Meet The 2024 Artist Support Regional Grantees
Meet The 2024 Artist Support Regional Grantees
The Broward County Division’s Artist Support Regional Grant is an exclusive opportunity that provides direct funding to professionals and established artists of all disciplines who reside in either Miami-Dade or Palm Beach Counties for programming in Broward County. The program aims to introduce Broward County residents to artistic programming that is being implemented in other areas of South Florida.
Selected artists must produce an event for the Broward County community. Below is more information about the 2024 selected grant recipients and their projects. For more details about the Artist Support Regional Grant, including upcoming cycle application workshops and the deadline, please visit Broward.org/Arts/Funding.
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Alejandra Abad
Alejandra Abad is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator from Caracas, Venezuela. Her work explores belonging, compassion, and community through creating new landscapes using layering, abstraction, and light. She draws from her studies in architectural and media art practices at various institutions in the U.S.
Water State
An experimental moving collage will explore South Florida as a refuge for flora, fauna, and human populations. An animation will be screened via outdoor projections, bringing the Everglades and natural world into spaces like the Pompano Cultural Center and other locations in Broward County.
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The Smoogies
Meet The Smoogies—a diverse, multi-talented musical group led by Vaughn “V.KEYS” Henry. Henry on keys and vocals, Dion Kerr on bass, Harvel Nakundi on drums and percussion, and David Chiverton on drums. Their music embodies a fusion of diverse musical training and experiences, and they have performed with acclaimed acts like Lauryn Hill, Snarky Puppy, and more. The Smoogies advocate for inclusivity through their music and are set to release their vibrant third album, a live recording captured in Miami.
The Smoogies Live! Album Release Tour
Breaking generational barriers, The Smoogies, will bring ‘People Music’ to Broward County. With a mission to create music that resonates with individuals of all backgrounds, the band’s live concert will incorporate singing, drumming, crowd participation, and dancing, with sounds drawn from Haiti, the Caribbean, classical music, and entire spectrum of Black American music.
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Amanda Linares
Amanda Linares, a Cuban-born artist based in Miami, has a technical degree in printmaking from San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and a BFA in graphic design from the New World School of the Arts. Her work explores themes like identity and displacement through various media, including design, drawing, installation, and photography. Linares has exhibited at The Frost Art Museum, participated in residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts and MASS MoCA, and received the 2022 Ellies Creator Award and the 2023 Corral & Carthers Artist Fund Award. She is currently a studio resident artist at Oolite Arts for 2024.
All Dialogues Across Walls
A project that delves into the interplay of materials and memory within the context of domestic spaces. It invites viewers to contemplate how our surroundings hold fragments of our experiences and how the boundaries between interior and exterior landscapes are fluid. An accompanying workshop will invite participants to visually represent their memories on concrete tile canvases crafted by the artist.
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Lindsey Mills
Lindsey Mills (she/they) is a multimedia artist and the bassist of the indie rock band Surfer Blood. She is a fifth-generation Floridian. Lindsey creates music, collages, zines, visual projections, and music videos. She also curates’ events and has recently started creating digital collectibles. In 2024, Lindsey was named the Music Ambassador to the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County. She is deeply involved in the South Florida art community. In October 2023, Bottlecap Press published Lindsey’s poems as a chapbook.
Art Onchain: Empowering Creators Through Blockchain
A blend of DIY ethos and blockchain technology will empower members of Broward County’s artistic community to access a future where they control their work, data, and audience. Three interactive workshops will demystify new technologies and help creators gain the tools to release art in any medium as NFTs.
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Ed Rosas
Ed Rosas is an illustrator and art professor based in Miami, Florida. He specializes in bold black and white crosshatched illustrations. The power of his illustrations and stories comes from their ability to incite empathy and reflection. Ed is fascinated with the human condition, which steers him into creating work that explores shared experiences, emotions, and challenges that are common to everyone.
Borders & Gutters: The Personal in Sequential Art
A group exhibition accompanied by five public workshops celebrating sequential art (aka comics) as an artistic storytelling medium. The preliminary sketches, finalized works, and video on display, promote a deeper understanding of comics as an art form, and reflect the individual stories and experiences of its participating artists.
