AMI DANG

to support Bhai Vir Singh’s Lost Melodies, a song cycle and installation featuring lyrics and music compositions from Kambdi Kalai, a poetry collection by Vir Singh (the artist's great, great grandfather) with original musical arrangements for sitar, voice, harmonium, dilruba, tabla, and electronics.

CHEYANNE ZADIA GIVENS

to support Vacants, an episodic series depicting a poetic portrait of a seemingly decaying West Baltimore

COLETTE KROGOL and MATT REEVES

to support A&I, a new performer and AI (Artificial Intelligence) operated dance and multimedia performance that uses smart home technology on a theatrical scale. The work questions how we see and care for the technologies we have created, which hold up the fragile ecosystems of modern society. Once complete they will present A&I with their company, Orange Grove Dance.

DIANA WHARTON SENNAAR

to support Carry On, a new American musical that tells the story of tribulations and triumphs for a group of senior living facility residents at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JIMMY JOE ROCHE

to support A Complete History of the Known Universe, an experimental, narrative feature film about a group of eccentric drifters gathered on the fringes of society, planning for the end of the world.

LAURA WEXLER

to support American Love Story, a docu-play created from the verbatim transcript of an infamous 1925 trial in which a husband seeks to annul his marriage, claiming his wife deceived him about her race.

NATE LARSON

to support El Puente: On Juvenile Incarceration in Argentina, an empathetic documentary project using photography, oral history interviews, and direct collaboration to honor and empower incarcerated youth in Argentina.

NIA JUNE

to support What Goes Down When You Love Somebody, a visual poem and three-part episodic series illustrating milestones of Black love. It follows one family’s evolution through the decades with each episode set in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, all against the tapestry of a Baltimore row home.

ZARA KAHAN

to support Come Into My Arms, a film which follows a Filipino-American archivist on a quest to uncover the origins of a mysterious film, leading her to confront her repressed emotions over her abusive mother's death while a dashing ghost from her homeland haunts her.

ADITYA DESAI

to support Bombay, Oregon, a novel manuscript following two branches of a working class Gujarati American family across generations as they mourn loss and survive economic precarity.

S. M. PRESCOTT

to support Already, Not Yet, a collaborative audio book of liturgies for trans lives and subsequent installation.

DAVE EASSA

to support People and Places You Don't Know How to Know Yet, a body of work that combines, painting, and installation, exploring the artist's cultural roots and heritage from the Middle East.

TAFISHA EDWARDS

to support Asunder, a poetry collection that will interrogate how Black women’s bodies, minds, and lives are contorted under societal pressures and violence.

CHUNG-WEI HUANG in collaboration with MUYU YUAN RUBA

to support Days Without End, a video project that merges film, choreography, and dance, to tell an immigrant story of endless waiting, based on the experiences the artists had while waiting for U.S. Green Cards.

JAIMES MAYHEW

to support A Different Horizon Atlas, a project that will create a series of five large scale atlas maps of utopic geographies imagined by groups of LGBTQAI+ people through interactive workshops.

TARIQ DARRELL O’MEALLY

to support Straw Into Gold Pt 2: Songs of the Moon & Good Grief, a dance series that will focus on gratitude to the Black women in the artist’s life & the relationship between grief and praise, in collaboration with four Black female DMV-based dance artists.

SHAN WALLACE

to support All Nighter, a documentary film that explores and tells the history of the Baltimore LGBTQ night flife scene, through interviews, audio soundbites, animation, and collections from private archives.

MARC CARY

to support People of the First Light: The Wampanoag Story, a musical suite and accompanying short video documentary that tells the Thanksgiving story from an indigenous perspective using jazz, electronic exploration, and Go Go music.

SUZANNE COLEY

to support Love Sonnets from Shakespeare to Baltimore, a project using the text of Shakespeare’s sonnets, recycled wedding dresses, quilts, and original printmaking to create finely crafted couture art books.

JOSHUA CLARK DAVIS

to support the nonfiction work Police and the Movement, which traces the history of conflict between police officers and the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

JALEN EUTSEY

to support the poetry manuscript Morsel, a coming-of-age tale set in the artist’s hometown neighborhood of West Perrine, Miami that touches on place, race, grief, and intimacy of all kinds. 

TAHIR HEMPHILL

to support Rap Lyrics as Criminal Evidence, a research platform and community data project that will catalog, connect, and analyze the lyrics of 500,000 rap songs to uncover the intersections between popular culture, artificial intelligence, the abuses of criminal justice, and Blackness.

JONNA MCKONE

to support Slow Drift, a photography project that explores how former plantations in Maryland connect to land modification, biodiversity, and development in the present, shaping the environmental history and collective memory of the state. 

