Brother Thomas Fund and Fellows Program

“We all share a creative goal with art. The goal is difficult; it is an invitation to change the world.”

-Brother Thomas Bezanson

The Brother Thomas Fellowship is now accepting applications and nominations. See more information on the application process, key dates, and helpful links including the link to apply below.

The Brother Thomas Fund was established at the Boston Foundation in 2007 to honor the legacy of Brother Thomas Bezanson, a Benedictine monk and world-renowned ceramic artist, who wanted the sale of his work to help other artists, as his friends had helped him.

Bernie Sue Pucker
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Toward the end of his life, Brother Thomas joined forces with Sue and Bernie Pucker, owners of the Pucker Gallery on Boston’s Newbury Street, to continue his legacy. 

The goal of the biennial Brother Thomas Fellowship program is to support and celebrate a diverse group of Greater Boston artists working at a high level of excellence in a range of disciplines—the visual, performing, literary, media and craft arts—and to enhance their ability to thrive and create new work. The Boston Foundation also hopes that fellowship winners will have greater access to a variety of markets, including galleries, residencies and commissions, and that the importance of artists to the vitality of Boston will be more broadly recognized.

To continue to support Greater Boston artists working at a high level of excellence, we are excited to announce that each Brother Thomas Fellow will now receive an unrestricted award of $20,000 as well as the opportunity to attend up to two Brother Thomas Fellow convenings between grant cycles.  Previous recipients of the Brother Thomas Fellowship cannot apply as this is a one-time opportunity. 

Award Process

Brother Thomas Fellows are selected in alternate years based on an inclusive, two-step process of application and panel review. In the past, the initial pool of artist applicants was selected by a diverse group of nominators from Boston’s large pool of nonprofit arts leaders, academics, gallerists, collectors, and for-profit arts presenters. 

This year, we are pleased to announce the addition of an open application to the nomination pool. Applicants, as well as individuals identified by nominators, should identify as mid-career or established artists; this ensures that fellowships are awarded to individuals who have made a firm commitment to their creative practice and are working at a high level of achievement. Applicants and nominators should also consider artists who are at a catalytic moment in their life and career when a fellowship could have a transformative impact.

Applications will be reviewed and discussed by a multi-disciplinary panel convened at the Boston Foundation. All panelists complete a conflict-of-interest disclosure form to ensure a fair and equitable process. Should a conflict-of-interest arise, these individuals do not participate in this portion of the panel process. 

If you are eligible and interested in applying, please be sure to read the Brother Thomas Application Process document below. Applicants will be able to submit narrative responses via video recording; if utilizing this option, please be sure to read the Video Submission FAQs, linked below. If you are a nominator and would like to submit the name of an artist to apply for a Fellowship, follow the link below to access the Brother Thomas Nominator Form. 

   

More about Brother Thomas

Brother Thomas Bezanson photo

The ceramic work of Brother Thomas Bezanson is displayed in more than 80 museums around the world, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Vatican. The largest and most diverse collection is in the Pucker Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. Owners Sue and Bernie Pucker had represented Brother Thomas’ work over the decades and became his close friends. Toward the end of his life, they joined forces to create a legacy to benefit other artists: Today, proceeds of the sale of his works held by the Pucker Gallery go to the Brother Thomas Fellowships.

Brother Thomas knew that for most artists, the journey is a challenging one, and that even established artists may struggle for the resources they need to advance their art. The biennial Brother Thomas Fellowship program supports and celebrates a diverse group of Greater Boston artists working at a high level of excellence in the visual, performing, literary, media and craft arts—bolstering their ability to thrive and create new work.

Brother Thomas Fellowships 2023 cover Read or download the 2023 program

Key Dates

Application Open: December 2, 2024

Application Close: January 5, 2025

Tentative Notification: April 2025

Sabrina Avilés
Filmmaker and Founder & Executive Director of CineFest Latino Boston

Victoria Lynn Awkward
Director of VLA DANCE

Daniel Callahan
Multidisciplinary Artist

Cicely Carew
Artist

Catarina Coelho
Artist

Monica Cohen
Documentarian, Video Producer

Joëlle Fontaine
Multimedia Artist

Paul Goodnight
Painter

Tim Hall
Artist, Educator, Connector

Elisa H. Hamilton
Multimedia Artist

Lucy Kim
Visual Artist

Ashton Lites
Founder, President, StiggityStackz Worldwide Inc.

