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Queens Arts Fund

Queens Arts Fund (QAF) offers project-based grants to support the local production of artwork and cultural programs that highlight, engage, and bolster the diverse communities of the Queens borough through two grant programs:

The Arts Access Grant offers project-based financial support for Queens-based small-budget 501c3 nonprofit organizations or unincorporated artist collectives.

The New Work Grant supports emerging Queens-based individual artists and artist collectives of all artistic disciplines in their creation of new work.

280
Artists Awarded
All
Disciplines
$915,200
Total Amount Awarded
2024
Arts Access Recipients

Astoria Film Festival Inc., Astoria Film Festival Media Production Lab

BERM, Culturally Daylighting Flushing Creek: Reimagining Hydro-Citizenship through Participatory Arts-Based Research

Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草, The Ciba Punch 女拳手打糍粑

City Gate Productions, Frankenstein

DanceStream Projects, Stories in the Moment: Belonging in Action

Flamenco Latino, The 2024 Más Allá Series

Galore Urban Tech Inc., VR Art Tour 2024

Jackson Heights Beautification Group, Summer Sundays in the Park

JH Art Talks, Off-Brand 3.0

New Music Horizons, Collaborative Artists in Concert

No, YOU Tell It!, True-Life Tales with a Twist

Open Circuit, Satellite Cinema

PinProductions, Ducky and Patsy’s Fairytales for Sophisticated Adults: Gretel & Gretel

Project Attica, Our Art Identity

Queens Fiber Arts Festival, Queens Fiber Arts Festival & Fashion Show

Ridgewood Off-Kilter Film Festival, Ridgewood Off-Kilter Film Festival

Rock Rising, Inc., Astoria Creative Arts Camp

Senior Theater Acting Repertory, Bringing Live Theater and Songs to Queens

Shakespeare on the Beach, 2024 Season: Twelfth Night or What You Will

Sharlene Chou / Magic Ming Studio, Chinese Calligraphy, Paper Cutting and Craft Workshops for Celebrating Lunar Year of the Dragon

Son Jarocho NY, The 14th NY Son Jarocho Festival

Sounds of Cyprus, Sounds of Cyprus – An Evening of Traditional Cypriot Music and Dance

Stephen Street Gallery, Stephen Street Gallery 2024 Programming

The Dream Unfinished, VITALS

The Motor Company NYC, Inc., Communal Spaces: a garden play festival 2024

Woodside Arts Collective, International Dance Day

Zazel-Chavah O’Garra, “Look pon you”

New Work Recipients

Concetta Abbate, Ridgewood-Glendale Soundwalk

Yasmeen Abdallah, The Art of Fashion

Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess, Forgotten Black Histories of Queens

Sienna Aczon, Celestial Siblings & Other Beings: Adapted Filipino Folktales

Destinie Adélakun, Water’s Edge – Creating awareness of Ocean health through art

Adult Film and Ryan Czerwonko, Meg Case, Brad Porter, and Mia Vallet; Sea Gull

Jae Hi Ahn, Solace in Nature

stefa marin alarcon, End of The Patriarchy To Do List: An EP & Group Poetics Workshop

Alchemyverse (Bicheng Liang and Yixuan Shao), The Continent has been Wandering in Time

Alexeya, return to love

Talisa Almonte – Almonte Studio, World’s Borough Bookshop Mural

Lowel Alomar, The 6ixth Boro

Henry Arroyo/Studio East100, Re-Birth

Asoso International Arts Initi, A Taste of Kumina

Corrie Aune, The Story of This Place: Young Activists of Queens

Aileen Bassis, A Place Remembered

Stephanie Beck, Frame/Forest

Tom Block, Oud Player on the Tel

Block Chords Production, Jazz Explorations 2024

Alexandra Borovski, Untitled (Working Title: Drawing Together)

