Boxx The Artist

Visual Artist

Boxx The Artist synthesizes expressionistic portraiture through acrylic paintings, digital art, and public installations that examines the African Diaspora providing cultural images that honor a marginalized community. Her work captures different elements of life promoting health, wealth, wellness, and celebrating Blackness.

Jennifer Scheuer

Visual Artist & Printmaker

Scheuer’s work addresses themes of history, plants, the body, and healing. She is an assistant professor of printmaking in the Rueff School of Design, Art and Performance at Purdue University. With the support of this award, she will focus her creative practice in exploration of artist books.

Anila Agha

Visual Artist

Her new installation, "Gathering Storms," will reference the effects of climate change on racial and class dynamics

Artur Teixiera da Silva

Multimedia Artist

His work aims to challenge the mythology around the military and spotlight how this myth affects all Americans, but specifically new immigrants of color.

Bryan Ballinger

Muralist

His murals set animals–human and otherwise–in settings that suggest a story that viewers can make their own.

Kelvin Burzon

Multimedia Artist

Burzon's work explores the intersections of sexuality, race, gender, and religion. It is driven by his Pilipino-American background, interest in religion's role in culture and familial relationships, as well as Catholicism's traditions, imagery, theatricality, and its psychological vestige.

Laura Foster Nicholson

Weaver

Her large-scale tapestry will explore the "beauty/desolation" of industrial agriculture and its impact on climate change.

Beatriz Vásquez

Visual Artivist

Vásquez's work experiments with the conceptual use of papel picado, a Mexican Folk art. She transforms layers of intricate cut paper into murals, creates wearable sculptures, and exhibits large-scale installations. Vasquez will use the grant to preserve her delicate and detailed hand-cut paper murals in a secure climate-controlled environment.

Eric Lubrick

Photographer

Lubrick is a photographer whose work represents a visual collection of deconstructing and reconstructing autobiographical moments. His unnamed project is inspired by COVID-19, the political environment, and art-world stereotypes. His project will transform sculptural floral compositions into words or phrases that resonate with many of these divisive themes.

Mason Archie

Painter

Archie is a landscape and figurative painter. His project “The Risk and Beauty of Humanity: Landscapes of the Underground Railroad.” will use landscapes and waterscapes to document historical sites of the Underground Railroad in Indiana as they currently exist. He will also create a book providing historical data on the selected sites. 

Samuel Levi Jones

Visual Artivist

Jones, a visual artist/activist, will study innovations in papermaking. During his studies, he will develop and complete a comprehensive, large-scale body of two-dimensional work completed with paper from books on the twentieth-century history of Bartholomew County, Indiana. Jones will also learn how to create large, three-dimensional paper sculptures.