Announcing Collective Futures Fund 2025 Grant Recipients
Image left: DaNice D Marshall, Moments Loss, 2021 .Photo: Technygal; Image right: Cathy Della Lucia, Grocery Landscape-6 HMart Reliefs, 2025. Photo: Mel Taing
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 2025 cycle. This year marks the 5th anniversary of Collective Futures Fund. To celebrate this milestone and uplift our 2025 awardees, CFF is hosting a public 5-year anniversary community gathering and grantee reception at the Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG / Boston at 230 Fenway).
In 2024 we increased our project grants and Sustaining Practice grants to $7500 and $2500 respectively. We now award 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. Our 5th cycle marks a total of $470,000 awarded to artists in the Greater Boston.
“The 5th year of Collective Futures Fund is emerging in a difficult time when funding for artists is being challenged, censored, redirected to histories of the nation-state, or even cut. It’s essential that we persist in this work as grantmakers in Boston to resource artists who bring expansive and nuanced understandings of our collective communities,” says Program Director of the Collective Futures Fund, Laurel V. McLaughlin. “Artists working in community-driven ways foster dialogue across social, economic, racial, religious, and political divides, and those opportunities to collaborate and speculate on our futures is critical in our fraught contemporary moment. We’re honored to mark the 5th year of such dialogues with artists over the past five years, but simultaneously to rededicate ourselves to collaborations with artists taking risks and reveling in experimentation through the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and an anonymous donor.”
“In this year’s cycle, we received rigorous, impactful applications that demonstrate the drive and passion across our arts communities. We’re grateful for the glimpses into the dreams, projects, and activations happening in our city and beyond,” says Program Coordinator, Camila Bohan Insaurralde. “There is a noticeable trend of increased application fatigue; it’s a vulnerable practice to share your projects with an external jury to be evaluated. This year’s applicants showed considerable care in their submitted materials; and, it’s a testament to the spirit of the Greater Boston area that, despite our preset moment’s hostility to arts and culture, artists are pushing onward.”
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.
Fiona Phie
Ziyi Billy Zeng
Cathy Della Lucia
Amanda Beard Garcia
Yorgos Efthymiadis
DaNice D Marshall
George Annan Jr.
Gray Winburne
Sadie Saunders, Daniel Bracken, Olivia Goliger
Sam Lê Shave
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.
Tanya Nixon-Silberg, Ash Winkfield | Like One of the Family: A Puppetry Production
Siobhan Landry, Angie Morrill, Kali Simmons | Haunting Hannah
Dell Marie Hamilton, Angela Counts | Mark, Phillis, Phebe: A Murder Told in 3 Parts
Maggie Wong | Unity Newspaper
Rachel TonThat | The Airtight Garage
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.
Yolanda He Yang, Jose Cortez, Wenbin Huang, Theodera Earthwurms, Xiaoyue Xu | Behind VA Shadows
Paloma Valenzuela | “Now Playing” Film Series
Charles Crowell | Deiner
Collective Futures Fund 2025 Jury
The Collective Futures Fund jury for 2025 included: Carmen Hermo, the Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nelly Kate, a previous CFF grantee and an artist with an expanded practice in sound, visiting professor at Northeastern University facilitating seminars in Media Art, Culture, and Social Justice, and research associate with MIT Spatial Sound Lab studying methods for spatializing open captions and haptics; Kamaria Weemz, an artist and embodied practitioner wading into the depths of Blackness, reveling in liberatory practices,and the Director of Cultural Programs + Galleries at Boston Ujima Project; and Nando Alvarez-Perez, an artist and writer who serves as the founding director of The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art and as editor-in-chief of Cornelia Magazine.
5 years with Collective Futures Fund
In 2020 Collective Futures Fund began administering relief funds to artists impacted by the pandemic. 2021 marked our inaugural project grant cycle. 2025 is our fifth year supporting artist activity in the Greater Boston area. We are excited to take this moment to gather and celebrate milestone with our partners, grantees, and community members.
Save the Date
CFF 5-Year Anniversary Party and 2025 Grantee Reception
Friday October 24, 2025
Tufts University Art Galleries/Boston
230 Fenway, Boston MA 02115
We hope you’ll join us at this public celebration, surrounded by the TUAG exhibition How do you throw a brick through the window... co-organized by TUAG Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin and JMKAC Associate Curator Tanya Gayer in dialogue with the artists.
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 39 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