Jude Brandt, Stephen Foglia, The Astoria Food Pantry; Cascadia

Natali Bravo-Barbee, Capullo/Cocoon: In the Shadows of Motherhood

Rachel Brown, Resistance is Fertile: the story of the 45th Street Green Space

Anna Capunay, SOMBRAS

Nathan Catlin, Beyond the Window Frame

Richard Chang, Reflections

Chengslate, A Freeday

Denise ‘deLaSNP’ Coke, Portal to Progress: A Futuristic Glimpse of Southeast Queens

John Colpitts, I Happen To Like New York – New Percussion Compositions and Arrangements

Mags Colvett, Lionfish

Squeeze Creations with Cody Umans, Public sculptures for 45th St Greenspace

Credle Entertainment, Wxlf Pack (Musical Film)

Noelia R. Deza and Robert Kerr (RioNorte), La Marisma (The Marsh)

Jacob Elkin, The Snake

Carlos Esguerra, Contemporary Architecture Gems of New York City

Duo Extempore, Ordinary Places

Emir Fils-Aime, Where Two Rivers Meet

Daniel Fishkin, Artificial Inhabitants

Clara Franesca with The Extended Reality Ensemble (XRE) and Wild Tongues Productions, XRE and friend’s “Songs From The Source”

Afro-Andean Funk, Kani Sonqo / Afro-Andean Funk

Ben Gassman, Adult Relationships

GAUCHE, Do you speak Jackson Heights?

Jacq Groves, Embodied Infrastructure

Greg Hammontree, Transmit: Echoes

Aya Hirota, Singing Stone Sanukaito

Michael Hollis, Otoacoustic Emissions

Margaret Horning, Access Oasis

Karen Ingram, Biogenetic Blooms: Collaborations with Genetically Modified Yeast

The Interstitial, Jarek Pastor’s ward

Annastasia “NWA” Jean Jacques, Transmute

Olena Jennings, The Language Project

Lee Jensen, Sewn Cities, Woven Worlds

Woomin Kim, The Warehouse

Kissatou, “My Love Story”

Amanda Krische, Violence is not the home I live in

Jesse Lambert, The Bowne House Comic

Heather Lang, Queens of Heart

Grace Leckey, Hell Gate

Chun Seung Lee, The Samulnori & Talk Concert

Durra Leung, Durra Leung’s Lullabies for Motherf*ckers Vol.2

Jess Levey, Second Spring

Honglei LI, Asian American Mythology

Roxanne Lim, MAARTE

Tasha Lutek, Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Valor & Revolt

David Manrique, Made by Us

Jodie Lynne McClintock, Nell’s Plague Play

Lee Melillo, The Peek with Samuel Pepys

Gail Meyers, Explorations in Dimensionality and Space

David Mills, Rufus King of Queens

Patrick Neal, Queens Waterways

Rossen Nedelchev, The Sounds and Rhythms in Cartoons

Louis DeVaughn Nelson, Was Beethoven Black

Alexander Ney, Alexander Ney’s New Sculptures of LIC: A Celebration of the Emigre Artist’s 50th Year in New York City

Aimée Niemann, Body Songs

Nasrah Omar, In continuum (a circle of invocation)

Arthur Ou, Viewfinder

Hsuan Yu Pan, HEAR, EAT, HOME

Alice Lussiana Parente, Lana Boy, Heloise Wilson, Dorothea Gloria, Christie Stiff; Big Feelings

J. Pavone String Ensemble, Reverse Bloom

Jerron Paxton & Dennis Lichtman, Blacks, Jews, & Black Jews: Unlikely Partners in Folk & Jazz

Avika Penaloza, Awakening Georgie

Plushie, You Are Everything

michael rendino, The Forest Fairy

Ellie Rha, BEING KOREAN-AMERICAN SUCKS

Adam J. Rineer, THIRD SEX: 1930s transvestite lieder

Vin Scialla, Ascension

Nikhil Shah, Parrhesia

Scott Sheppard, Pop-Up Surprise

Patricia Silva, Bright Vignettes

Chitra Singh, Adi Shakti (Moon Song)

Tana Sirois, UnTethered

Polina Porras Sivolobova, Pomegranate – a small guide of multidiscplinary exercises for the nomadic solo artist

