Interlace Grant Fund Announces Recipients of Inaugural Project Grants for Visual Art Projects
Interlace Grant Fund is proud to announce the inaugural nine recipients of Project Grants for visual arts projects produced and presented in Providence. The grants, totaling more than $50,000, support new and experimental work by local artists who have visions for projects that might otherwise fall outside of traditional arts funding opportunities. Grantees range from unincorporated groups of collaborating artists to individual artists whose work facilitates unique engagements with various contexts and publics.
We at Interlace are thrilled to support these artists’ visions for creating adventurous and timely artwork in our city. We are grateful to our first cohort of grantees, the nearly 60 artists and artist collaboratives who applied, our thoughtful jury panel, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their lead support of this initiative. There is an incredibly vibrant artist community in Providence, and we look forward to seeing how the awarded artists’ projects benefit the arts community and audiences alike. Read the full press release related to this announcement here.
Artists & Projects
Adam Chuong
I built you a house of mud so that we could see each other again
Binch Press
Binch Press 2022 CSA (Community Supported Artwork)
Dana Heng
Nyum Lang ញាុំ លេង: An Offering for Yin
Haus of Glitter
The Haus Will Be Red: The Curse of Esek Hopkins
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
CONTRABAND
Lois Harada
WISH YOU WERE HERE
Mariana Ramos Ortiz
Breezeblocks
Que Dulce
Que Dulce PVD: A Revolutionary Queer Dance Party by QTBIPOC for QTBIPOC
Ryan Cardoso
A Different Type of Church
Read more about the artists and their funded projects here.
Selection Process
Funded projects were selected by a jury panel made up of local and national figures, including artists and curators with multi-faceted experience in the visual arts. Jurors included Anita N. Bateman, Rob Blackson, Deborah Spears Moorehead, Alex Paix, and Jordan Seaberry.
Photograph by Rue Sakayama
Lois Harada
WISH YOU WERE HERE
Project description: A multimedia installation featuring a penny press, letterpress postcards, and large-scale silkscreen prints created in the style of Works Progress Administration (WPA) travel posters featuring Japanese-American incarceration camp sites.
Artist biography: Lois Harada is an artist and printmaker working in Providence. She studied traditional printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and settled in Rhode Island after graduating with a BFA in 2010. She works at DWRI Letterpress, a commercial letterpress printshop where she also prints her own work. Harada utilizes text and the medium of the poster to tell her family’s story of incarceration — her paternal grandmother was interned in Poston, Arizona from 1942 -1945. She takes inspiration from propaganda printed and distributed by the United States government and prints with type and equipment similar to that which would have created the original works.
Harada has exhibited across the United States and internationally. Her work is included in private collections as well as the RISD Museum. Her practice is bolstered by residencies, and she is preparing for a five-week residency at Anderson Ranch in Colorado in the spring of 2022. She recently finished a seven-year term on the board of New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized free, arts drop-in program, and a term as a city commissioner on the Art in City Life Commission serving the city of Providence.
Awards Ceremony | January 24, 5:30pm
Please join Interlace Grant Fund for a celebratory reception and awards ceremony featuring short presentations by 2021 grantees. Monday January 24, 2022 5:30pm – 8:00pm Providence College Galleries’ Smith Center for the Arts. Find all the event details here.