- Source: Disability Futures Fellowship Award
The Disability Futures Fellowship Award is a grant award offered by the Ford and Mellon Foundations to promote disabled artists. Through the Fellowship, the Ford and Mellon Foundation offers fifty thousand dollars to twenty artists every 18 months, totaling one million dollars per cohort.
Inception
The Fellowship began with a year-long research study in collaboration with disabled artists to determine how the grant money could most effectively meet the needs of the recipients, led by then-President and Chief Executive of United States Artists, Deana Haggag. Feedback included an accessible application process, the ability to tailor the money to each recipient's individual needs, and flexible compensation that takes federal health benefit requirements into account.
Recipients
= 2020
=Source:
Alice Sheppard, choreographer
Alice Wong, activist, oral historian and founder of the Disability Visibility Project
Carolyn Lazard, multi-medium artist and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
Christine Sun Kim, sound artist
Eli Clare, writer and founder of the Queerness and Disability Conference
Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, design director at MASS Design Group
Jen Deerinwater, writer and photographer
Jerron Herman, choreographer, dancer, and writer
Jim LeBrecht, co-director, co-producer, and sound designer of Crip Camp
John Lee Clark, poet
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, writer and lead performing artist for Sins Invalid
Mia Mingus, writer and community organizer
Navild (Niv) Acosta, choreographer and multimedia artist
Patty Berne, author, artist, director, and cofounder of Sins Invalid
Perel, performance artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer
Riva Lehrer, painter, writer, and curator
Rodney Evans, filmmaker
Ryan J. Haddad, actor and playwright, best known as Andrew Cashman on The Politician
Sky Cubacub, fashion designer, founder of Rebirth Garments
Tourmaline, filmmaker, visual artist, and activist
= 2024
=Source:
Kay Ulanday Barrett, poet and essayist
Gaelynn Lea, artist and disability rights activist
Natasha Ofili, actress and writer
Warren Snipe, a.k.a. Wawa, rapper and actor
References
External links
Official website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Disability Futures Fellowship Award
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Naomi Westerman
- Eli Clare
- Mia Mingus
- Jerron Herman
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Carolyn Lazard
- C. Riley Snorton
