Announcing Collective Futures Fund 2024 Grant Recipients
Image left: IMAGINE (Aka Sneha Shrestha), Calling the Earth to Witness, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist;
Image right: Crystal Bi, photo by: Nohemi Rodriguez, Dream Portal Phone Booth, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.
Boston, MA—Collective Futures Fund (CFF) is pleased to announce 18 grant recipients for visual artists and artist-run activities in the Greater Boston area for the 2024 cycle. Thanks to our generous anonymous donor, CFF is pleased to announce that our Sustaining Practice grant tier has been increased from $2,000 to $2,500. In spring of 2024, CFF shared that our project grants, including Ongoing Platform and New Project tiers, would increase from $6,000 to $7,500. Through individual grants of $2,500 and $7,500, Collective Futures Fund awards a total of $85,000 per year to artists and groups for collaborative, public-oriented projects, with an emphasis on experimentation, risk-taking, and unconventional perspectives.
“The fourth year of Collective Futures Fund has garnered rigorous applications for the external jurying process in all of our granting tiers. With over 180 applications, we were honored to run another cycle as artists entrusted us with their dreams, world-building, and research,” says Program Director of the Collective Futures Fund and Tufts University Art Galleries Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin. “Our grantees envision collective practice with communities throughout the Greater Boston region to host workshops engaged in collective action supporting trans* community members, cultivating botanical belonging with native plants, and gathering thumbprints on clay for an altar honoring Palestinian lives. These projects epitomize the socially-engaged, critically civic heart of the Boston arts ecosystem that Collective Futures Fund aims to support with the crucial financial backing of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and an anonymous donor.”
Sustaining Practice
$2,500 grants for emerging individual artists and collaborators who need critical support for research, development of new project, and material sustenance throughout the process.
MOSH Studio (Adrienne Shishko and Suzanne Moseley)
Yutong Shi and Yindi Chen
Jay Lynn Gomez
New Projects
$7,500 grants to support the creation and public presentation of new projects by visual artists, curators, or collectives in the Greater Boston area.
sair goetz – Study in signaling
Vikiana Petit Homme and Tatiana White – Guerrilla Mag
Maria Fong and Wen-hao Tien – Dragon and Friends: Speculative Cosmologies in the Year of the Dragon
Ongoing Platforms
$7,500 grants to support the sustaining or 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.
Department of Public Imagination (Crystal Bi Wegner and Dzidzor Azaglo) – Department of Public Imagination
Leena Ismail, veronique (nico) d'entremont, and Amanda Saunders – When You Cry, Cry Into Yourself: A Shrine to the Martyrs of Palestine
Jenn Houle – ‘Plant Paint Cross-Pollinate’ (PPCP)
Sarah Brophy and Tanya Nixon-Silberg – Climate Monsters
Helen Popinchalk and Jay LaCouture – Test Print Tuesdays
Collective Futures Fund Inaugural Advisory Council
Collective Futures Fund is honored to announce our inaugural Advisory Council working with CFF staff on strategic outreach. Azia Carle, Jasper A. Sanchez, Abigail Satinsky, and Rachel Strutt bring experience expanding institutional dialogues concerning access and diversity throughout the visual arts field, from community spaces to city-adjacent and collegiate organizations. CFF will collaborate with the Advisory Council to continue outreach throughout Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, and Plymouth counties.
Jasper A. Sanchez is a curator and cultural organizer based in Boston, MA. A Venezuelan-Colombian raised in Miami, FL, immersion in transnational art since their youth inspired them to focus their studies on topics ranging from queer diaspora to public art.
Abigail Satinsky is the Program Officer and Curator of Arts & Culture at the Wagner Foundation and previously worked as the Curator & Head of Public Engagement at Tufts University Art Galleries.
Azia Carle is a visual artist, advocate, and life-time resident of Boston. Curious and creative, Azia has experience in a variety of art mediums including painting, sculpture, and documentary film.
Rachel Strutt is the cultural director at the Somerville Arts Council, where she works on cultural placemaking projects, curates arts festivals and public art projects, and helps manage the LCC grant program, which funds approximately 70 local artists and cultural organizations annually.
Collective Futures Fund 2024 Jury
The Collective Futures Fund jury for 2024 included: Kelsey Halliday Johnson a writer, artist, organizational strategist, and the Executive Director of the multi-disciplinary visual and performing art organization SPACE in Portland ME; Sarah Kanouse an interdisciplinary artist and critical writer examining the political ecology of landscape and space; TK Smith a curator, writer, cultural historian, and doctoral student at the University of Delaware, where he researches art, material culture, and the built environment; and Erika Umali the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s first Curator of Collections.
About Collective Futures Fund
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 32 cities.
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Contact us:
info@collectivefuturesfund.org
Laurel V. McLaughlin | Program Director, laurel.mclaughlin@tufts.edu
Camila Bohan Insaurralde | Program Coordinator, camila.bohan@tufts.edu
