| \n Art Matters is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2016 grants to individual artists. The foundation awarded 26 grants of 5,000 and 10,000 USD for projects and ongoing work that breaks ground aesthetically and socially.<\/p>\n In addition to grants to individuals, Art Matters made a special grant to Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for\u00a0Michael Richards: Winged<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0an exhibition of work by Richards, a 1995 grantee, who died tragically in his LMCC studio in the World Trade Center on 9\/11.<\/p>\nIn announcing the grants, Art Matters Director Sacha Yanow said, \u201cWe are thrilled to support this extraordinary group of artists from across the U.S. Their practices are diverse, engaging issues of social justice and experimenting with form. We feel their voices are particularly important at this moment in the world, and through our funding we hope to help amplify them.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n2016 Grantees:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| \n Sandra Haydee Alonso\u00a0<\/strong>(El Paso, TX)
\nWearable sculptural works that question borders, identity, and relationships.<\/p>\nKatrina Andry\u00a0<\/strong>(New Orleans, LA)
\nOngoing printmaking work involving vignettes that challenge racial stereotyping.<\/p>\nSadie Barnette\u00a0<\/strong>(Oakland, CA)
\nWork based on the FBI files and COINTELPRO\u2019s surveillance of the artist’s father and his activities with the Black Panthers.<\/p>\nBlack Salt Collective\u00a0<\/strong>
\n(Oakland\/Los Angeles, CA)
\nOngoing performance and archiving work of this Black, Brown and Indigenous women artist collective.<\/p>\nFrank Chi\u00a0<\/strong>(Washington DC)
\nNew short film that remixes imagery from the women’s suffrage movement.<\/p>\nComplex Movements\u00a0<\/strong>(Detroit, MI)
\nOngoing multi-media performance and installation work engaging community-led social justice movements in Detroit and beyond.<\/p>\nMichelle Dizon\u00a0<\/strong>(Los Angeles, CA)
\nThe Archive’s Fold<\/em>, an artist\u2019s book that explores the politics of archives.<\/p>\nSkylar Fein\u00a0<\/strong>(New Orleans, LA)
\nOngoing work with Parisite, a community-based New Orleans skate park, and the youth who built it.<\/p>\nFORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture\u00a0<\/strong>(Baltimore, MD)
\nNuestra Tierra, Mi Cuerpo<\/em>, a\u00a0Monument Quilt<\/em>\u00a0display at the US\/Mexico border in collaboration with La Casa Mandarina and Latinx survivors of rape and abuse.<\/p>\nVanessa German\u00a0<\/strong>(Pittsburgh, PA)
\nMuseum of Resilience<\/em>, a neighborhood art place centered around the global interconnectedness and power of human beings.<\/p>\nHarriet\u2019s Apothecary\u00a0<\/strong>(Brooklyn NY)
\nOngoing work of this healing justice collective led by Black cis women, queer and trans healers, health professionals, artists and ancestors.<\/p>\nTaro Hattori\u00a0<\/strong>(Richmond, CA)
\nRolling Counterpoint<\/em>, a mobile teahouse providing a platform for discussions around inequities within local communities.<\/p>\nXandra Ibarra\u00a0<\/strong>(Oakland, CA)
\nNew performance about corporeal inhabitation, racialized skin and concealment in the age of surveillance.<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n\n\n| \n Jellyfish Colectivo y Los Dos\u00a0<\/strong>
\n(El Paso, TX)
\nCollaborative traveling street art initiative along the US\/Mexico border.<\/p>\nAmos Paul Kennedy Jr.\u00a0<\/strong>(Detroit, MI)
\nOngoing poster printing for concerts at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the USA.<\/p>\nYoung Joon Kwak\u00a0<\/strong>(Los Angeles, CA)
\nNew body of work involving trans performance objects.<\/p>\nTroy Michie\u00a0<\/strong>(Brooklyn, NY)
\nTravel to El Paso towards the development of multi-disciplinary works inspired by the Zoot suit.<\/p>\nHolly Nordlum\u00a0<\/strong>(Anchorage, AK)
\nTupik Mi<\/em>, a film and community based project dedicated to the revitalization of traditional tattooing amongst Inuit women.<\/p>\nAhamefule Oluo\u00a0<\/strong>(Seattle, WA)
\nDevelopment of\u00a0SUSAN<\/em>, a theatrical performance about the artist’s mother.<\/p>\nLaura Ortman<\/strong>\u00a0(Brooklyn, NY)
\nOngoing work involving the recording and collection of sounds, songs, stories and voices of Native Americans in New York City.<\/p>\nOtabenga Jones and Associates\u00a0<\/strong>(Houston, TX)
\nCreation of an education and activity packet for the youth of Houston’s historic Third Ward neighborhood.<\/p>\nSondra Perry\u00a0<\/strong>(Perth Amboy, NJ)
\nVideo work involving the NCAA\u2019s use of the artist\u2019s twin brother\u2019s likeness.<\/p>\nDario Robleto\u00a0<\/strong>(Houston, TX)
\nA body of work centered around the history of the heartbeat.<\/p>\nTina Takemoto\u00a0<\/strong>(San Francisco, CA)
\nThe third in a trilogy of experimental films about queer Japanese life during American wartime imprisonment.<\/p>\nRodrigo Valenzuela\u00a0<\/strong>
\n(Los Angeles, CA\/Seattle, WA)
\nVideo work about unpaid labor, volunteering, and internship culture.<\/p>\nJudith Walgren\u00a0<\/strong>(San Francisco, CA)
\nPhotographic and video work towards an alternate curriculum challenging existing K-5th grade California Mission studies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nurl clone<\/a> | Travis Scott x Air Jordan 6 “British Khaki” & Apparel Collection<\/a><\/span> | | | | | |