ANNOUNCING THE 2022 TAKE NOTICE FUND AWARDEES

 

The National Performance Network is thrilled to announce the second cohort of the Take Notice Fund, honoring artists of color in Louisiana.

The Take Notice Fund awards $5,000 grants to artists and culture bearers of color living and working in Louisiana. These artists’ bodies of work represent excellence, dedication to their practices, and contributions to this country’s discourse about racial justice and cultural preservation. Grant funds are unrestricted and intended to support an artist’s creative practice and/or wellbeing. The initiative is supported with generous funding from the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression program.

“The award honors those who have decided, ‘I’m going to commit my life to this artistic practice, to always learning, to observing what’s going on in my community and the world,’” said NPN’s Director of Southern Programs Stephanie Atkins. “It comes down to excellence—these artists are pushing the needle further. There is work in this cohort that is fresh and unapologetic, that captures where we are right now as a society.”


INTRODUCING THE 2022 TAKE NOTICE FUND AWARDEES


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Jasmin Anderson / Jazz D’Miracle
Elenora “Rukiya” Brown
Juicebox P. Burton
Geeta Dave
Freddi Williams Evans
Andrea Garcia
Jarrell Hamilton
LaTonya Jackson
Mendel Lee
Les Cenelles
Lilli Lewis Folk Rock Diva
Chandra McCormick
Big Chief Demond Melancon
Tommye Myrick
Ruth Owens
Cecelia “Cely” Tapplette Pedescleaux
L. W. Grayhawk Perkins
Rontherin Ratliff
Karla Rosas
Vitus Shell
Big Queen Denice Smith
Spy Boy Walter
Synamin Vixen
Gabrielle Tolliver
Angela Tucker
Monica Tyran
John Isiah Walton
Eric Waters
Lorna Williams Studios
Courtney C. Young

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