We’re pleased to announce that photographer and visual Artist Adama Delphine Fawandu will serve as a juror for the 2022 Alumni Microgrant Program!
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer and visual artist born in Brooklyn of Mende and Bubi descent. Her distinct visual language enrichens and expands the photographic canon. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. For decades, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is a 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalist. Her awards include New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellowship (2016) and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant (2018), among others. She was commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory to participate in the 100 Years|100 Women Project/The Women’s Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium (2019-2021). Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, Asbury, NJ; The Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Springs, FL, The David C. Driskell Art Collection, College Park, MD; and in private collections. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.
About the Alumni Microgrant Program
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Alumni Microgrant Program supports creative projects by alumni of the Awards. Created to support alumni across all disciplines, states, and countries, this program seeks clear and compelling proposals that advance alumni development in their chosen field of creative inquiry.
We define creative inquiry as any investigation that informs our humanity and/or serves as a call to action promoting racial and social justice. Relevant projects can approach that inquiry through art, writing, performance, technology, math, and the social, natural, and/or physical sciences.
Qualifying projects and related expenses encompass a range of possibilities, including: cost of travel to conduct research; participation fee for a conference, writer’s retreat or residency; production costs for an exhibition, a public installation, a print edition, or a film; fulfillment of a component to complete a master’s thesis project or doctoral dissertation; and assistance for a curatorial or community-based project or event, among many options. For past examples of alumni projects that have been funded by our microgrant program, please visit our blog post announcing last year’s recipients.
Ten $1,000 grants will be awarded after proposals are reviewed by Alliance for Young Artists & Writers staff and our judge, Adama Delphine Fawandu. Exemplary proposals will demonstrate passion and dedication for the proposed projects. In addition, five $1,000 grants will be awarded to alumni of the National Student Poets Program. Applications for both microgrant programs will be accepted until January 31, 2022, at 11:59 pm EST.
The 2022 Alumni Microgrant Program is made possible by the Maurice R. Robinson Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Eligibility
- Must be a past Scholastic Awards recipient.
- Currently enrolled high school and undergraduate students are not eligible.
- Previous recipients of this microgrant are ineligible.
How to Apply
All alumni must complete an online application to be considered for a microgrant. Please submit your application by Monday, January 31, 2022, at 11:59 pm ET.
If you have any questions, please email support@artandwriting.org.
Featured Image
ZÀO: A History of Chinese Dishcourse through Famine and Revolution, 2020 created by 2020 Alumni Microgrant recipient Siri Lee.