Christen M. Smith, Blessed Are Those Who Are Angry

.soundfullness, /flux_sessions.soundfullness

Sean Spada, Posing with Tigers

The Square Theatre, Slow Dance

Studio S II LLC, House of S II

Lindsay Timmington, Penny Local

Tiffany Troy, A New Ilium

B.A. Van Sise, What is Left

Jevijoe Vitug, PINTA PINTADOS

Jason Wang, STUY OR DIE

Deborah Wasserman, Wanderland

Street Works, Street Work Earth

Jing (Ellen) Xu, I will be, and what can I do?

Jiemin Yang, Portraits of the Moon

Crys Yin, Collective Talismans

Chang Yuchen, Queens Things

Garrett Zuercher, PRIVILEGE

Panelists

Isabella Abbonizio

Carolina Muñoz Awad

Ann Marie Baranowski

Laurie J. Bennett

Wendy Arimah Berot

Billy Blanken

Natali Bravo-Barbee

Hilary Brown-Istrefi

Joyce S. Chan

Shilpi Chandra

Mijounga Chang

Siyi Chen

Victoria Cho

Shawn Choi

Magaly Colimon-Christophe

Mallory Craig

Johnny Culver

David Dean

Saba Farhoudnia

Daniel Fishkin

Sally Gates

Catherine Goode

Anastasia Gudko

Duy Hoàng

Yu-Wei Hsiao

Chieh Hsiung

Grace Jahng Lee

David King

Landon Knoblock

Durra Leung

Claire Marie Lim

Juliette Lin

Sophie Lo

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow

Michelladonna

Tavonna Miller

Eric Narburgh

Louis DeVaughn Nelson

Marc Nuñez

María-Elena Pombo

Dani Changah Song

Jason Stefaniak

Sam Sundius

Charline Tetiyevsky

B.A. Van Sise

Caterina Verde

Tanika I. Williams

Brittany Wilson

Brendez Wineglass

Raqeebah Zaman

Lu Zhang

2023
Arts Access Recipients

City Gate Productions, “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” by Steve Martin

Como un lugar, Como un Lugar: Annual Latin-American Poetry Festival

DanceStream Projects, Stories in the Moment: Our Portraits

Dovecote Collective, Sunday Oupoor Art Classes on 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights

Gotham Dance Theater, Summer Suite 5.0

Headwall Theatre Company Inc, 1 in 4 written by Michelle Orosz and B.J. Boothe

Jackson Heights Beautification Group, Summer Sundays In The Park

Jasmin Chang and Kisha Bari (JCKB Studios), Hey Neighbor NYC

JH Art Talks, JH Art Talks 2023 Season

Kofago Dance Ensemble, Kwanzaa Celebration 2023

Leonel Linares & Company, Las Heroinas

Los Herederos, Diversity Plaza: Documenting as Resistance

Lyrical Faith Poetry, Real Life Writers Poetry Project: Queens Edition

MingLiang Lu & Sharlene Chou / Magic Ming Studio; Chinese Calligraphy, Paper Cutting, and Craft Workshops for Celebrating Lunar Year of the Rabbit

Mobile Print Power, Mobile Print Power: Back to the Streets

Multicultural Sonic Evolution, “Music of Japan” – from traditional to contemporary

New York Kathak Festival, New York Kathak Festival Pop-Up! Concert 2023

No, YOU Tell It!, No, YOU Tell It! True-Life Tales with a Twist

NY Son Jarocho Collective, The 13th NY Son Jarocho Festival

Paige “Queen TuT” Stewart of The Kingdom Tribe, Where’s The Money Interactive Panel Discussion

Queens Jazz OverGround, Queens Jazz OverGround 2023 Fall Jazz Fest

Queens World Film Festival, The Listing Tour

Royal Star Theatre, All Shook Up

Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre, Free Sunday Performing Arts | Queens Oupoor Dance Festival 2023

The Blue Bus Project, Clean & Green: Renewable Solar Energy

The Garage Art Center, See, Touch, & Create Art!

