United States Artists

01/30/2025

In 2025, USA enters our 20th year of commitment to durable, sustainable support to artists and creative practitioners in All Stages, in All Ways, Always. This year, we are thrilled to award a new cohort of USA Fellows, fifty exceptional artists and collectives working in ten disciplines in twenty-one US states, spanning the most nascent to mature stages of careers.

These creative practitioners center origin and belonging, many honoring work that explores regional specificity. Join us in celebrating and congratulating our 2025 cohort!

To learn more about our 2025 cohort and the USA Fellowship head to www.unitedstatesartists.org/perspectives/announcing-the-2025-usa-fellows

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07/03/2024

Calling all artists! 👋

United States Artists is conducting research to try to understand how artists describe the work they do as part of an effort to help inform classifications of artists in federal data.

Consider responding to this survey to contribute to this effort.

➡️ https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bQTEF9BHvwLd9uS

07/03/2024

The fourth issue of Shift Space, guest edited by 2021 USA Fellow in Media Morehshin Allahyari and writer and animator Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler, is online now at shiftspace.pub!

Allahyari and Meitzler write, “This issue of Shift Space engages with artists, poets, and writers who interact with technological thinking and tooling in ways that go beyond merely ‘catching up to the West,’ instead forging another codebase, a different source code, a narrative of its own. We find here the story of a transfemme nurse caring for patients with cybersickness and of Google Maps’ Pegman, who builds a new relationship with her body; we learn of technology’s role in becoming the master’s tool within systems of oppression and of the survival of a plant across multiple landscapes of colonial occupation. The practitioners assembled in this issue not only challenge homogeneity and the societal systems that govern technology itself, but also embolden a fractalization of technological development for and in service of other possible worlds and dreams.”

Issue 4 features contributions from Derek Tumala, Foundland Collective, Golrokh Nafisi, Isola Tong, Jami Nakamura Lin, Luiza Prado, and Nour.

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06/26/2024

06/26/2024

Congratulations Beth Boone, who is the recipient of the 2024 Berresford Prize, our annual award honoring cultural practitioners who have contributed significantly to the advancement, well-being, and care of artists in society.

As an artist, community leader, and Artistic and Executive Director of Miami Light Project, Boone’s dynamic career is one of force, having catalyzed systems of cultural support not only locally, but nationally and internationally.

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06/25/2024

For Ifeoma, embracing cultural self-determination as a cornerstone of justice and equity has been central to her journey. From Brooklyn to Nigeria, Ifeoma draws inspiration from diverse Black experiences to shape equitable spaces. Her work as a transdisciplinary designer, artist, and urbanist advocates for, designs with, and visually showcases communities of color worldwide.

Join Ifeoma, among many other artists and culture makers in advancing racial, social, and cultural reparations through design all summer at the Reparations in Public Space exhibit that will be on display through to August 15 2024 in Brooklyn, New York.

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