SEATTLE, October 24 — The Seattle Office of Arts and Culture is proud to announce recipients of $180,000 for the 2024 CityArtist grants. This annual grant supports Seattle-based individual creatives, cultural-makers, and curators in various stages of their careers, providing essential funding for the research, development, and presentation of new works.
For the 2024 cycle, 24 creatives working in Literary, Media/Digital/Film (including Screenwriting), and Visual Arts will receive $5,000 and $8,000 awards with two-year contracts. Awardees may use funding for various purposes, including research, salaries, supplies, equipment, publicity, and transportation. Each individual will offer a public presentation in Seattle, contributing to the city’s vibrant cultural sector throughout 2024-25.
“The CityArtist grant program plays a crucial role in sustaining and advancing the careers of individual artists and curators who are the heart of our cultural sector,” said Gülgün Kayim, Interim Director of the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. “This initiative not only supports artistic endeavors but also enriches the quality of life for communities throughout the city.”
The Seattle Office of Arts and Culture is committed to supporting a diverse range of artistic and cultural expressions that reflect Seattle’s diversity of cultures, voices, and experiences.
For more information on the CityArtist grant program, please visit the CityArtist webpage.
A SAMPLE OF WHAT TO EXPECT
Karen Finneyfrock’s artistic life is punctuated by personal loss where work leaped from poetry to fiction and then resurfaced in poetry as a forum for healing, including climate change and the menopause mid-life transition that all inform the development and production of a poetry manuscript.
Filmmaker, storyteller, and musician Mindie Lind’s artwork will seek to change perceptions about adaptation, ableism, or “crip life” that is its own source of creativity.
Artist and independent curator Rafael Soldi will present a photo-media-installation exploring bilingualism, inquiry to unravel systems of power and violence that address immigration, memory, masculinity, queerness, and language in Latin America.
2024 AWARDEES
iole alessandrini, Visual
Janeé Baugher, Literary
Flora Carlile-Kovacs, Visual
Jo Cosme, Visual
Rachel Edelman, Literary
Karen Finneyfrock, Literary
Wes Hurley, Media/Film
Satpreet Kahlon, Visual
Sarah Kavage, Visual
Mischa Jakupcak, Media/Film
Britta Johnson, Media/Film
Fulgencio Lazo, Visual
Mindie Lind, Media/Film
Margie Livingston, Visual
Holly Martz, Visual
Katie Miller, Visual
Hanako O’Leary, Visual
Katherine Rhoads, Visual
Rafael Soldi, Visual
W. Scott Trimble, Visual
Brenetta Ward, Visual
Stewart Wong, Visual
Laura Wright, Visual
Chandra Wu, Visual
