Collective Futures Fund (CFF) is pleased to announce 18 grant recipients for visual artists and artist-run activities in the Greater Boston area for the 2024 cycle. Thanks to our generous anonymous donor, CFF is pleased to announce that our Sustaining Practice grant tier has been increased from $2,000 to $2,500. In spring of 2024, CFF shared that our project grants, including Ongoing Platform and New Project tiers, would increase from $6,000 to $7,500. Through individual grants of $2,500 and $7,500, Collective Futures Fund awards a total of $85,000 per year to artists and groups for collaborative, public-oriented projects, with an emphasis on experimentation, risk-taking, and unconventional perspectives.
“The fourth year of Collective Futures Fund has garnered rigorous applications for the external jurying process in all of our granting tiers. With over 180 applications, we were honored to run another cycle as artists entrusted us with their dreams, world-building, and research,” says Program Director of the Collective Futures Fund and Tufts University Art Galleries Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin. “Our grantees envision collective practice with communities throughout the Greater Boston region to host workshops engaged in collective action supporting trans* community members, cultivating botanical belonging with native plants, and gathering thumbprints on clay for an altar honoring Palestinian lives. These projects epitomize the socially-engaged, critically civic heart of the Boston arts ecosystem that Collective Futures Fund aims to support with the crucial financial backing of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and an anonymous donor.”
Sustaining Practice
$2,500 grants for emerging individual artists and collaborators who need critical support for research, development of new project, and material sustenance throughout the process.
– Ileana Doble Hernandez
– Rania Abdalla Kadafour
– MOSH Studio (Adrienne Shishko and Suzanne Moseley)
– W.O.V (William Omar Valdes)
– Yutong Shi and Yindi Chen
– Kathryn Ramey
– Jay Lynn Gomez
– Mariona Lloreta
– Joanna Tam
– IMAGINE (Aka Sneha Shrestha)
MOSH Studio, the two-headed dragoness, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.
New Projects
$7,500 grants to support the creation and public presentation of new projects by visual artists, curators, or collectives in the Greater Boston area.
– sair goetz – Study in signaling
– Vikiana Petit Homme and Tatiana White – Guerrilla Mag
– Maria Fong and Wen-hao Tien – Dragon and Friends: Speculative Cosmologies in the Year of the Dragon
veronique d’entremont, Leena Ismail, Amanda Saunders, When You Cry, Cry Into Yourself: A Shrine to the Martyrs of Palestine,نيطسلف يف ءادهشلا حيرض :كسفن ىلع يكبا يكبت امدنع, 2023. Image courtesy of the artists.
Ongoing Platforms
$7,500 grants to support sustaining or the completion of long-term projects. This category recognizes the commitment, time, and focus required to pursue long-term artistic endeavors that support and foster local artist communities.
– Department of Public Imagination (Crystal Bi Wegner and Dzidzor Azaglo) – Department of Public Imagination
– Leena Ismail, veronique (nico) d’entremont, and Amanda Saunders – When You Cry, Cry Into Yourself: A Shrine to the Martyrs of Palestine. نيطسلف يف ءادهشلا حيرض :كسفن ىلع يكبا يكبت امدنع
– Jenn Houle – ‘Plant Paint Cross-Pollinate’ (PPCP)
– Sarah Brophy and Tanya Nixon-Silberg – Climate Monsters
– Helen Popinchalk and Jay LaCouture – Test Print Tuesdays
Sarah Brophy, Climate Monsters Illustrated Book Spreads 01, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Top images: Image left: IMAGINE (Aka Sneha Shrestha), Calling the Earth to Witness, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist; Image right: Crystal Bi, photo by: Nohemi Rodriguez, Dream Portal Phone Booth, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist