Past
Grantees

The artist will travel to Lebanon to research the use of Western advertising and its relationship to the post conflict urban landscape in Beirut, Sidon, and Tyre, informing her current photographic work.

The artist will travel to the Josef Labadie Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she will draw inpiration from its conceptual and formal organization in order to further her own practice inspired by her late father's radical archive.

The artist will travel to Paris, France and Berlin, Germany to study historical and contemporary trends in tapestry weaving, and installation art in order to further develop his body of woven tapestries based on contemporary political struggles of black men in America.

The artist will travel to Germany to do research for her project "Refuge," a series of photographs of the new domestic situations in which refugees and Germans find themselves in and around Berlin.

The artist will travel to the Venice Art Biennale, Documenta 14, Sculpture Project Munster, EKSIG Alive. Active. Adaptive Conference, and Dutch Design Week. Collectively, these experiences will help her gather information about contemporary art, design, and materials in order to inform her works going forward.

The artist will travel to Berlin for intensive interview-based research in preparation for a series of works about the displacement of Syrian refugees, and Berlin's changed role as a destination for refugees rather than a place to flee.

The curator will strengthen and deepen her practice through an immersive study of the Syzygy collection of works on paper, traveling to New York City, and Boulder and Denver, Colorado, to study it in various contexts—in archive and in exhibition.

The artist would take part in the Arctic Circle Residency to engage in climate-related issues and build on the collaborations between other professionals in order to create tools that could enrich the public's experience of visiting the NYC Watershed model at the Queens Museum (where she current works).

The artist will travel to Istanbul, Turkey to attend a workshop with the Institute of Islamic Pattern in addition to studying traditional Islamic art and patternmaking through visits to historic sites, museums, and artist studios. She will also engage with the Syrian community, examining communication in a diaspora and seeing how traditions and religious experiences change and morph during times of great disaster.

The artist will study in Thailand and Vietnam to learn the delicate and extinct Hmong textile handiwork from a select few remaining Hmong Master Artisans in Southeast Asia in order to expand her creative practice in exploring Hmong cultural identity through textile art.

The artist will travel to former nuclear testing former nuclear testing and development sites in Nevada and New Mexico to foster a deeper understanding of what it is to live in the nuclear age. This will serve as research for the artist's hand-drawn animation, “Now I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.”

The artist will live and study in Chicago, IL to study the Dean C. Worcester Collection of Philippine Photographs, Damián Domingo’s Costume Album, and the book “El folk-lore Filipino” by Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino in the Newberry Library’s extensive Philippine Collection—images from the early years of imperial American conquest of Filipinos.

The artist will travel to Iceland to conduct an experiential investigation into its varied examples of weather. She will have an artist residency in western Iceland and travel to the eastern fjords to experience its climate diversity.

The artist will study printmaking techniques at the Bentlage Printmaking Association at the Kloster Bentlage in Rheine, Germany to strengthen her printmaking skills and inform new ways to approach her studio process. She will also visit and conduct related research in Hengelo, Netherlands, and at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

The artist will travel by car to visit 24 socialist-era monuments in the former Yugoslavia, throughout Bosnia and Hercegovina, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Serbia.

The artist will travel to Chicago, IL to train in the performative aspect of contemporary puppet theater (puppet manipulation) from Asian American master puppeteer Tom Lee.

The artist will travel to the porcelain capital—Jingdezhen, China—to learn about blue-and-white painting and famille rose decoration from traditional craftsmen and contemporary Chinese ceramic artists.

The artist will return to her birth city of Seoul, Korea in order to continue her research into her relationship to Korean culture—a pursuit which has had transformative effects on her studio practice as a textile artist and continues to show strong generative potential for future projects.

ARANGO, MAURICIO, Brooklyn, New York, will travel to Bogotá, Santa Marta, and Medellín, Colombia, to conduct research related to the political violence that has gripped the country, meeting with governmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals involved in the coverage and analysis of decades of violence. The tumultuous social history of Colombia, Arango’s home country, has led him to consider how deeply traumatic events permeate the conditions of everyday life. The trip will offer him the time to gather experiences, thoughts, and ideas that will influence and shape future artwork.

BEEBE, AARON, Brooklyn, New York, will travel to Kolkata, India, to examine the history and contemporary labor practices of jute production in preparation for an installation work to be created in collaboration with an Indian documentary filmmaker, Nishtha Jain. Beebe will visit 19th century jute mills and the Indian Museum, which champions the early industrial arts of the same era. The research into contemporary labor practices and popular depictions of the jute industry will inform a new collaborative project that explores the relationships between the early history and pre-history of film and India’s global industrial power during British Colonial rule.