Silvia Lopez Chavez
Artist

U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo
Interdisciplinary Artist, Author, Educator

Cassandra Queen
Artist

Kathryn Ramey
Filmmaker

Ellen Schön
Ceramic Artist

Anjali Srinivasan
Artist, Associate Professor at MassArt

Zahili Zamora
Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Educator

2023 Brother Thomas Fellows Brochure

Josephine Burr
Ceramics

L’Merchie Frazier
Fabrics & Textiles

Dey Hernández
Interdisciplinary Performance

Kaovanny Holguin
Music Performance

Jonathan Bailey Holland
Music Composition

Tatiana Johnson-Boria
Literary Arts: Poetry

Fred Liang
Mixed Media/Ceramics

Fabiola M. Mendez
Music Performance

Patricia Zarate Perez
Music Performance

Moe Pope
Music Performance

Allison Maria Rodriguez
Video Installation

Grace Talusan
Literary Arts: Writing

Chanel Thervil
Mixed Media

Susan Thompson
Fabric & Textiles

Cynthia Yee
Literary Arts: Writing

Karen Young
Cultural Organizing

Read the 2021 Fellows bios

Jorge Santiago Arce
Performing Artist

Anjimile Chithambo
Musician

Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga
Dancer/Performer

Robert Gibbs
Muralist

Ashe Gordon
Musician (Violist)

Arthur Halvorsen
Ceramicist

Yara Liceaga-Rojas
Poet/Performer

Porsha Olayiwola
Poet

Oompa
Musician

Valerie Stephens
Performing Artist/Storyteller

Billy Dean Thomas
Musician

Kyla Toomey
Ceramicist

Read the 2019 Brother Thomas Fellows announcement

Download the 2019 Brother Thomas brochure

Jean Appolon
Choreographer/Dance Educator

Sandeep Das
Musician

Maya Erdelyi
Animator/Director

Maria Finkelmeier
Percussionist/Composer

Patrick Gabridge
Playwright/Author

Regie Gibson
Performer/Poet

Stephen Hamilton
Visual Artist/Educator

Kathryn King
Ceramic Artist/Teacher

Shaw Pong Liu
Violinist/Composer

Marsha Parrilla
Choreographer

Hakim Raquib
Photographer

Evelyn Rydz
Visual Artist

Enzo Silon Surin
Poet

Yu-Wen Wu
Interdisciplinary Artist

2017 Brother Thomas Fellows Brochure

2017 Brother Thomas Fellows Press Release

Nicole Aquillano
Ceramic Artist

Halsey Burgund
Sound Artist and Musician

Danielle Legros Georges
Poet

Raúl Gonzalez III
Visual Artist

Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Visual Artist

Masako Kamiya
Visual Artist

Balla Kouyaté
Composer/Musician

Sandrine Schaefer
Performance Artist

Michelle Seaton
Author

Jae Williams
Filmmaker

2015 Brother Thomas Fellows Brochure

Ambreen Butt
Multimedia Artist

Lorraine Chapman
Choreographer

Sean Fielder
Choreographer

Ekua Holmes
Visual Artist

Matti Kovler
Composer

Megumi Naitoh
Ceramic Artist

2013 Brother Thomas Fellows Press Release

2013 Brother Thomas Fellows Brochure

Sachiko Akiyama
Sculptor

Angela Cunningham
Ceramic Artist

David Valdes Greenwood
Playwright/Author

Wendy Jehlen
Dancer

Chandra Dieppa Ortiz
Painter/Sculptor

Robert Todd
Documentary Filmmaker

2011 and 2009 Brother Thomas Fellows Brochure

John Oluwole ADEkoje
Filmmaker/Playwright

Kati Agócs
Composer

Barbara Helfgott
Poet

Richard Hoffman
Poet

Brian Knep
Video Artist

Alla Kovgan
Dance-based Filmmaker

Tracy Heather Strain
Documentary Filmmaker

Heather White
Jeweler/Designer

2011 and 2009 Brother Thomas Fellows Brochure

pottery
 

 



