Emergency Grants
Stephanie Acosta
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2021
Stephanie Acosta, an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, received a grant in April to present Good Day God Damn at The Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City, May 15-June 6.
Nahshon Anderson
Performance Art/Theater
Los Angeles, CA
2021
Nahshon Dion Anderson, a writer and performer, received a grant in March to present Honoring our Trancestors virtually on March 31.
Trevor Bazile
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2021
Trevor Bazile, an interdisciplinary artist and director, received a grant in April to present ACT 1, PROLOGUE: BACKWOODS at the Next Waves Theater at Volksbühne Theater in Berlin, May 21-31.
Sonya Belaya
Music/Sound
Brooklyn, NY
2021
Sonya Belaya, a musician and composer, received a grant in June to present Cognitive Distortions / Ancestral Patterns at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY, on June 25.
Sula Bermudez-Silverman
Visual Arts
Altadena, CA
2021
Sula Bermudez-Silverman, a multidisciplinary artist and sculptor, received a grant in February to present To Fear a Painted Devil at Murmurs in Los Angeles, on view March 6-April 10.
Jessica Blinkhorn
Performance Art/Theater
Atlanta, GA
2021
Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn, a performance artist, received a grant in March to present The Normal Depot: The Cost of Being Normal in Art in Odd Places 2021: Normal on May 14.
J. Bouey
Dance
Brooklyn, NY
2021
J. Bouey, a choreographer and dancer, received a grant in May to present Chiron in Leo virtually, co-presented by Gibney in New York, NY, and JACK in Brooklyn, NY, with virtual performances May 28-29.
Crystal Z. Campbell
Visual Arts
Oklahoma City, OK
2021
Crystal Z. Campbell, a visual artist, received a grant in April to present Notes From Black Wall Street (Or How to Project Yourself into the Future) at ahha in Tulsa, OK, May 7-July 25.
Ellen Christi
Music/Sound
New York, NY
2021
Ellen Christi, a musician and composer, received in grant in May to conduct a three-city tour with her trio, The Baldwin Expansion Project, at Rhizome in Washington, DC, Henry Wong’s An die Musik in Mount Vernon, MD, and ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn, NY, with performances July 17-August 15.
Janessa Clark
Dance
Brooklyn, NY
2021
Janessa Clark, a dancer and choreographer, received a grant in February to present COMMUNION at HERE Arts Center, in New York, with weekly screenings February 5-July 1.
Kristina Cole
Dance
Astoria, NY
2021
Kristina Cole, a choreographer and dancer, received a grant in May to present It’s a Shame... in the A+J Summer Happening Festival in New York, NY, with outdoor performances June 10-18.
Zorica Colic
Visual Arts
New York, NY
2021
Zorica Colic, a sculptor and installation and video artist, received a grant in April to present Cutaneous Vision in the group exhibition Shifting Sands at ChaShaMa in New York, May 14-June 10.
Maureen Connor, Kadambari Baxi, and Landon Newton
Visual Arts
New York, NY
2021
Maureen Connor, Kadambari Baxi, and Landon Newton, visual and installation artists, received a grant in May to present Found (abortion) Monument in the land-based exhibition Owning Earth at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz, NY, on view June 26-September 31, 2022.
Hoesy Corona
Visual Arts
Tulsa, OK
2021
Hoesy Corona, an installation, performance, and video artist, received a grant in May to present Sunset Moonlight at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, on view May 27-July 18.
Lizania Cruz
Visual Arts
Brooklyn, NY
2021
Lizania Cruz, a visual and performance artist, received a grant in April to present In Search of Motives at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, April 23-May 25.
Rachelle Dang and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Visual Arts
Brooklyn, NY
2021
Rachelle Dang and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow (Brooklyn, NY), visual and performance artists, received a grant in March to present Daughters of Lam at Five Myles in Brooklyn, NY, on view April 24-May 30.
Maria De Los Angeles
Visual Arts
Jersey City, NJ
2021
Maria De Los Angeles, a visual artist, received a grant in March to install a two-person exhibition at the Instituto Cultural de Mexico at the Mexican Consulate of Miami in Miami, FL, on view April 1-May 14.
Jeremy Dean
Visual Arts
Princeville, HI
2021
Jeremy Dean, a sculptor, filmmaker, and multimedia artist, received a grant in February to present Neither I, Nor Time, Nor History at MOCA Jacksonville in Jacksonville, FL, on view February 19-May 19.
Elena Demyanenko
Dance
Brooklyn, NY
2021
Elena Demyanenko, a dancer and choreographer, received a grant in February to present welter at Roulette, in Brooklyn, with live-streamed performances March 10-12.
Eseosa Edebiri
Visual Arts
Chicago, IL
2021
Eseosa Edebiri, a digital, text, and textile artist, received a grant in February to present the Akugbe series in the group exhibition Diasporic Futurism Pt. II at Root Division in San Francisco, CA, on view February 1-27.