Thirty-five area musicians, animators, performing artists, filmmakers and other creatives will share in $1 million in unrestricted prizes as part of the 2024 Kresge Artist Fellowship and Gilda Snowden Emerging Artist Award .
Last fall, the Kresge Foundation and the Kresge Center for the Arts in Detroit announced that the amount of scholarships this year would increase from $25,000 to $40,000 and the number of scholarships would increase from 20 to 25.
“It’s heartening to see the work of Metro Detroit’s arts community take center stage during some of the city’s most celebratory moments over the past few months: the opening of Michigan Grand Central Terminal, the NFL Draft, the Sports Music Festival, the Kresge Fund centennial and more,” Rip Rapson, president and CEO of the Kresge Foundation, said in a press release. “These outstanding artists and arts groups remind us that Detroit’s cultural creators were a source of vitality long before these momentous events, actively cultivating the vibrant Detroit and city in the making that we know today. We are proud Be able to support them.
Here are this year’s winners by category:
Kresge Artist Fellow in Film and Music
Juanita Anderson, interdisciplinary
Beat all that rhymes with Detroit, interdisciplinary
Stephanie Christian, Music creation and performance
Damian Crutcher, music performance
Maurice Draughn, Music creation and performance
Katie Dressner, interdisciplinary
Aisha Ellis, music performance
Ian Finkelstein, Music creation and performance
Tamara Finley, Cartoon
Linna Forest, Movie director
Gabriel Hall, interdisciplinary
high tech, interdisciplinary
ink, Music creation and performance
Shkod, Music creation
Razi Jaffrey, Movie director
Wem Namu, Movie director
Lara Sfeir, Movie director
Ursula Walker, music performance
Kresge Live Art Artist Fellow
Imani Maat Amhemra Amen Taylor, dance
Ava Ansari, Performance art
flying cardboard theater, interdisciplinary
Git Master Mike, dance
Founder of Keita, Performance art
Jorah Thacker, choreographer
TETRA – Digital Underground Railroad, interdisciplinary
Each artist will receive a no-strings-attached prize of $40,000.
Gilda Snowden Emerging Artist Award for Film and Music
Steve Saul Ansara, music performance
Drummer B, music performance
In bonsai, interdisciplinary
Hannah E. Farhum, Movie director
Ms. Hillier, interdisciplinary
Maddie Schubeck, Movie director
skinny trell, interdisciplinary
Gilda Snowden Live Art Emerging Artist Award
galaxy, Performance art
Miriam G. Johnson, Dance and Choreography
Mike Southday CQ, storytelling
The awards, named for the late mentor and emerging artist Gilda Snowden, will each receive a $5,000 award.
According to the organization, awards in each category are proportional to the relative number of applications received. Winners are selected by a panel of regional and national experts who change the cycle of each award.
For more information, visit Kresge.org.
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