Locust Projects is excited to reveal its 2024 WaveMaker Grant awardees! Selected through an open call process by a team of local and national artists and arts professionals, elleven visionary artists and artist collectives will receive up to $6,000 each to create innovative work that will be shared with the public across Miami in non-traditional venues and platforms.
The 2024 WaveMakers are: New Work / Projects: Iman Clark, Amy Gelb, Jillian Mayer, and Nadia Wolff; Long-Haul Projects: Dejha Carrington, Yanira Collado, Margo Hannah, Suanay Hernandez, and Lee Pivnik; Research & Development + Implementation: Akia Dorsainvil and Christina Pettersson.
The 2024 WaveMaker selection panel included: Katerina Llanes, creative producer/curator who organized the recent #MakingMiami projects; Karen McKinnon, former WaveMaker grantee (2023); Selene Preciado, Curator and Director of Programs, LACE, Warhol Foundation Regional Regranting partner in L.A.; and Njeri Rutherford, Program Manager, CultureSource, Warhol Foundation Regional Regranting partner in Detroit.
WaveMaker grants at Locust Projects supports Miami’s visionary artists with incubator grants for innovative projects that are shared with the public in unconventional spaces.
Since 2015, WaveMaker has awarded $630,000 in funding to 127 of Miami’s visionary artists. Grantees receive up to $6,000 each in three categories: New Work / Projects, Long-Haul Projects, and Research & Development + Implementation. In the spirit of Locust Projects’ artist-driven mission, WaveMakers experiment and take risks, creating innovative work that is shared with the public in unconventional spaces.
WaveMaker is made possible by lead support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' Regional Regranting Program, a network of 35 partner organizations across the country. Founded in 2015 by the former nonprofit Cannonball, WaveMaker has been administered by Locust Projects, Miami’s longest running nonprofit alternative art space, since 2017.
For more about WaveMaker Grants, please visit www.wavemakergrants.org.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program was established in 2007 to recognize and support the movement of independently organized, public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional art scenes but that lies beyond the reach of traditional funding sources. The program is administered by non-profit visual art centers across the United States that work in partnership with the Foundation to fund artists’ experimental projects and collaborative undertakings.
The 35 regranting programs provide grants of up to $10,000 for the creation and presentation of new work. Programs are developed and facilitated by organizations in:
Founded in 2015 and administered by Locust Projects since 2017, WaveMaker Grants is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' Regional Regranting Program, a network of 35 regranting partners across the country: Alabama - Coleman Center for the Arts, Alabama Contemporary Art Center/ Space One Eleven: The Verdant Fund, Albuquerque - 516 ARTS: Fulcrum Fund, Atlanta - Atlanta Contemporary: Nexus Fund, Baltimore - The Peale: GRIT Fund, Buffalo - The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art: Generator Fund, Chicago - 3Arts: Ignite Fund, Cleveland - SPACES: The Satellite Fund, Denver - RedLine Contemporary Art Center: INSITE Fund, Detroit - CultureSource: Flourish Fund, Honolulu - Puʻuhonua Society: Hoʻākea Source, Houston - Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks, & Project Row Houses: The Idea Fund, Indianapolis - Big Car Collaborative: Power Plant Grant, Kansas City - Charlotte Street Foundation & Spencer Museum of Art: Rocket Grants, Knoxville (TN) - Tri-Star Arts: Current Art Fund, Lakota Communities/ Western South Dakota - Racing Magpie: Sinew Fund, Los Angeles - LACE Lightning Fund, Medford (MA) - Tufts University Art Gallery: Collective Futures Fund, Miami - Locust Projects: WaveMaker Grants, Milwaukee - The Open, Poor Farm: The Open Fund, Minneapolis - Midway Contemporary Art: Visual Arts Fund, New Orleans - Antenna & Ashé Cultural Arts Center: Platforms Fund, Newark - Project for Empty Space: Newark Artist Accelerator, Oklahoma City - Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition: Thrive Grants, Omaha - The Union for Contemporary Art: Populus Fund, Philadelphia - Asian Arts Initative: The Velocity Fund, Portland (ME) - SPACE Gallery: The Kindling Fund, Portland (OR) - Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: Precipice Fund, Providence - Dirt Palace Public Projects: Interlace Grant Fund, Raleigh (NC) - Visual Art Exchange: Snapdragon Fund, Saint Louis - The Luminary: Futures Fund, San Francisco - Southern Exposure: Alternative Exposure, San Juan, PR - Beta Local: Maquina Simple, Seattle - Northwest Film Forum: Collective Power Fund, Tucson (AZ) - MOCA Tucson: Night Bloom Grants, Washington DC - Washington Project for the Arts: Wherewithal Grants.
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