Announcing Collective Futures Fund 2022 Grant Recipients
Left: O womb warrior, by Golden, in collaboration with Simone & Chanelle John for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Right: Two SWANA Women, by Feda Eid with illustration by Yosra Emanizadeh.
(Boston, MA) Collective Futures Fund announces the twenty recipients of grants for visual artists and artist-run activity in the Greater Boston area for our 2022 project cycle. Through individual grants between $2,000 and $6,000, Collective Futures Fund awards $80,000 per year to artists and groups for collaborative, public-oriented projects, with an emphasis on experimentation, risk taking, and unconventional viewpoints.
“As we move into our second year of funding, we are thrilled to bring in a new community of artists into the Collective Futures Fund cohort who are deeply engaged with caring for and creatively engaging our region and communities,” said Abigail Satinsky, Program Director and Curator & Head of Public Engagement at Tufts University Art Galleries. “From Orbis Editions, an artist’s run small press that integrates publications with performance and participatory actions to AOA Supply Collective’s Virtual Reality painting school in Boston which will use art and technology to bridge the digital divide, to Holding Space Archive, a long-term curatorial project which aims to bear witness to the lived experiences of those marginalized by chronic illness, there is an incredible depth and breadth of what these artists are bringing to Greater Boston that we are so grateful to be a part of supporting for all of our Collective Futures.”
Sustaining Practice
$2,000 grants for emerging individual artists and collaborators who need critical support for research, to develop new projects and future ideas, and sustain themselves in the process.
New Works / Projects
$6,000 grants to support the creation and public presentation of new work / projects by visual artists, curators, or collectives.
William Nelson, Patrick Campbell (Videographer), Eric Eramo (Shop Owner): Clippers & Conversation
Jessica Hankey, Ozlenen Ozbicerler, Lara Baladi, Sophie Hamacher, Viva Ruiz: Orbis Editions
Dan Borelli and Marco Kaltofen: Unfriending the Atom
AOA Supply Collective, Mar Chapman, Natas Mann (JB), Ivan Rickiez (Eyevan), Doe-Fernando: Virtual Reality (VR) painting school in Boston
Whitney Mashburn: Holding Space Archive
Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown: Public Parks/Native Lands
Ongoing Projects
$6,000 grants to support sustaining or the completion of long-term projects. This category recognizes the commitment, time, and focus required to pursue long-term artistic endeavors that support and foster local artist communities.
UnBound Bodies Collective: Roots + Futures (R+F)
Golden: A DEAD NAME THAT LEARNED HOW TO LIVE
Ngoc-Tran Vu: 1975: A Healing Memorial Project
Catherine Siller, Betsy Goldman, Melissa Mirza, Abby Swidler: The Mysteries of Life: a Queer Nature
Collective Futures Fund 2022 Jury included: Alison Croney Moses, artist and associate director of the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts; Laurel Nakadate, artist and director of the MFA graduate program at SMFA at Tufts; Cierra Rembert, artist and Artist Initiatives Coordinator at SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio; and Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.
Collective Futures Fund is also pleased to announce a partnership with Boston Art Review. A special digital issue of the biannual journal, appearing in November 2022, will feature the Collective Futures Fund 2021 award grantees. Boston Art Review is a community-led publication committed to facilitating active discourse around contemporary art in Boston and beyond. Please subscribe, support, and look out for future announcements!
Collective Futures Fund is administered by the Tufts University Art Galleries and is a part of the Regional Regranting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Sustaining Practice tier is supported by an anonymous donor. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program supports the creation of independent, nontraditional, public-facing artists’ projects by partnering with leading cultural institutions in communities across the country. Tufts University Art Galleries is part of a national network in thirty-two cities.
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