PRECIOUS BLAKE

to support the pilot of Celestial Beings, a collection of oral stories, portraits, and visual ephemera documenting Black femme creative spiritual practices that will culminate in audio recordings, an illustrated zine, and community healing events.

PHILL BRANCH

to support Rolling Stops, a one-person storytelling show that examines living outside the prescribed definitions of blackness and masculinity.

CAITLIN CARBONE & JOSH THOMAS

to support a hip hop adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar which will focus on Brutus and Cassius’ relationship as complex, emotional, and intimate in order to challenge the idea of “Roman stoicism” as a pillar of masculinity.

RACHAEL UWADA CLIFFORD

to support the writing of What the Year Will Swallow, a novel-in-stories that explores the lives of three interconnected black families living in the United States and Nigeria. The project will imaginatively examine what it means to come of age through the context of migration, both forced and voluntary, past and recent.

ANNA FITZGERALD

to support the beginning phase of When You Make a Broken Heart, a crankie-based performance that will explore stories of motherhood, destruction, broken hearts, and finding peace in chaos.

TRAVIS LEVASSEUR

to support Döner Party, a multimedia installation centered around a pioneer-themed playground exploring the continuing manifestation of theft, violence, and greed as principles that founded the United States.

LISA MOREN

in collaboration with biologist Tsvetan Bachvaroff, to support the development of Stories Under the Bay, which imagines the underwater life of the Chesapeake Bay through originally composed music, stories, and visualizations and which will be accessed via an augmented reality application.

JUNG YUN

to support the completion of O Beautiful, a novel set in the oil fields of western North Dakota, which follows a journalist who returns to her home state to write about the oil boom and the prosperity and challenges that come along with it.

ANDREW HOLTER
BALTIMORE

to support Hello, Fellow Worker, the first biography of Baltimore-bred, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Murray Kempton, whose professional life spans from H.L. Mencken to Tupac Shakur and which will give new insight to 20th century American history and politics.

ASHLIE KAUFFMAN
WHITE HALL

to support a collection of personal essays and short fiction vignettes that examines the dynamics and legacy of racial "passing," exploring its intersection with memory, loss, and other topics.

BENJAMIN NAKA-HASEBE KINGSLEY
BALTIMORE

to support a collection of narrative poems troubling Indigenous American identity, local neighborhoods, family heritage, and sites of violence.

FAHIMEH VAHDAT
COLUMBIA

to support a mixed media installation that will include large scale wall pieces, a safe room, and sound recordings to look at the parallels and differences of the women’s movement and current state of domestic violence between Iran and the United States.

BONNIE JONES
BALTIMORE

to support 10 Siberian Tigers, 1500 Red-crowned Cranes, an immersive sound and video art project that will use found sounds, field recordings, and text-based video interviews to explore themes of migration, borders, and the wild nature that can grow within in-between spaces, specifically that of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

A. MOON
BALTIMORE

to support Hapaxes, an experimental non-fiction video which uses reenactments and voice-over commentary to mine meaning from a previously-hidden trove of personal photos in an effort to understand a suppressed family history as well as the denotative limits of visual representation.

GIANNA RODRIGUEZ
BALTIMORE

to support I Know I Can’t Do This Forever, a dance theater piece inspired by the impact of living with multiple sclerosis and which explores concepts of losing control, giving in, and adapting life through objects, bodies, and figures.

JULES ROSSKAM
BALTIMORE

to support Dance, Dance, Evolution, a short documentary film that explores transgender people’s relationship to dance.

CELESTE DOAKS
BALTIMORE

to support a collection of historical poems that reflect on the life of Mary Ellen Pleasant, also known as Mammy Pleasant, who is noted as an extraordinary 19th century entrepreneur and mother of the West Coast early civil rights movement.

TIFFANY LANGE
BALTIMORE

to support The Shoestring Project, a series of vignettes that use puppets and crafted scenes to illustrate personal responses to modern issues and locally relevant topics.

ADA PINKSTON
BALTIMORE

to support Landmarked, a performative intervention and installation about historical landmarks, monuments, and their relationship to contemporary community.

KATE REED PETTY
BALTIMORE

to support Practice Losing Faster, a novel about a woman who helps evacuate her hometown after a catastrophic flood and, in the process, confronts her own submerged memories—as well as larger themes of collective guilt, grief, and climate change.

ERNEST SHAW AND KENNETH MORRISON
BALTIMORE

to support an interdisciplinary project that will create portraits, poetry, and record interviews to explore the complexity of Black manhood.