Meet the 2023 Brother Thomas Fellows




Sabrina AvilesSabrina Avilés

Filmmaker and Founder & Executive Director of CineFest Latino Boston
cinefestlatino.com

Sabrina Avilés is an award-winning independent filmmaker and educator, as well as the Founder and Executive Director of CineFest Latino Boston. Born in New York City to Puerto Rican Dominican immigrants, she sees her life reflected in the stories she documents about Latinx communities. Avilés is a graduate of the Boston University film program. As a documentarian, her goal is to tell in-depth stories, incorporating longer substantive conversations with the community over time, moving beyond the headlines. By drawing attention to issues of Latinx communities, she hopes her films will shift perspectives and foster a deeper understanding of the human experience. Currently, she is working on a feature film about Chelsea, Mass., exploring the challenges and resilience of the city.

Victoria Lynn AwkwardVictoria Lynn Awkward

Director of VLA DANCE
vladance.com

Victoria Lynn Awkward is a multi-hyphenate creator, administrator, and educator, aiming to inspire people through her work to pause and reflect on their actions toward themselves, their community, and their environment. Along with directing VLA Dance, Awkward is a freelance artist, recently choreographing The Boy Who Kissed the Sky, Bluebeard’s Castle, and Romeo and Juliet. A graduate of Goucher College, receiving high honors in dance, visual art, and education, she has taught at Salem State University, West End House, Middlesex School and elsewhere, and continues deepening her teaching practices with the Midday Movement Series. She utilizes her creative practices to claim joy and love of her existence as a Queer Black woman and inspires others to thoughtfully own their respective identities.

 

Daniel CallahanDaniel Callahan

Multidisciplinary Artist
danielcallahan.com

Daniel Callahan, multidisciplinary artist and designer, merges media such as film, painting, photography, and performance, seeking to create immersive experiences incorporating story, ritual, and the human form to explore aspects of resilience and mysticism. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, with a master of fine arts in film and video degree from Emerson College, Callahan and his work have been featured at Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Queens Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and in publications such as The Believer magazine, Words Beats & Life: the Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture, and the Smithsonian Press.

Cicely CarewCicely Carew

Artist
cicelycarew.com

Cicely Carew’s printmaking and sculptural works channel radical joy and liberation. Carew has collaborated on exhibitions and installations with Now + There, the Fitchburg Art Museum, Northeastern University, and others. Carew won the 2023 Boston ICA’s James and Audrey Foster Prize. She holds degrees from Mass College of Art and Design and Lesley University. Carew is also a wellness facilitator and educator, and lives in Cambridge, Mass., with her son. 

Catarina CoelhoCatarina Coelho

Artist
catarinalcoelho.com

Born in Portugal, Catarina Coelho explores the expanded field of print, often incorporating painting and writing. Her work appears in national and international exhibitions and is held in several collections, including the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. After studying at the University of Lisbon and the Accademia di Belle-Arti di Brera in Milan, she received her master’s degree from Mass College of Art and Design.

Monica CohenMonica Cohen

Documentarian, Video Producer
theboomhouse
productions.com

Monica Cohen is a Colombian filmmaker whose documentaries center on art and culture in social transformation and human connection. Cohen founded Boom House Productions, a Boston-based company, specializing in the production of promotional videos rooted in cinematic and documentary style storytelling. She has been a part of award- winning film projects that have been shown around the world and in festivals such as Sundance, CPH:DOX, and FICCI, among others. Cohen believes in the power of stories to build bridges and spark important conversations that could be the catalyst to a more equitable world.

 
 

Joelle FontaineJoëlle Fontaine

Multimedia Artist
iamkreyol.com

Joëlle Fontaine is a Haïtian-American fashion designer, aesthetics and vibe architect, creative director, and entrepreneur utilizing fashion and art to advance social awareness and change. Fontaine accomplishes this through numerous artistic mediums and her entrepre- neurial endeavors. She founded Kréyol, a high-fashion lifestyle brand providing a platform for economic mobility and sustainability to artisans and creatives worldwide. Fontaine firmly believes that art and entrepreneurship can create an economic revolution.

