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.
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.
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