BROOKLYN MUSEUM AND INSTAGRAM ANNOUNCE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2022 BLACK VISIONARIES’ GRANTS
The Brooklyn Museum and Instagram, in collaboration with #BlackVisionaries Creative Chair Antwaun Sargent announced the ten recipients of the 2022 grant program.
The program, now in its second year, gives $650.000 in grants awarded to Black artists, designers and to Black-led Businesses: five $100,000 Visionary Small Business Grants for Black-led organizations focused on design and five $30,000 Emerging Visionary Grants for Black individuals focused on art and design, awarded with the support of Meta Open Arts. The aim is to uplift, center and invest in Black voices and organizations working in art and design.
$30,000 Emerging Visionary Grant Recipients: Albert Hicks IV, Anaïs Duplan, Christopher Joshua Benton, Cornelius Tulloch and Jaline McPherson.
$100,000 Visionary Small Business Grant Recipients: Black Fashion Fair, The Black School: Design Studio, Dark Matter U, Pacific and Strada.
As part of this year’s program, the Brooklyn Museum and Instagram will also provide mentorship to each grant recipient in partnership with Mobile Makers, a nonprofit organization that offers design and skill-building workshops to youths in Chicago and Boston communities.
This year’s grant recipients were selected by a committee of artists and designers led by curator and writer Antwaun Sargent. Members are Elle Decor Editor-in-Chief Asad Syrkett, Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter, and Director of Metaverse Design at Meta Ian Spalter.
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Albert L. Hicks IV is half of the design and research studio Ayem, alongside Marcus Washington Jr. Ayem is interested in how communities, spaces, and objects shape culture, language, and perspective.
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Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. In 2016, Duplan founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, a residency program for artists of color in Iowa City, Iowa, where he received his MFA and where he remains a curator.
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Through cultivating retail spaces and experiences, Black Fashion Fair supports the ideas and continued growth of Black designers and Black-owned brands.
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The Black School: Design Studio, founded by Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters, is a full-service design firm and consultancy that uses a community-engaged approach to design products, environments, experiences, and systems.
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Christopher Joshua Benton is an American film and installation artist based in Abu Dhabi and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Benton works closely with communities to instigate collaboration and share stories of power, labor, and hope.
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Cornelius Tulloch is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. With work transcending the definitions of photography, fine art, and architecture, Tulloch focuses on how creative mediums can be combined to tell powerful stories.
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Dark Matter U is a BIPOC-led, antiracist design justice network collectively seeking the radical transformation of education and practice for a just future. Formed during summer 2020 in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and others, DMU aims to work inside and outside existing systems in order to challenge, inform, and reshape our world.
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Jaline McPherson is a designer, artist, and writer who seeks to elevate stories of Black cultural landscapes and ethnobotanical histories. Her most recent research used plants, reimagined public spaces, and magic to create an abundant future for the first Black freedmen’s town in the United States.
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Pacific, a multidisciplinary creative studio and publishing house, was founded by Elizabeth Karp-Evans and Adam Turnbull in 2017. Their work is centered on creating design and communication systems that innovate and build community at the intersection of art, publishing, placemaking, technology, and culture.
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In 2021, at the age of twenty-two, Paul Hill founded Strada, a New York City–based art gallery and online marketplace creating equitable opportunities for young emerging artists.
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