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Initiatives

Through our Initiatives awards, USA collaborates with foundations, philanthropists, and other field leaders to create pathways of support for artists across the nation.

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    Seed and Bloom: Detroit

    Gilbert Family Foundation

    Seed and Bloom: Detroit supports Detroit-based, BIPOC artists growing their artistic practices into sustainable organizations and businesses that increase access to arts and culture programming.

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  • Mid-dance, long dark cables extend out of Yo-Yo's body connected to her skin with golden discs. She steadies herself with one hand on the floor and another raised high, her thin arm wrapped in cables, one knee on the floor her other leg extended. She gazes downwards, listening inwards.
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    Disability Futures

    Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation

    Disability Futures is aimed at increasing the visibility of disabled creative practitioners across disciplines and geography and amplifying their voices individually and collectively.

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    Maxwell/Hanrahan Awards in Craft

    Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation

    The Maxwell/Hanrahan Awards in Craft are a celebration of artists and craftspeople committed to unique and visionary material exploration, with practices encompassing the stewardship of living cultural traditions, unique insights in material study, and/or advancement of craft.

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  • A refurbished interstellar backhoe outfitted with a bucket loader, three LCD monitors, multiple pairs of headphones, and long, spindly legs sits in the center of the gallery. The wall to the left displays a video projection of a 3D rendered ocean and the wall to the right displays a projected red orb.
    Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship

    Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship

    The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

    The Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship supports artists working with innovative approaches to technology and new media in Knight cities.

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  • A group of dancers are dramatically lit on a stage. They wear matching dark blue scrubs and imitate the motions of the man standing in front of them. He faces the dancers, away from the camera, with his arms and hands shielding his face.
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    The Rainin Arts Fellowship

    Kenneth Rainin Foundation

    The Rainin Arts Fellowship was established to recognize and celebrate Bay Area artists working in dance, film, public space, and theater, who push the boundaries of creative expression, anchor local communities, and advance the field.

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