2023 Recipients
Queens Arts Fund (QAF) offers project-based grants to Queens-based artists, artist collectives, and small non-profit organizations to support the local production of artwork and cultural programs that highlight, engage, and bolster the diverse communities of the Queens borough.
In 2023, 142 recipients will be supported by $457,600 in total funding, include poetry; plays; and community-based, dance, film, installation, multimedia, music, textile, and sculptural works that explore topics including immigrant experiences; cultural, racial, and gender identity; the pandemic and its impacts; climate change; and home and placemaking.
2023 Queens Arts Fund Recipients
Arts Access
City Gate Productions, “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” by Steve Martin
Como un lugar, Como un Lugar: Annual Latin-American Poetry Festival
DanceStream Projects, Stories in the Moment: Our Portraits
Dovecote Collective, Sunday Outdoor Art Classes on 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights
Gotham Dance Theater, Summer Suite 5.0
Headwall Theatre Company Inc, 1 in 4 written by Michelle Orosz and B.J. Boothe
Jackson Heights Beautification Group, Summer Sundays In The Park
Jasmin Chang and Kisha Bari (JCKB Studios), Hey Neighbor NYC
JH Art Talks, JH Art Talks 2023 Season
Kofago Dance Ensemble, Kwanzaa Celebration 2023
Leonel Linares & Company, Las Heroinas
Los Herederos, Diversity Plaza: Documenting as Resistance
Lyrical Faith Poetry, Real Life Writers Poetry Project: Queens Edition
MingLiang Lu & Sharlene Chou / Magic Ming Studio; Chinese Calligraphy, Paper Cutting, and Craft Workshops for Celebrating Lunar Year of the Rabbit
Mobile Print Power, Mobile Print Power: Back to the Streets
Multicultural Sonic Evolution, “Music of Japan” – from traditional to contemporary
New York Kathak Festival, New York Kathak Festival Pop-Up! Concert 2023
No, YOU Tell It!; No, YOU Tell It! True-Life Tales with a Twist
NY Son Jarocho Collective, The 13th NY Son Jarocho Festival
Paige “Queen TuT” Stewart of The Kingdom Tribe, Where’s The Money Interactive Panel Discussion
Queens Jazz OverGround, Queens Jazz OverGround 2023 Fall Jazz Fest
Queens World Film Festival, The Listing Tour
Royal Star Theatre, All Shook Up
Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre, Free Sunday Performing Arts | Queens Outdoor Dance Festival 2023
The Blue Bus Project, Clean & Green: Renewable Solar Energy
The Garage Art Center; See, Touch, & Create Art!
The Motor Company, Communal Spaces
Woodside Arts Collective, Sunnyside/Woodside International Dance Day
New Work
Taaj Al Khaliq, Found Flowers
Santina Amato, Blurred Boundaries
Hannah Antalek, solo exhibition at 5-50 Gallery
Suha Araj and Hala Araj, Who Is Naya?
Helixx C. Armageddon, Museum of My Heart
Daphne Arthur, Fragile Intangibilities
Back to the Lab, Re-imagining Family Archives
Black Petal Theatre, In The Woods Somewhere
Emma Rose Brown, Moving Narratives
Adriel Vincent Brown – The Force, The Force Live
Janet Bruesselbach, Beloved Monsters
Kathleen Capdesuñer, Fefu y Sus Amigas
Graciela Cassel, River Tales
Luz Castaneda and Alexandre Barranco, Healing Leaves: The Myth of the Orisha Ossanhe
Ashley Chew, Open Book
Jenny Eunjung Cho, where we lift and displace the stones of time
Kristie Chua, Ideas for Reverse Destruction
YunRay Chung, Re-birth-ing
David Claman and Matthew Curran, Song Cycle for Bass Singer and Piano
Magaly Colimon-Christopher, Access Granted
Andrew Cornell Robinson, Confabulations + Fantabulosas
Danny Crump, Ceramics To-Go
Alberto Denis, Christina Eskridge, and P.Tyler Britt, The Bound Diablo
Ilya Dynov, Ilya Dynov Group
eco|tonal (by David Crowell & Iva Casian-Lakos), eco|tonal
Daniel Henri Emond, Kill The Whale: A Musical Odyssey
Salvador Espinoza, The Given of The Place
Alessandra Expósito, Larger Childhood Maladies
Melinda Faylor, Sari-Sari Storybooks with Music
Nina Fiore, Astoria Film Festival; Disability is Diversity! Screening and Panel
Fragmentario, Entrelazado de Onoto en el Almacén de Madera (Annatto Interweaving in the Lumber Warehouse)
Elizabeth Bales Frank, Summers at the Dog Cafe
Funsch Dance, kid subjunctive
Santiago Galeas, Drag in Queens
Linda Ganjian, Her Hands | My Hands sculpture and open studio
Nancy Gesimondo, Portals
Wojciech Gilewicz, “Days and Nights” (2023) HD video work
Kristalyn Gill, LOOK AT ME
Jesse Greenberg, Naeemah Maddox, Charlie Rauh; Sunnyside Field Guide
