2020 3Arts/Spare Room Fund Next Level Award
I am honored to be one of three inaugural recipients of a 3Arts Next Level Award. The $50,000 unrestricted grant supported by 3Arts and The Spare Room Fund at the Chicago Community Foundation, were awarded to three womxn artists from among the 3Arts awardee network who are currently practicing in the visual arts and residing in the Chicago Metropolitan area. The closely guarded secret of the award was announced Monday, October 19, 2020 at the 3Arts annual event, this year virtually on YouTube, along with ten $30,000 grants to other extraordinary Chicago artists. The other two Next Level award recipients, artists Huong Ngo and Amanda Williams, were introduced by family members. I got teary during an introduction by my personal hero and occasional collaborator–my adult son Omodayo.
New City Art 50 2020 - Artist Selection Folayemi Wilson
“After a two-decade career in two-dimensional design and art direction, Folayemi (Fo) Wilson turned to 3D, studied furniture design and art history, and began making new forms and spaces. Her 2019 “Dark Matter” exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center expanded the setting of Southern vernacular architecture to new realms, not only centering the hypothetical occupants …
blkHaUS Studios Awards Grants to Young Design Professionals & Students
blkHaUS studios sends four design students and young professionals to IDSA’s 2020 International Design Conference. Each of them was awarded a grant from blkhaus studios to attend the IDC conference sponsored by IDSA, and to get a complimentary IDSA membership.
Chicago Names Artists to Memorials & Monuments Advisory Committee
The advisory committee is reviewing the City’s current public art inventory to identify and prioritize artworks that may be problematic. The resulting report will recommend next steps for the existing collection as well as processes for the city’s commission of monuments moving forward, which will include speculative …