ELISSA BLOUNT MOORHEAD
BALTIMORE

to support research for and development of As of A Now, a film projection to be located on currently vacant buildings that imagine and evoke the stories of their varied occupants’ past, present, and future.

ALEXIS RENEE
BALTIMORE

to support Sweet Tea and Stardust, a multidisciplinary dance piece from the Masala Soul Project, a dance and theater project that centers the stories and imaginations of communities of color across multiple diasporas. The work will weave together sound, spoken word, text, film and dance to present and perform Black and Brown collective magic and joy as resistance.

KATIE SHLON
BALTIMORE

to support the production and exhibition of a sculptural sound installation which investigates how we experience sound visually and spatially, as part of work with an international arts collective.

LENDL TELLINGTON
BALTIMORE

to support ...that's why He made momma, a feature length documentary following four generations of a black family as they piece together a legacy after America’s Great Recession.

TT THE ARTIST
BALTIMORE

to support Dark City: Beneath the Beat, an experimental, musical, documentary film that reimagines the narrative of Baltimore City through the break beats of Baltimore club music and dance.

MICHAEL DOWNS
BALTIMORE

to support Sefton Stories (Miniatures), a series of short nonfiction essays that explore lives, events, and relationships within the author’s Baltimore neighborhood during the Great Recession.

CARLA DU PREE
COLUMBIA

to support Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, a novel that speaks to loss, regret, and blessings as told through the voices of Eudora, the daughter, and M'dear, the mother, both part of a young, African-American military family traveling by car through the uncivil South during the 60s and early 70s.

KIMI HANAUER
BALTIMORE

to support Press Press, an interdisciplinary publishing initiative that will act as a site of social exchange at its new storefront location downtown on 427 N Eutaw Street that will house publishing resources, a library, and programming space.

KEI ITO AND ANDREW PAUL KEIPER
BALTIMORE

support Afterimage Requiem, a large-scale photographic and sound installation that contemplates the development of the atomic bomb, the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, and the ongoing legacy of this history.

ANDREW KLEIN
BALTIMORE

to support Breezewood, a collection of poems that take as its subject the history, highways, geography, and mythology of a small town in Southern Pennsylvania.

SUSAN MUADDI DARRAJ
PHOENIX

to support Brotherly Love, a novel about two immigrant Arab American families adapting to life in South Philadelphia during the 1970s.

RENÉ TREVIÑO
BALTIMORE

to support Codex / Constellations, a series of paintings on animal hide that combine imagery from ancient Mexican codices with queer symbols and narratives to produce new, imagined constellations.

TEMPLE CROCKER
BALTIMORE

to support Come Shining, a performance and installation where the stories of older adults living with dementia and memory loss are embodied and shared. Come Shining hopes to provide an alternative to the cultural narrative that defines aging as a steady process of loss and degeneration, instead revealing the imaginative potential at every stage of life. 

AMBERLY ALENE ELLIS

MILFORD MILL

to support Reclaiming Douglass, a documentary film that follows the journey of ten African American students from Frederick Douglass Senior High School, in West Baltimore, as they travel to Cuba to experience an alternative history program exploring the African Diaspora.

MARGARET RORISON
BALTIMORE

to support Restoration of a Memory, a silent short film, to be shot in 16mm, which documents the architectural landscape and formal beauty of the city of Baltimore. 

ADAM ROSENBLATT
BALTIMORE

to support a new interpretation of Laplace Tiger, a composition for drumset and electronics by Alexander Schubert, which will include expanded instrumentation and audience participation.

PAUL RUCKER
BALTIMORE

to support LIVEMORE, a community-based, interdisciplinary installation that examines and re-envisions the history of the transatlantic slave trade between Liverpool, England and Baltimore.

JULIA KIM SMITH
BALTIMORE

to support The Real Wi-Fi of Baltimore, a digital video featuring a punny and nuanced view of the city of Baltimore through the names of its wi-fi networks.

MARIAN GLEBES
BALTIMORE

to support a year-long, collaborative, interdisciplinary project that explores relationships with the materials of home and connects them to the larger notion of place.

JEN GROW
BALTIMORE COUNTY

to support My Father’s House, a series of photographs with a personal essay that explore ideas around loss of home, identity, and history.

NATE LARSON
BALTIMORE

to support a project of photographic portraits of Sandtown-Winchester community members and make visible their lives, their struggles, and their triumphs to create a fuller portrait of life in Baltimore.

COURTNEY SENDER
BALTIMORE

to support work on the novel The God of Longing, that follows three characters from each of the Abrahamic religions over the course of 40 years into their futures and 4,000 years into their families’ pasts.