The Motor Company, Communal Spaces

Woodside Arts Collective, Sunnyside/Woodside International Dance Day

New Work Recipients

Taaj Al Khaliq, Found Flowers

Santina Amato, Blurred Boundaries

Hannah Antalek, solo exhibition at 5-50 Gallery

Suha Araj and Hala Araj, Who Is Naya?

Helixx C. Armageddon, Museum of My Heart

Daphne Arthur, Fragile Intangibilities

Back to the Lab, Re-imagining Family Archives

Black Petal Theatre, In The Woods Somewhere

Emma Rose Brown, Moving Narratives

Adriel Vincent Brown – The Force, The Force Live

Janet Bruesselbach, Beloved Monsters

Kathleen Capdesuñer, Fefu y Sus Amigas

Nick Capezzera, Many Oceans

Graciela Cassel, River Tales

Luz Castaneda and Alexandre Barranco, Healing Leaves: The Myth of the Orisha Ossanhe

Ashley Chew, Open Book

Jenny Eunjung Cho, where we lift and displace the stones of time

Kristie Chua, Ideas for Reverse Destruction

YunRay Chung, Re-birth-ing

David Claman and Matthew Curran, Song Cycle for Bass Singer and Piano

Magaly Colimon-Christopher, Access Granted

Andrew Cornell Robinson, Confabulations + Fantabulosas

Danny Crump, Ceramics To-Go

Alberto Denis, Christina Eskridge, and P.Tyler Britt, The Bound Diablo

Ilya Dynov, Ilya Dynov Group

eco|tonal (by David Crowell & Iva Casian-Lakos), eco|tonal

Daniel Henri Emond, Kill The Whale: A Musical Odyssey

Salvador Espinoza, The Given of The Place

Alessandra Expósito, Larger Childhood Maladies

Melinda Faylor, Sari-Sari Storybooks with Music

Nina Fiore, Astoria Film Festival; Disability is Diversity! Screening and Panel

Fragmentario, Entrelazado de Onoto en el Almacén de Madera (Annatto Interweaving in the Lumber Warehouse)

Elizabeth Bales Frank, Summers at the Dog Cafe

Funsch Dance, kid subjunctive

Santiago Galeas, Drag in Queens

Linda Ganjian, Her Hands | My Hands sculpture and open studio

Nancy Gesimondo, Portals

Wojciech Gilewicz, “Days and Nights” (2023) HD video work

Kristalyn Gill, LOOK AT ME

Jesse Greenberg, Naeemah Maddox, Charlie Rauh, Sunnyside Field Guide

Clair Gunther, Gesho: Creative Repair

Hank the Mason, Digital Rust

Annie Hart, String Quartet Performance in Grover Cleveland Park

Janet Loren Hill, Parachute Games: Steinway Village

Emily Hockaday, In a Body & Ecopoetry Workshops

Alexa Hoyer, Fallow Frames

Hsiao-Chu Hsia, The Third Party

Chemin Hsiao, From Past to Present

Chieh Hsiung, Islanders

Dena Igusti, A Bit Tuary

Michelle Jaffé, Grifter’s Gambit

Elliot k Johnson, Q lite artist project

Lidiya Kan, Wilderness Pursuit

Satoshi Kanazawa, Exploring Art Song: The World of Kaneko Misuzu

Midori Kaneko Larsen, Seeds of Dreams

Yui Kitamura, Three Folktales from Kagoshima, Japan

John Kitses, Last Days at the Iron Triangle

Lauren Klenow, Pollinator Tower

Wing Kong, Reclaimed Habitat – Ruby Tears

Mo Kong, Swift Island Chain

Alexandra Kumala, 20 Years

Kuya, Tales From Ophir: Moros y Cristianos

Adonis LaMoss, Phantasía

Cindy Lan, Dots on Plates (for solo viola, string ensemble & percussion)

