Karla Donehew Pérez, our new Grantee &founding member of the GRAMMY-winning Catalyst Quartet. Their UNCOVERED albums are compilations feat. the music of historically critical black composers. Vol 4, will feature all 18 string quartets of Joseph Bologne Chevalier de St. Georges.

Welcome Mo Kong, our newest Grantee, a multidisciplinary artist. Through reconstructing post-pandemic office environments &work aesthetics, Their project Swift Island Chain explores racial melancholia and high&low-context information gaps experienced by Asian immigrants.

Welcome Keenan Tyler Oliphant, our newest Performance Grantee. His project, A PRACTICAL BREVIARY: TERCE, is a new music theatre inspired by breviary masses performed by cloistered monks. It will have its world premiere in early 2024 at The Space at Irondale in Brooklyn.

Welcome, Yesenia Montilla, our newest Literature Grantee. In her new collection, American Thoroughbred Yesenia is looking at the planet in relation to climate change and capitalism as a cause and a direct antithesis to the kind of freedom that so many are desperately seeking.

Meet our newest Grantee, Victor Lowrie Tafoya + learn about his upcoming album Mivos Quartet: Playing With Seeds. The Mivos Quartet which has been dedicated to advancing+performing new music in all its variety to diverse audiences worldwide. Learn More: https://t.co/K85p1R1Jmm

Meet Nicola Ginzel + learn about her visual project How Do You Restructure Form?, a metaphorical cleansing ritual exorcising a patriarchal pathology, whose arcane dogma regardless of nation, culture, belief, or Age—dissolves into many possibilities. https://t.co/WwSzNinYMS

Meet grantee Javier Antonio González and learn about the 2023 production of the original play, “Zoetrope.” Javier Antonio González, a playwright, director+filmmaker is also the founding artistic director of the bilingual experimental ensemble Caborca. https://t.co/BxYOokVjaI

Meet Sarah Aziz, a Palestinian American writer and learn more about her book, The Hollow Half, a first-person story which combines memoir, oral history, archival research + speculative non-fiction to reclaim lost histories and imagine possible futures. https://t.co/bnZh1j5jVp

Meet Bazeed and learn about their upcoming first novel, “The Boy Made of Air”, written in multiplicities of voice & vector; about diaspora, subtext, and silence, and a pair of twins, one named after the sun, the other after the light. https://t.co/yPbvpM3RNh

Meet Chase Elodia and learn about his project, “Phantoms Among Us”, a set of new original music for jazz ensemble+voice that explores the idea of "Ambiguous Loss" through the lens of an intergenerational family portrait. https://t.co/wpU7QrZ1p0

Meet Elysse and learn more about her debut album, “Rest of Our Lives”, which she plans to release in early 2023. The album is the culmination of Elysse's explorations as a vocalist, writer, poet, composer, and producer. https://t.co/Q2Nv8d4qAl

Meet Grantee Kosuke Kawahara and learn about his project Disfigured Galaxy, (working title) His project addresses the mystic presence of deformed organisms and their surrounding environment. The project will be presented in New York in Fall 2023 https://t.co/QDViIaBaM9

Meet Grantee Hedwig Brouckaert and learn about her project “Peel - America”. Hedwig Brouckaert works with mass media imagery to create introspective and tactile works, Hedwig will present this series in an exhibition to open in NYC in the spring of 2023. https://t.co/ZeAQbxvcnC

Meet our 2022 Spring Grantees Visual Grantees Hedwig Brouckaert and. Kosuke Kawahara Music Grantees Elysse and Chase Elodia Literature Grantee Bazeed Learn more about them at https://t.co/EiO6qcZLBE

Meet Grantee Nicole Zuraitis+learn about her project Oil on Water; How Love Begins, co-produced w/ Grammy Award winning bassist Christian McBride+set to release in 2023, featuring all-original compositions+the talents of some of the jazz world’s best. https://t.co/68Fm88pBcI

Meet Grantee David Hodges of the Los Chantas Tango Ensemble and their new album, 20 Años, commemorating the 20th years of the group’s continuous presence on the NYC tango scene. Learn more about David Hodges and the Los Chantas Tango Ensemble. https://t.co/i6M9qdrDei

Meet Grantee Jamie Baum and her project “To Be of Use,” composed for her Septet+ and guest vocalists, with texts by women poets in a modern jazz setting to illustrate the experience of living in the time of Covid-19 +its transformation of our world. https://t.co/Smfjngzve4

Meet our new Grantees Karen Kandel+Mallory Catlett +their new work, “The Vicksburg Project”. A live theatrical song cycle traces the experiences of women+gender-complex people in Vicksburg, Mississippi in the 1860s, 1910s, 1960s+the current moment. https://t.co/sdrOCqnjbk

Meet Christopher Rudd+learn about his work WITNESS. Inspired by the countless African-Americans killed w/out justice WITNESS mixes genres of dance w/ contemporary circus to put America’s racial landscape into historical context+imagine a more just future. https://t.co/yb43aNs4xx

Meet our new Grantee C. Quintana + her upcoming novel The Twisted Fate of La Media Luna. CQ (she/any) is a queer multi-genre writer w/ Cuban+Louisiana roots based on unceded Canarsee+Munsee Lenape land in Cypress Hills, BK. Meet CQ and her work at: https://t.co/cfzJSledNR