Announcing Collective Futures Fund 2023 Grant Recipients
Image left: Xaviera and Miriam Taleb-Louise, ASYRA RISING, 2020.; Image right: Wen Yu, The Dinner, 2019
Boston, MA—Collective Futures Fund supports ideas that bring communities together in radical reconsiderations of our status quo. We are excited to announce twenty grant recipients for visual artists and artist-run activity in the Greater Boston area for our 2023 funding cycle. Through individual grants of $2,000 and $6,000, Collective Futures Fund awards a total of $80,000 per year to artists and groups for collaborative, public-oriented projects, with an emphasis on experimentation, risk taking, and unconventional viewpoints.
“In this third year of the Collective Futures Fund, we continue to fund Sustaining Practices, New Works, and Ongoing Platforms,” says new Program Director of the Collective Futures Fund, Laurel V. McLaughlin. “The Collective Futures Fund is a key structural step in artistic world building in the Greater Boston region. From projects such as a mobile massage cart interacting with immigrant communities in Boston’s Chinatown, an open-access multimedia publication concerning local ecologies with new writings, works of art, video roundtables and documentaries, and printable zines to a trans-affirming public writing collective creating installations in interstitial spaces, the Collective Futures Fund continues its mission to resource vibrant communities in Greater Boston. We are grateful to unite these artists with the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and a generous anonymous donor, as well as collaborate with discerning and generous jurors.”
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.
Kitaab Kollective — Anukriti Kaushik and Aftan
New Works
$6,000 grants to support the creation and public presentation of new work / projects by visual artists, curators, or collectives.
Che Yeh — Interstitial Lives
Maria Patricia Tinajero and Julie Poitras Santos — SOIL CULTURE
Joe González and May-Lisa Chandler — Guilty Until Proven Innocent (The Sean Ellis Story)
Nelly Kate, Georgina Kleege, Fayen d’Evie and Charles Gushue —Space is Noise You Feel
Carolyn Lewenberg, and Maria Lopes — Rafael Hernández Collaborative Mural
Ongoing Platforms
$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.
Kirsten Swenson and Rebecca Uchill — On This Ground: Local Ecologies of Eastern Massachusetts
Ami Bennitt — Culture Crisis Convenings
Xray Aims — “Six (part of a series)”
John Guthrie and Stace Brandt — Gallery VERY
The Collective Futures Fund jury for 2023 included: Thea Quiray Tagle, a Filipinx femme curator, writer, and transdisciplinary scholar and the Associate Curator of the Bell Gallery and Brown Arts Institute (BAI) at Brown University; Ngoc-Tran Vu, a 1.5-generation Vietnamese-American multimedia artist and organizer; Sarah Montross, Chief Curator of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum/The Trustees; and Laurie Rojas, independent art critic, journalist, and grant program manager for the Wavemaker grant through Locust Projects.
Collective Futures Fund is excited to welcome Laurel V. McLaughlin as the new Program Director.
Laurel is a curator, art historian, arts writer, and educator from Philadelphia. She is completing her doctorate at Bryn Mawr College with a dissertation concerning performative migratory aesthetics. Her writing has been published in Art Papers, ASAP/J, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Contact Quarterly, Performance Research, and Women & Performance, and she has forthcoming publications in the International Journal of the Arts in Society, the edited volumes Bare Bodies—Thresholding Life (De Gruyter GmbH) and Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance (Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama), and has co-edited the multidisciplinary reader Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press). Her curatorial record is extensive, with exhibitions, programming series, and symposia developed and presented at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the ICA Philadelphia; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina; the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Portland, OR; and forthcoming at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts.
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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Laurel V. McLaughlin | Program Director, laurel.mclaughlin@tufts.edu Camila Bohan Insaurralde | Program Coordinator, camila.bohan@tufts.edu
