SPACES is proud to announce the awardees of the 2026 Satellite Fund: Orlando Caraballo Ortiz, Anna Chapman/Re.tangle, Shelli Reeves, Lindsay Stefans, and Darius Steward. With the eighth cycle of this fund, each artist’s project was selected by a panel of five jurors to receive a grant of $12,000. The Satellite Fund, administered by SPACES since 2019 and supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting, is an opportunity for Cuyahoga County based artists, curators, and cultural producers to create a public visual art project engaging in experimental practices with strong conceptual foundations.
2026 Satellite Fund Awardees
Orlando Caraballo Ortiz
Jugando la Mano / La Chamba Linda is an art activation across two sites inspired by Caraballo’s grandfather’s Delicatessen that interrogates how cultural spaces and activities they contain connect us to our personal, cultural, and spiritual cosmologies.Through this work, Ortiz defines delicatessens as third spaces for fellowship and healing; cultural games (like Dominos, Brisca, and Bolitas) as simulated tests for collaboration & strategy-formation; and dream-numerology as a framework for survival and echando pa’lante (moving ahead).
Anna Chapman // Re.tangle
Re.tangle No.4 will take place across four locations in Northeast Ohio: Oxbow Orchard, Vessel City, Praxis Fiber Workshop, and Summit Artspace. The project will engage a wide range of regional artists, cultural practitioners, and organizations to stimulate dialogue between creative cultural resilience and food sovereignty. In addition to ongoing open weaving participation, the project will host a series of free public programs, designed to engage diverse audiences through performance, dialogue, and hands-on making.
Shelli Reeves
Granny’s Porch is an immersive installation exploring what it means to belong when the people and places that first taught us belonging are gone. Inspired by Shelli Reeves’ grandmother’s porch and kitchen, the project brings together 6 community stories revealing where belonging has lived and lives today. Through oral histories, home videos, sound, and domestic spaces, visitors encounter places of refuge, care, and connection, reflecting on where they belong and how belonging is facilitated.
Lindsay Stefans
Common Light is a multi-day, site-specific light installation that transforms a yet-to-be-revealed Cleveland landmark into an immersive journey. Visitors will be guided in small groups through a carefully choreographed experience of light, shadow, sound, and color, discovering the site through both individual reflection and collective participation. The guided experience encourages participants to connect with others, and engage their senses, creating moments of contemplation, wonder, and shared presence.
Darius Steward
Wet on Wet is a temporary public installation of large watercolor portraits of black people in Cleveland, painted on Yupo paper and mounted to the walls with grommets. Every five minutes, a built-in sprinkler system hits specific spots, stripping pigment back to bare paper before the pieces dry and partly reset. Each painting keeps changing over the run of the show. The work is about progress, or the lack of, in Cleveland’s black neighborhoods.