Ford and Mellon Foundations Reveal 2022 Disability Futures Fellows
The Ford Basis and the Mellon Basis have named the recipients of the 2022 Incapacity Futures Fellowship. The one certainly one of its sort in the US, the fellowship was established in 2020 to raise and have a good time the work of disabled practitioners working throughout a number of artistic fields, together with these of arts and tradition, journalism, and documentary movie. Aimed toward elevating the visibility of disabled artists and artistic practitioners and at bringing consideration to the monetary {and professional} challenges they face, the Incapacity Futures Fellowship distributes $1 million yearly amongst twenty recipients, with every fellow receiving an unrestricted $50,000 grant. Amongst this yr’s winners are Chicago artist Sandie (Chun-sha) Yi, who explores problems with identification, intimacy, need, and sexuality via wearable objects; composer and multi-instrumentalist JJJJJerome Ellis, a local of Norfolk, Virginia, and a self-described “blk disabled animal”; and Brooklyn sculptor Reverend Joyce McDonald, an HIV-positive former girl-group member.
The Incapacity Futures Fellowship arose out of a yearlong analysis initiative commissioned by the Ford Basis and performed by United States Artists, which interviewed dozens of disabled artists and artistic professionals throughout the nation to learn to higher serve their cohort. Recognizing the extra labor and barrier the appliance course of represents for artistic practitioners, the organizers of the prize have carried out away with the appliance course of. Fellows are as a substitute chosen via a nomination course of, wherein members of a panel selects finalists from a equipped checklist of nominees compiled by a bunch of nominators. Finalists are confirmed by an advisory council of disabled artistic practitioners assembled to information the initiative.
The total checklist of 2022 Incapacity Futures Fellows is beneath.
Alexandria Wailes (she/her)
Actor and theatermaker
New York
Alison O’Daniel (she/her)
Visible artist and filmmaker
Los Angeles and San Francisco
Antoine Hunter, Purple Hearth Crow (Purple Hearth Crow)
Choreographer and human advocate
Oakland, CA
Camisha L. Jones (she/her)
Poet
Herndon, VA
Corbett Joan O’Toole (she/her)
Activist historian
Dickie Hearts (he/him)
Actor
New York
JJJJJerome Ellis (any)
Composer and poet
Norfolk, VA
Reverend Joyce McDonald (she/her)
Artist
Brooklyn, NY
Kenny Fries (he/him)
Author
Kauneonga Lake, NY and Berlin
Khadijah Queen (she/her)
Author
M.Eifler (they/them)
Artist
San Francisco
Naomi Ortiz (she/her)
Poet, author, and visible artist
Tucson
Nasreen Alkhateeb (she/her)
Filmmaker
Los Angeles
NEVE (they/them and he/she/him/her)
Terpsichorean artist
Seattle, WA (Duwamish and Coast Salish Islands)
QuestionATL (he/him)
Artist and music producer
East Level, GA
Sandie (Chun-sha) Yi (she/her)
Artist
Chicago
Sandy Ho (she/her)
Group organizer
Boston
Tee Franklin (she/her)
Artist and screenwriter
New Jersey
Wendy Lu (she/her)
Journalist
New York
Yo-Yo Lin (she/they)
Artist
Brooklyn, NY
