2024 - 2025 research + development grant recipients
Assata Goff
Sadie Rose
huiyin zhou + Laura Dudu
Ky Santilli
Alyssa Cuffie
About 2024 - 2025 research + development grants
The Snapdragon Fund is a partnership between VAE Raleigh and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. To meet the continued needs of our creative community, the Snapdragon Fund has allocated funds in this cycle for the new Research + Development grant. As opposed to the previous One-Year Research Grant, the new R+D Grant represents a two-year commitment: the first year to the research component with the latter committed to a public culmination of the prior year’s work. Grantees will be awarded $2,000 in the first year (2025) to support research and $5,000 in the second year (2026) to support the practical application of that research for a total grant amount of $7,000.
We encourage self-identifying visual artists living in Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Nash, Orange, Wake, Wayne, and Wilson counties to apply.
Snapdragon Fund will prioritize the most vulnerable artists among us: BIPOC artists, gender-non conforming and transgender artists, artists with disabilities, immigrant and/or non-documented artists, and artists experiencing housing insecurity.
While the award can be used to pay for a wide range of resources as before (including but not limited to classes, books, academic journal databases, workshops, seminars, and consultations), the relationship between these expenses, associated work, and the future project must be made clear. As a two-year grant, this importantly entails a shift in VAE’s relationship to Snapdragon Fund grantees in this category, as we seek to provide greater support and guidance as part of this process. Likewise, we seek to cultivate greater community and collaboration among each cohort (via gatherings, meetings, etc.). The Research + Development Grant is intended to more clearly delineate this opportunity from professional development and instead assure a clarity of purpose and intent, as well as a sharper sense of material outcome at the root.
The Fund recognizes that one year of research may not yield the same results as Project grantees who are often backed by additional years of research and experience. With that in mind, we do not expect R+D grantees to present projects at the same scale as full Project grantees. We expect these R+D projects to be more rough around the edges and reflect a more DIY approach, but still demonstrate a strong, obvious impact on the communities they center/serve.
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