The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

16 March 2022

CultureSource Announces Recipients of 2021 Flourish Fund Grant

CultureSource is proud to announce the recipients of our Flourish Fund grant for the 2021 cycle. Six artists were awarded $10,000 to support collaborative projects that are experimental, shared with the public, and embrace contemporary creative possibilities for the future of arts and culture.

In the spirit of embracing contemporary culture at its core and edges, grants were made to artists at various stages of their careers working on multidisciplinary projects that center the visual arts. Annually, the Flourish Fund offers six grants of $10,000 each to support artists for these innovative, public-facing projects across the seven counties of Southeast Michigan.

2021 Flourish Fund Grant Recipients

  • bree gant, Wayfinding
    Project Collaborators: Celia Benvenutti, David Gulley
  • Chazz Miller, Being the Change
    Project Collaborators: Amy Wellington, Carrie Joers, M.E.D.U. Detroit
  • Hadassah GreenSky, The Red Ghetto
    Project Collaborators: Vibes With The Tribes, Raymond ‘SouFy’ Elwart Jr., Ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby
  • Jennifer R. Harge, the FLY|DROWN fables
    Project Collaborators: Devin Drake, Sterling Toles, Sabrina Nelson
  • Karilú Alarcon Forshee, La Carpa Theatre
    Project Collaborators: Elton Monroy Duran
  • Taraneh Fazeli, Access Intimacy: Show me you really care
    Project Collaborators: Relentless Bodies (Owolabi Aboyade + Aiko Fukuchi), Detroit Disability Power’s Community Care Circles, Cannach MacBride, and others to be confirmed

 

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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