Meadow Land, Ava’s Dream

Laura Lappi, Palace Basilica

Anthoula Lelekidis, Fragments of Diaspora

Franck Lesbros, CLOUDNESS

Rejin Leys, Reading the River

Cecilia Lim, From Queens to Our Motherlands: Remember Y(our) Connection

Claire Marie Lim/dolltr!ck, Light: Songs of the Sisterhood

David R. Lincoln & Sara Wallace, Geodes – A Project for Locative Media in Queens

Carla Lobmier, What Now? Six Women Answer

Melissa Martinez, The Politician

David Anaya Maya, Homeland Traces

Derick Melander, To Reshuffle the Sun

Sharon Miller, Pass The Crown – an editorial style portrait project honoring men and women of color living with Dementia

Momedy, Momedy

Jeffrey Morabito, Lost Pets

Nitin Mukul, Heat Maps: Queens

Julian Louis Phillips, STAMPEDE Press

Cristián Pietrapiana & Andrés Senra, F L O O D

Michael Poast, Color Music Timelessness “Density”

Queens Center Of The Arts, Wear The Artist

Colin J. Radcliffe, TO FEEL THESE THINGS

Radicle Community Arts, Creative Family Gathering

erin reid, as the weft moves (Working Title)

Skyler Reid, Me and My Shadow

Daniel Roberts, East River environmental expedition

Robus Dance Theatre Ensemble, Take 5: Lighten up your commute

Regine L. Sawyer, Queens Fiber Arts Festival

Seamus Scanlon, The Long Wet Grass/An Féar Fada Fliuch (Bilingual Rehearsed Reading English/Irish)

Roxanne Scott, The History of Queens, NY in 7 Dishes: A Live Anthology

Rin Seo, Rin Seo Project: Large Ensemble

Guillermo Severiche, Sobrevuelo: An Illustrated Short Story Collection in Spanish on Pigeons and Their Lives in New York

Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, An Evening of New Classics

Minshik Shin, To benefit everyone in the world

Dani Changah Song, Prayer Cocoon

Shauna Sorensen and Annabelle Popa, Gossamer 3.0

Harley Spiller, Woodside Heights Art Museum

Marissa Stanton, Furious Cooking

Jacquelyn Strycker, More Than I Can Hold

Tierra Narrative — members leading project: Keni Guillen, Génesis Mancheren Abaj, and Frisly Soberanis; [Untitled] Anthology on Grief

Titan to Tachyons, The Abolition of Linear Time

Alvin Tsang, Siyan Wong; People’s Land

Jeanne Verdoux, Female Vaisselle

WMN, Thresholds

Angela Wong Carbone, Minor Legends

Tracy Yang, Scene Taiwan III

Lily Yang, SHADOW PLAY: Tales of Immigration

lu yim, Pieces of Earth We Eat

Jordan Young, In the Wake

Lu Zhang, Walking Ten More Steps

Zones of Exclusion team: Tusia Dabrowska, Wiktor Freifeld, Nina Gielen, Maria Grewe; Zones of Exclusion

Panelists

Wendy Angulo

Aaron Asis

Rosebud Ben-Oni

Hannah Berson

Kat Bloomfield

Jade Brown

Cara Cannella

Roxy Chang

Shawn Choi

Sheree Clement

Magaly Colimon-Christopher

Priscila De Carvalho

David Dean

Astrid Dong

Cynthia Epps

Maggie Gavin

Robert Anthony Gibbons

Catherine Goode

Joanna Gould

Lindsay Huang

Alexander Huaylinos

Grace Jahng Lee

Tarley Jordan

Ioanna Katsarou

Kengchakaj Kengkarnka

Jesse Lambert

Haksul Lee

Stephanie Lee

Sam Manning

Angela Miskis

Alice Mizrachi

Jesus Morales

Guillaume Muller

Spencer Murphy

Sui Park

María Elena Pombo

Nicole Reiner

Larion Ross

Malissa Saghatchi

Richard Shpuntoff

Priscilla Stadler

Mario Torres

Jessica Van Grouw

Carrie Sijia Wang

Haibei Wang

Poyen Wang

Tony Williams

Lu Zhang

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