Clair Gunther, Gesho: Creative Repair
Hank the Mason, Digital Rust
Annie Hart, String Quartet Performance in Grover Cleveland Park
Janet Loren Hill, Parachute Games: Steinway Village
Emily Hockaday, In a Body & Ecopoetry Workshops
Alexa Hoyer, Fallow Frames
Hsiao-Chu Hsia, The Third Party
Chemin Hsiao, From Past to Present
Chieh Hsiung, Islanders
Dena Igusti, A Bit Tuary
Michelle Jaffé, Grifter’s Gambit
Elliot k Johnson, Q lite artist project
Lidiya Kan, Wilderness Pursuit
Satoshi Kanazawa, Exploring Art Song: The World of Kaneko Misuzu
Midori Kaneko Larsen, Seeds of Dreams
Yui Kitamura; Three Folktales from Kagoshima, Japan
John Kitses, Last Days at the Iron Triangle
Lauren Klenow, Pollinator Tower
Wing Kong, Reclaimed Habitat – Ruby Tears
Mo Kong, Swift Island Chain
Alexandra Kumala, 20 Years
Kuya, Tales From Ophir: Moros y Cristianos
Adonis LaMoss, Phantasía
Cindy Lan, Dots on Plates (for solo viola, string ensemble & percussion)
Meadow Land, Ava’s Dream
Laura Lappi, Palace Basilica
Anthoula Lelekidis, Fragments of Diaspora
Franck Lesbros, CLOUDNESS
Rejin Leys, Reading the River
Cecilia Lim, From Queens to Our Motherlands: Remember Y(our) Connection
Claire Marie Lim/dolltr!ck, Light: Songs of the Sisterhood
David R. Lincoln & Sara Wallace, Geodes – A Project for Locative Media in Queens
Carla Lobmier, What Now? Six Women Answer
Melissa Martinez, The Politician
David Anaya Maya, Homeland Traces
Derick Melander, To Reshuffle the Sun
Sharon Miller, Pass The Crown – an editorial style portrait project honoring men and women of color living with Dementia
Momedy, Momedy
Jeffrey Morabito, Lost Pets
Nitin Mukul, Heat Maps: Queens
Julian Louis Phillips, STAMPEDE Press
Cristián Pietrapiana & Andrés Senra, F L O O D
Michael Poast, Color Music Timelessness “Density”
Queens Center Of The Arts, Wear The Artist
Colin J. Radcliffe, TO FEEL THESE THINGS
Radicle Community Arts, Creative Family Gathering
erin reid, as the weft moves (Working Title)
Skyler Reid, Me and My Shadow
Daniel Roberts, East River environmental expedition
Robus Dance Theatre Ensemble, Take 5: Lighten up your commute
Regine L. Sawyer, Queens Fiber Arts Festival
Seamus Scanlon, The Long Wet Grass/An Féar Fada Fliuch (Bilingual Rehearsed Reading English/Irish)
Roxanne Scott; The History of Queens, NY in 7 Dishes: A Live Anthology
Rin Seo, Rin Seo Project: Large Ensemble
Guillermo Severiche, Sobrevuelo: An Illustrated Short Story Collection in Spanish on Pigeons and Their Lives in New York
Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, An Evening of New Classics
Minshik Shin, To benefit everyone in the world
Dani Changah Song, Prayer Cocoon
Shauna Sorensen and Annabelle Popa, Gossamer 3.0
Harley Spiller, Woodside Heights Art Museum
Marissa Stanton, Furious Cooking
Jacquelyn Strycker, More Than I Can Hold
Tierra Narrative — members leading project: Keni Guillen, Génesis Mancheren Abaj, and Frisly Soberanis; [Untitled] Anthology on Grief
Titan to Tachyons, The Abolition of Linear Time
Alvin Tsang, Siyan Wong; People’s Land
Jeanne Verdoux, Female Vaisselle
WMN, Thresholds
Angela Wong Carbone, Minor Legends
Tracy Yang, Scene Taiwan III
Lily Yang, SHADOW PLAY: Tales of Immigration
lu yim, Pieces of Earth We Eat
Jordan Young, In the Wake
Lu Zhang, Walking Ten More Steps
Zones of Exclusion team: Tusia Dabrowska, Wiktor Freifeld, Nina Gielen, Maria Grewe; Zones of Exclusion
Panelists
Wendy Angulo • Aaron Asis • Rosebud Ben-Oni • Hannah Berson • Kat Bloomfield • Jade Brown • Cara Cannella • Roxy Chang • Shawn Choi • Sheree Clement • Magaly Colimon-Christopher • Priscila De Carvalho • David Dean • Astrid Dong • Cynthia Epps • Maggie Gavin • Robert Anthony Gibbons • Catherine Goode • Joanna Gould • Lindsay Huang • Alexander Huaylinos • Grace Jahng Lee • Tarley Jordan • Ioanna Katsarou • Kengchakaj Kengkarnka • Jesse Lambert • Haksul Lee • Stephanie Lee • Sam Manning • Angela Miskis • Alice Mizrachi • Jesus Morales • Guillaume Muller • Spencer Murphy • Sui Park • María Elena Pombo • Nicole Reiner • Larion Ross • Malissa Saghatchi • Richard Shpuntoff • Priscilla Stadler • Mario Torres • Jessica Van Grouw • Carrie Sijia Wang • Haibei Wang • Poyen Wang • Tony Williams • Lu Zhang
Image Courtesy: Jasmin Chang and Kisha Bari of JCKB Studios (Queens Arts Fund Arts Access ’23), “Hey Neighbor NYC,” Photo Credit: Emily Schiffer for Hey Neighbor NYC