Paul GoodnightPaul Goodnight

Painter
paulgoodnight.com

Raised in Roxbury, Mass., and New London, Conn., Paul Goodnight returned to Boston after serving in the Vietnam War to pursue a career as an artist. His work has appeared in the films Ghost, The Preacher’s Wife, and Gone Baby Gone, among others, and on many television programs including Seinfeld and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. He has been featured in Architectural Digest, Décor Magazine, Ebony, Essence, Miami Design, People, and Upscale, as well as 100 Boston Painters. Here at home, the Baystate Banner and Boston Globe consider him one of our most talented native sons. He received his B.F.A. and an honorary M.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art. Goodnight’s learning continued under Paul Rahilly, John Biggers, and Chuck Stigliano.

Tim HallTim Hall

Artist, Educator, Connector
timvhall.com

Tim Hall is an award-winning musician, performance poet, and producer from Detroit, Mich., with Boston as his current home. Hall’s poetry charts nuances of Blackness, masculinity, and the beauties of life. He is a faculty member at Berklee College of Music; a trustee with the Harvard American Repertory Theater; a member of the award-winning band STL GLD; and co- owner of HipStory, a digital media production company. Hall has shared stages and recorded with The Nappy Roots, Carolyn Malachi, Bilal, Chris Turner, Aloe Blacc, Maria Finkelmeier, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Diana Oh, among others. The 2020 Boston Music Awards named him Session Musician of the Year, and WBUR included him in the 2019 ARTery 25 (Millennials of color impacting Boston arts and culture).

Elisa H. HamiltonElisa H. Hamilton

Multimedia Artist
elisahhamilton.com

Elisa H. Hamilton is a socially engaged multimedia artist creating artwork and community-centered programs emphasizing shared spaces and the hopeful examination of our everyday places, objects, and experiences. Her work has been shown locally and nationally in solo and group exhibitions, and she has created participatory projects for institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Currier Museum of Art. Holding a bachelor of fine arts in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and a master of art in civic media: art and practice from Emerson College, Hamilton strives to make artwork that brings people together, activates conversation about social issues, and fosters greater understanding of ourselves and one another.

Lucy KimLucy Kim

Visual Artist
lucykim.com

Lucy Kim is a visual artist exploring the many naturalizing mechanisms that structure day-to-day visual experiences. Her practice is wide-ranging aesthetically and materially, with her focus on developing forms that are visceral, tactile, and less vision-centric. Using a broad range of materials such as oil paint, silicone rubbers, resins, and live bacteria cells producing melanin, her work acts to understand and challenge the power of appearance, and the socio-cultural systems working to produce visibility. Recent exhibitions of her work were held at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Kim is an Associate Professor of Art at Boston University.

Ashton Lites Ashton Lites

Founder, President, StiggityStackz Worldwide Inc.
stiggity.com

Ashton “Stiggity Stackz” Lites is one of Boston’s most renowned and veteran freestyle dance specialists, with 15+ years of intensive training in cultural and concert dance forms, including Krump, Popping, Locking, House, Hip Hop, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Afro-Haitian, and beyond. Experienced event organizer, instructor, and choreographer, and well-traveled in the underground Hip Hop competition circuit, he runs community-based dance and creative entrepreneurship development programs, events, and festivals. With StiggityStackz Worldwide, he has partnered with DS4SI, The Boston Ballet, Red Bull, The Museum of Science, The Mass Hip Hop Archive, and others. Stackz is dedicated to supporting and centering his community in achieving artistic excellence, economic sustainability, and historical recognition, with specific care and attention to Black creatives across generations and creative outlets.