TONY SHORE
BALTIMORE

to support the creation of new paintings in response to the Baltimore Uprising.

STEPHEN TOWNS
BALTIMORE

to support Take Me Away to the Stars, a quilting project that will explore ways in which one processes violence through escapism, religion, and myth using the historic and mythological tales of Nat Turner’s rebellion.

NAOKO MAESHIBA
BALTIMORE

to support Subject/Object, a solo performance project that investigates the nature of “self” through deconstruction and redefinition with the use of video, sound, poetry and clowning as the exploration tools.

A. MOON BALTIMORE

to support I Am Learning to Abandon the World, a 16mm, silent film composed of the non-explicit shots culled from a trove of vintage “adult” films that will create a narrative that studies female subjectivity, mood without action and that which cannot be represented.

MARA NEIMANIS
BALTIMORE

to support Cross Over Stories, a series of three onsite aerial performance pieces designed to transform Baltimore urban spaces into innovative performance spots.

JUANITA ROCKWELL
BALTIMORE

to support the creation of the script, lyrics and music for A Little Patch of Ground, a darkly comic play with songs set in the bloody aftermath of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

OLU BUTTERFLY WOODS
BALTIMORE

to support the creation of the first three installments of Lookout, a grassroots documentary film series on the rhythm and hustle of Baltimore’s performing arts and live music scene.

LOLA PIERSON
BALTIMORE

to support A Day by Yourself, a collection of twelve short stories that embrace action, tone, and other theatrical elements as expressed through language. The structure of the work will be cumulative rather than a linear narrative, and will present a series of literary snapshots, constructing a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.

REBEKAH REMINGTON
CATONSVILLE

to support the completion of Sliced Bread and Wine, a book-length manuscript of meditative lyric poems that explores the fraught intersections of mothering, consumer culture, and the redemptive act of making.

GREGG WILHELM
BALTIMORE

to support the completion of Backbeat the Waves, a novel set in 1977 in Patapsco City, in which an ailing one-armed cousin from Appalachia upends the world of a teenaged protagonist. Also supported is a related city-wide literary geo-caching campaign and public lecture.

MELISSA WYSE
BALTIMORE

to support Moon Over Sand Island, a collection of short fiction set during World War II and linked by its characters’ complex relationships with wartime Hawaii.  The stories delve into the experiences of lei sellers, soldiers, civil servants, and pineapple plantation workers who wrestle with ties of nationality, gender, and ethnic identity.

LU ZHANG
BALTIMORE

to support I Spent a Year with The George Peabody Library, a site-specific book that documents the artist’s exploration of the Library’s archives and which will reside in its permanent collection and be part of an accompanying exhibition.

ERIC DYER
BALTIMORE

to support the creation of The Zoetrope Tunnel, a 9-foot tall by 20-foot long working walk-through sculpture whose interior animation describes the evolution of the bicycle, both in mechanical development as well as in social impact.

RICH ESPEY
TOWSON

for research and development of a new play, Tea with Nelson and Betsie, which explores the moment in 1995 when Nelson Mandela had tea with the widow of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd (the “architect of apartheid”) in the all-white enclave of Orania, South Africa.

CARL GRUBBS
BALTIMORE

to write and arrange new compositions for The Inner Harbor Suite: Revisited, an audio tribute to Baltimore featuring saxophones, strings, group improvisation and ensemble performance.

KEL MILLIONIE
BALTIMORE

to create an aerial theater production, Fight or Flight, that examines this human condition through the use of aerial movement, invented structures, intense choreography, soundscapes, sampled music and video projections.

PAT MONTLEY
LUTHERVILLE

to expand a one-act script into a full length play – Pope Joan II – which tells the story of an American nun who becomes pope and tries to transform the church into a liberal democracy.

KWAME OPARE
BALTIMORE

to choreograph, develop and produce the theatrical dance performance Triumph of Disruption, working in conjunction with and featuring students from a local arts secondary school.

MATTHEW PORTERFIELD
BALTIMORE

to support the development of Sollers Point, a feature film about one Baltimore man’s return to society after a period of incarceration.

GLENN RICCI
BALTIMORE

to produce The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe, an immersive, interactive theater experience that focuses on the women in Poe's life and their influence on his fiction.

OLIVIA ROBINSON
BALTIMORE

to support the creation of Near and Far Enemies, a media installation of large-scale electronic textile circuits that describes the relationship between racism, wealth and science.

DAVID SMOOKE
BALTIMORE

to compose A Baby Bigger Grows Than Up Was, an ensemble piece for a baritone singer, bass clarinet, trumpet and trombone that uses an alphabetical tale by the Baltimore writer Michael Kimball as inspiration.