Artist Support Grantees – 2025 Cycle I
The Broward Cultural Division’s Artist Support Grant provides direct funding to individual artists across all disciplines, empowering them to create and present new projects that engage the public and enrich Broward’s cultural landscape.
Below, we celebrate the 2025 grantees and highlight the events and projects they’re bringing to our community with this support.
Susan Buzzi
Susan Buzzi is an arts educator, coach and longtime child/women’s advocate whose work has highlighted domestic violence, human trafficking, and societal challenges. Her photodocumentary work explores community collaborations centered on mindfulness, kindness, balance and wellness through the creative process and expressive therapy applications.
Creative Wellness is an intergenerational and multidisciplinary art therapy-based community collaborative, celebrating balance and mindfulness through creativity. It incorporates music, word art, collage, and the coloring of mandalas to explore emotions, de-stressing techniques, focus and creativity.
Alejandra Czarny
Singer and songwriter Alejandra Czarny has been performing Spanish and Yiddish songs since her teenage years.
Nowhere Land Songs: A Concert of Yiddish Music will present a curated collection of Yiddish songs, both original and traditional, each infused with Latin American rhythms and genres. Each piece tells a unique story, providing context and background to its significance.
Gabriela Gamperl
Gabriela Gamperl is an artist who works in multiple mediums from acrylic to watercolors and ink, and often finds inspiration in nature.
En Plein Air art classes on the grounds of the Deerfield Beach Historical Society Cultural Center are based on mid-century artists with content exploring a range of visual art techniques and topics popular during that time and applying them to surfaces such as fabric, clay, canvas, foam, plexiglass, and paper.
Mona Gandomkar
Mona Gandomkar is an Iranian-born, multidisciplinary designer whose work explores women’s issues and emotional awareness through a unique fusion of traditional graphic design and modern technology. Her innovative approach incorporates interactive design, augmented reality, and motion graphics.
Hidden Voices is an immersive, interactive experience that highlights the unspoken challenges and societal pressures faced by women. Using motion graphics, projections, and augmented reality, the project invites viewers to uncover hidden messages embedded within seemingly ‘positive’ phrases often used to define girls.
Kim D. Harris
Kim D. Harris is an educator, mixed-media fiber artist, yogi, and 25-year breast cancer survivor whose journey has inspired her creative and healing work.
A Stitch in Time: An Afrofuturistic Tribute to Breast Cancer Warriors reimagines breast cancer survivors as Galactical Healers and Tech-Infused Alchemists, merging ancient wisdom with futuristic innovation.
Dana Kleinman
KX2 is a collaboration between Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman, sisters, and artists whose artwork delves into the domain of data research, with a focus on climate change and water infrastructure to illuminate pressing environmental concerns.
Ripple Effect is an exhibition examining the fragile relationship between urbanization and the environment in which the artists aim to not only reflect upon the impact of climate change on infrastructure, but also to provoke a dialogue about the future of our communities and planet.
Aasha Marie
Aasha Marie is a singer, rapper and poet who creates socially conscious music that aims to bring spiritual transformation to cultures and communities in need.
The project Emmett Road is a narrative of personal pain and triumph that pays tribute to Emmett Till, whose tragic death sparked a movement. The live debut concert by Aasha Marie is meant to be one of hope, inspiration, and pure gospel.
Brady Newbill
Musician, writer, producer, event coordinator and educator, Brady Newbill, has been involved in Broward County’s cultural community for nearly two decades. He currently fronts the indie-rock quartet Nervous Monks.
Nervous Monks’ first full-length album As You Like It pays tribute to life in South Florida and what it means to remain creative and true to your vision exploring themes of generational cycles, loss and the history of South Florida’s ecology and development.
LuRu
LuRu has been a multimedia artist for the past 30 years.
Marking the Moments is an exhibition of paintings based on conversations with a range of local cultural communities about their approach to seasonal change and ritual that will incorporate a narrative of nature and spirituality.
Tina Wright
Tina Wright is a mixed-media artist who uses reclaimed materials in her whimsical, three-dimensional, mixed-media and assemblage artworks inspired by body image, transformation, and healing.
Wild Inside is a series of audio, visual, and participatory artistic events that allow participants to create their own portraits, celebrating how perceived differences make us all beautifully individual and imperfectly the same.
Crystal Sawyer
Crystal Sawyer is a harpist who performs solo and in ensembles and orchestras throughout South Florida and beyond, collaborating with jazz and classical musicians, dancers, choreographers, poets, and visual artists.
Harp Ensemble for The Beginning Harpist is a harp ensemble workshop for students.
Laurie Tanner
Laurie Tanner is a playwright, actor and director who is the co-founder of Femuscripts Productions, a non-profit that specializes in amplifying the voices of women playwrights.
Hostile Architecture: I’m Still Here is a play following two otherwise ordinary women whose lives intersect when they become homeless. Through humor and dramatic storytelling, it explores their resilience and loyalty towards each other as they negotiate the cold reality of being homeless in Miami.
Nicole Yarling
Violinist, vocalist, mentor, and university lecturer, Nicole Yarling has been actively involved in the South Florida community for over 40 years. Her passion includes young people, music, history, literacy, and creating a space for creative freedom.
A Matter of Black Lives offers a fresh perspective on stringed instruments. The multimedia performance celebrates string playing beginning in West Africa through the present day from a Black perspective and provides students with context and historical details while allowing them to take part in the performance.
Learn more about this grant opportunity for artists and upcoming applications online.