 

Silvia Lopez ChavezSilvia Lopez Chavez

Artist
silvialopezchavez.com

Silvia Lopez Chavez is a Dominican-American visual artist whose collaborative murals forge meaningful cross-cultural connections and transform urban spaces by exploring personal stories of adaptation and resilience via painting, printmaking, and drawing. She was named a Neighborhood Salon Luminary by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and received the New England Women’s Leadership Award by the Boys and Girls Club of America and the New England Foundation of the Arts’ Leadership in Public Art Award. She completed artist residencies at MASS MoCA, Haystack, and Vermont Studio Center. Commissions include the U.S. Chinese Embassy in Beijing, Google HQ in California, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard and Northeastern universities. Lopez Chavez is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

U-Meleni Mhlaba-AdeboU-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo

Interdisciplinary Artist, Author, Educator
u-meleni.com

U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, a Boston-based Zimbabwean- American artist, author, and educator, examines and highlights fluid identities and intricate emotions using sonic elements, English, Shona songs, and storytelling, amplifying human experiences. Rooted in Zimbabwean-American heritage and merging Ndau and Ndebele lineages, she reshapes notions of womanhood, resilience, love, beauty, liberty, motherhood, and kinship as an “Emotional Anthropologist.” Drawing from medicine woman heritage, Mhlaba-Adebo invites exploration of ancestral connection through her work intertwining memory, personal and historical narratives, and global fabric. Her creative process is shaped with tools such as pen, typewriter, laptop, videography, voice, Mbira, and body.

Cassandra QueenCassandra Queen

Artist
quueenn.com

Cassandra Queen is a multidisciplinary artist, independent scholar, and creative entrepreneur from Boston, Mass. Her creative practice is rooted in exploring and understanding Black fiber traditions, textile arts, crafts, and histories. Recently, her background and experience led to the creation of works at the intersection of design, function, craft, and technology, employing natural dyeing of fabric and fibers, textile design, millinery, digital fabrication, and fashion design. She has received awards and distinguished fellowships for her artistic practice and creative entrepreneurship along with recognition for her work as a costume designer for a regional theater in the Boston area. Queen is the founder of QUUEENN, a design studio and brand centering storytelling through craft.

Kathryn RameyKathryn Ramey

Filmmaker
rameyfilms.com

Guggenheim Fellow and Creative Capital Award winner Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist, working at the experimental edges of both disciplines with films, installations, and performances exhibited widely. From domestic and global concerns to the personal and political, her work is characterized by manipulation of the celluloid, “troubling” the image and agitating the viewer. Ramey leads workshops and publishes articles and books on alternative film techniques, working to manifest radical empathy through a love of creating and sharing gritty, artisanal, experimental film form. In the Anthropocene, with human activity the central driver of climate change and its existential threat, small-gauge ecologically oriented artists like Ramey embody a sustainable future for the medium.

Ellen SchonEllen Schön

Ceramic Artist
ellenschon.com

Ellen Schön is a ceramic artist embracing both ancient and contemporary techniques in two distinct yet complementary series. Her traditional hand-coiled organic forms evoke the gesture and stance of the human figure, and pose narrative vignettes recalling connections and disconnections, meetings and partings. Harnessing new technology in her 3D clay-printed geometrical structures alluding to the mathematical symmetry of Platonic solids, she brings her tactile sense of clay into the digital sphere. Throughout all of the work, Schön’s original intention persists—to create unique, personal forms which resonate, whether functional, metaphorical, or somewhere in between. Schön is Adjunct Professor in Fine Arts and Ceramics Studio Supervisor at Lesley University College of Art and Design in Cambridge, Mass.

Anjali SrinivasanAnjali Srinivasan

Artist, Associate Professor at MassArt
anjalisrinivasan.com

Anjali Srinivasan began her creative practice with collaborative research and design initiatives aimed at socioeconomic empowerment with traditional artisans in India in 1998. In the studio, she develops ways to discover, access, and restructure information held in a material or situation, and is currently exploring “biological craftpersonship” and “crowd-created” entities in the fields of sustainability and social engagement. She completed undergraduate studies at the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi and Alfred University in New York, and a graduate degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Srinivasan lives and works between India and the United States, as Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, and Director at ChoChoMa Studios, Bengaluru.

Zahili ZamoraZahili Zamora

Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Educator
zahilizamora.com

Zahili Zamora’s professional musical career has taken her from Cuba, Canada, and Southeast Asia to the United States, with her rich musical background and career experience rendering her a leader in the modern Afro-Latin jazz idiom. With her former trio, MIXCLA, Zamora headlined at the 59th Monterey Jazz Festival, the 2016 Stave Sessions with Celebrity Series of Boston, and the 2015 Montreal International Jazz Festival. After joining the Berklee College of Music Piano Department in 2019, Zamora received her master of music in contemp- orary performance degree with a concentration in music performance anxiety in August 2023. Currently, she is working on her third album, featuring music inspired by her ongoing research on music performance anxiety.

