Collective Futures Fund Announces 2026 Cycle Grantees

Image left: Copenger, Farm Fair, 2026. Photo: An Hà. Image right: ponnapa prakkamakul, Sampan, 2019.

Boston, MA] — Collective Futures Fund (CFF) is pleased to announce twenty grant recipients for visual artists and artist-run activities in the Greater Boston area for the 2026 cycle.

This cycle, CFF will award a total of $110,000 to artists and groups for collaborative, public-oriented projects, with emphases on experimentation, risk-taking, and unconventional perspectives. Building upon the expansions of New Projects, Ongoing Platforms, and Sustaining Practice tiers in 2024 and 2025 through generous stewardship, CFF is honored once again to announce further financial support to expand extant tiers and a new tier in 2027 with a coalition funding model galvanized by Barr Foundation and Wagner Foundation in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and an anonymous donor.

“In the sixth year of Collective Futures Fund, artist applicants and grantees continue to inspire the CFF staff, its independent panel of jurors, and Boston community members engaged with its mission. Even amidst a challenging landscape of shifting federal and local commitments to the arts, artists remain steadfast in their commitments to innovation and social transformation. Barr Foundation and Wagner Foundation recognized this call towards increased resourcing in a pathmaking collaboration,” says Collective Futures Fund Director, Laurel V. McLaughlin.