10 NPN Artists Receive Creative Capital Awards
January 16, 2019 • 2 minute read
NPN celebrates the announcement of the 2019 Creative Capital Awards, including 10 Network-supported artists and projects. The 50 selected projects will receive up to $50,000 in project funding and an additional $50,000 in long-term career development support — a total value of $100,000.
The projects were selected from a pool of over 5,200 applications, and they represent “some of the most exciting work being conducted in all disciplines,” according to Creative Capital’s press release (read more).
Please join us in congratulating the following artists:
- niv Acosta (Brooklyn) – “BLACK POWER NAPS”
- Charlotte Brathwaite (New York) – “Forgotten Paradise: Gazette’s Sun”
- Paul Flores, Rosalba Rolon, & Yosvany Terry (San Francisco) – “We Have Iré”
- Linda Parris-Bailey (Knoxville, TN) – “Yankee Bajan”
- Samora Pinderhughes (New York) – “I’m Still Here: Reflections on Trauma and Healing (aka The Healing Project)”
- Michael Premo (Brooklyn) – “Untitled Documentary Project”
- Martha Redbone & Aaron Whitby (Brooklyn) – “Daughter of the Hills”
- Alice Sheppard (Los Altos, CA) – “Descent”
- Cristal Chanelle Truscott (Houston & Washington, D.C.) – “Plantation Remix”
- Shontina Vernon (Seattle) – “Forging Ahead”