Past Fellows

Since 2009, more than 90 talented artists have been recognized with the Brother Thomas Fellowship.

The artists who have received fellowships to date are extraordinary. Past fellows have won numerous awards and prizes during and after their fellowships, and been recognized among the leading artists in their disciplines nationally and internationally. They, along with all future Fellows, will make tremendous contributions to the art world over the course of their lives and will enrich our community in ways we can only imagine.

2021 Brother Thomas Fellows

Photos by Craig Bailey unless otherwise noted

To view the 2021 Fellows with their full biographies, click here.

 

2019 Brother Thomas Fellows

For full biographies of these Fellows at the time they were recognized with their fellowships, click here.

2017 Brother Thomas Fellows

Jean Appolon Sandeep Das Maya Erdelyi Maria Finkelmeyer
Jean Appolon
Choreographer/Dance Educator
Sandeep Das
Musician 
Maya Erdelyi
Animator/Director
Maria Finkelmeier
Percussionist/Composer
Patrick Gabridge Regie Gibson Stephen Hamilton Kathryn King
Patrick Gabridge
Playwright/Author
Regie Gibson
Performer/Poet
Stephen Hamilton
Visual Artist/Educator
Kathryn King
Ceramic Artist/Teacher
Shaw Pong Liu Marsha Parrilla Hakim Raquib Evelyn Rydz
Shaw Pong Liu
Violinist/Composer
Marsha Parrilla
Choreographer
Hakim Raquib
Photographer
Evelyn Rydz
Visual Artist
Enzo Silon Surin Yu-Wen Wu    
Enzo Silon Surin
Poet
Yu-Wen Wu
Interdisciplinary Artist
   

2015 Brother Thomas Fellows

Nicole Aquillano Halsey Burgund Danielle Legros Georges Raul Gonzalez III
Nicole Aquillino
Ceramic Artist
Halsey Burgund
Sound Artist and Musician
Danielle Legros Georges
Poet
Raúl Gonzalez III
Visual Artist
Napoleon Jones-Henderson Masako Kamiya Ballo Kouyate
Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Visual Artist
Masako Kamiya
Visual Artist
Balla Kouyaté
Composer/Musician
Sandrine Schaefer
Performance Artist
Michelle Seaton Jae Williams
Michelle Seaton
Author
Jae Williams
Filmmaker

2013 Brother Thomas Fellows

Ambreen Butt Lorraine Chapman Sean Fielder Ekua Holmes
Ambreen Butt
Visual Artist
Lorraine Chapman
Choreographer
Sean Fielder
Choreographer
Ekua Holmes 
Visual Artist
Megumi Naitoh    
Matti Kovler
Composer
Megumi Naitoh
Ceramic Artist 
   

2011 Brother Thomas Fellows

Sachiko Akiyama Angla Cunningham David Valdes Greenwood Wendy Jehlen
Sachiko Akiyama
Sculptor
Angela Cunningham
Ceramic Artist
David Valdes Greenwood
Playwright/Author
Wendy Jehlen
Dancer
Chandra Dieppa Ortiz Robert Todd    
Chandra Dieppa Ortiz
Painter/Sculptor
Robert Todd
Documentary Filmmaker
   

2009 Brother Thomas Fellows

John Oluwole ADEkoje Kati Agocs Barbara Helfgott Richard Hoffman
John Oluwole ADEkoje
Filmmaker/Playwright
Kati Agócs
Composer
Barbara Helfgott
Poet
Richard Hoffman
Poet
Brian Knep Alla Kovgan Tracy Strain Heather White
Brian Knep
Video Artist
Alla Kovgan
Dance-based Filmmaker
Tracy Heather Strain
Documentary Filmmaker
Heather White
Jeweler/Designer 

The artists who have received fellowships to date are extraordinary. They, along with all future Fellows, will make tremendous contributions to the art world over the course of their lives, and will enrich our community in ways we can only imagine.