The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

20 December 2021

2021 Night Bloom: Grants for Artists Awardees Announced

This year’s Night Bloom grant recipients were selected for their experimental and collaboratively-focused approaches that serve to enhance the cultural ecosystems within the greater Tucson area.

– Alanna Airitan, Elizabeth Burden, and Elizabeth Denneau

– BorderLens/SW

– Everybody

– Inner Freq: Angelica Lopez and Jorge Bojorquez with Victor Valencia

– Nazafarin Lotfi and Saretta Morgan

– Alyx Lunada with BCC Tucson

– PUES MAG

– SNAG (School of New Art Geographies): Erik Schmahl and Susanna Battin + more

– Chava Shapiro with Molly Block, Dr. Maxwell Greenberg, Nika Kaiser, and ancestors both named and unnamed

– Feng-Feng Yeh

Night Bloom grants were selected by a panel of three jurors who reviewed more than 100 competitive applications. This year’s jurors were: Nicole Miller, Artist; Alana Hernandez, Executive Director & Curator, CALA Alliance ; and Kevin Holden, Programs Assistant, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.

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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant