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We are honored to announce the recipients of 2023 Wherewithal Grants. The twelve artists and collectives, each of whom will receive $5,000 to support research or projects, are: Alina Collins Maldonado, Ama BE, Andy Johnson, Anisa Olufemi & Jada-Amina, Athena Naylor, Cecilia Kim, Hope Willis & Safiyah Cheatam, Mojdeh Rezaeipour, Fid Thompson & Neha Misra, Niki Afsar, The Shmutzik Shmates, and Stephanie Mercedes.
Over the next year, these artists will organize public-facing projects and conduct research around topics such as sonic architectures of Black music, practices of care and repair, futurity, land stewardship, invisible transnational labor, eco-art, and archiving the current women-led revolution in Iran.
An independent panel of four artists and curators reviewed 124 applications and recommended the final twelve for funding. The panelists were Fabiola R. Delgado, Experience Developer, Anacostia Community Museum (Washington, DC); Curry Hackett, Artist & Educator (Washington, DC); Thomas F. James, Executive Director, The Last Resort Artist Retreat (Baltimore, MD); and Taylor Roberts, Special Projects & Research Manager, 3Arts (Chicago, IL).
About Wherewithal Grants
Wherewithal Grants are a funding source for artists in the DC-area. Generously funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its Regional Regranting Program and managed by WPA, these grants are intended to support a wide range of experimental and multidisciplinary practices, particularly those that emphasize collaboration and discourse. Since launching in 2019, Wherewithal Grants has supported 136 visual artists with a total of $280,000 in grants.