapellet in Roskilde, Denmark on January 22, 24, and 29.
Linda Austin
Dance
Portland, OR
2025
Linda Austin, a dancer and choreographer, received a grant in January to present In Preparation for Disappearances to Come at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, OR, with performances February 6-8.
Valentina Baché Rodríguez
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2025
Valentina Baché Rodríguez, a choreographer and performer, received a grant in March to present Angel Mid-Swing// It boils from within at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY, with performances April 24-26 and as part of the Estrogenius Festival at Judson Memorial Church in New York, NY on May 8.
Emily Barasch
Dance
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Emily Barasch, a choreographer and educator, received a grant in March to present Intimacy for the Apocalypse at Human Resources in Los Angeles, CA, with performances May 8-10.
Vi Bui
Visual Arts
Brooklyn, NY
2025
Vi Bui, a photographer and filmmaker, received a grant in March to present Thời Thơ Ấu (Childhood) in Hoa Tay (Flower Hands), a group exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA, on view March 14-September 21.
CFGNY
Visual Arts
Brooklyn, NY
2025
CFGNY, a collective comprised of artists Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen, received a grant in March to present Continuous Fractures Generating New Yields, a solo exhibition at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, on view April 4-September 7.
Caye Castagnetto
Performance Art/Theater
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Caye Castagnetto, an artist and musician, received a grant in April to present RHINO, Put your Hand Inside the Puppet Head at New Theater Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA, with performances April 24-27.
San Cha
Performance Art/Theater
Alhambra, CA
2025
San Cha, a composer, musician, and performance artist, received a grant in April to present Inebria me at Performance Space New York in New York, NY, with performances May 16-18.
Jiayi Chen
Visual Arts
Chicago, IL
2025
Jiayi Chen, an artist, projectionist, and archivist, received a grant in February to present As a Tree Walks to Its Forest, a solo exhibition organized by Open AIR Montana at Bob’s Your Uncle in Missoula, MT, on view March 7-29.
Laura Cocks
Music/Sound
Brooklyn, NY
2025
Laura Cocks, a flutist, received a grant in January to present the album release tour for Music for Two Flutes to Default in Den Haag, Netherlands; In Vitro in Brussels, Belgium; Hundred Years Gallery in London, United Kingdom; Old Hairdressers in Glasgow, Scotland; Shakespeare’s in Sheffield, United Kingdom; Rammel Club in Nottingham, United Kingdom; Wharf Chambers in Leeds, United Kingdom; and City University in London, United Kingdom, with performances February 12-21.
Abigail Raphael Collins
Visual Arts
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Abigail Raphael Collins, an experimental documentary and video artist, received a grant in April to present BLACKOUT, a solo exhibition at REDCAT in Los Angeles, CA, on view May 22-August 10.
Cornelius
Performance Art/Theater
San Francisco, CA
2025
Cornelius, a conceptual artist, received a grant in April to present boycow at CounterPulse in San Francisco, CA, with performances April 17-19.
Carlo Costa
Music/Sound
Brooklyn, NY
2025
Carlo Costa, a percussionist, drummer, and composer, received a grant in January to present a tour with his quartet Diaphane to Les Temps du Corp in Paris, France; Das Institut in Zurich, Switzerland; Le Frigo in Biel, Switzerland; Mullbau in Lucerne, Switzerland; Subsol in Düsseldorf, Germany; ORT in Wuppertal, Germany; Black Box in Münster, Germany; Capelle Hospitalis in Bielefeld, Germany; Loft in Cologne, Germany; and Buckblech in Saarbrücken, Germany, with performances January 12-23.
Jessie Cox
Music/Sound
Cambridge, MA
2025
Jessie Cox, a composer, drummer, and scholar, received a grant in April to present Enter the Impossible in the 2025 MATA Festival at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn, NY on June 11.
Lu Coy
Performance Art/Theater
Los Angeles
2025
Lu Coy, a mixed-media artist and musician, received a grant in February to present Becoming the Moon at the OUTsider festival in Austin, TX on February 21.
Eva Davidova
Visual Arts
New York, NY
2025
Eva Davidova, a visual artist, received a grant in April to present Things As They Are in How to See in the Dark, a four-person group exhibition at Co-Prosperity in Chicago, IL, on view May 2-June 6.
Debit
Music/Sound
Brooklyn, NY
2025
Delia Beatriz, an electronic music composer who performs as Debit, received a grant in March to present Sequedad Sobrenaturalizada (Supernaturalized Silence) at Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, Mexico, on view March 25-April 6, with a concert on April 4.
Ekaterina Derysheva
Poetry
Philadelphia, PA
2025
Ekaterina Derysheva, a poet, received a grant in January to present a reading as part of Dispersed Poetics: Signifying Non-Solutions in Time of War at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY on February 22.
