2019 Education Scholarships
Awarded Artists:
Željka Blakšic
Željka Blakšic AKA Gita Blak born in Zagreb, Croatia (ex- Yugoslavia) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City. Her inspiration often stems from the sub-culture of the 1990s-era in Croatia, when punk, anarcho and eco movements were having a renewal. Her artistic career began in early adolescence in the field of music and performance. The current work reflects long-term collaborations with different subculture groups, collectives or choirs often placed in non- traditional architectural spaces. She works across multiple disciplines; the constants in her practice are performance, 16mm film, video and installation.
Susie Ibarra
Susie Ibarra is a composer, percussionist and sound artist based in New Paltz, New York. She is a Yamaha, Paiste and Vic Firth Drum Artist. Ibarra is a 2018 Asian Cultural Council Fellow in support of her project, Himalayan Glacier Soundscapes, An Acoustic Story on Climate Change. She is mapping and researching sound data from source to sink along the Himalayas into the Ganges with glaciologist and geomorphologist Michele Koppes.
Sarada Rauch
Sarada Rauch is an artist, poet and musician born in Los Angeles and based in Brooklyn. Rauch’s work reenacts popular media and intimate memory, collapsing them into each other to explore the construction of histories and unbelonging. She works primarily in digital and new media with a practice that includes sculpture, writing, and performance.
Nicole Goodwin
Nicole Goodwin is the author of Warcries, as well as the 2018-2019 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, 2017 EMERGENYC Hemispheric Institute Fellow as well as the 2013- 2014 Queer Art Mentorship Queer Art Literary Fellow. She published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” in the New York Times’ parenting blog Motherlode. Additionally, her work ‘”Desert Flowers” was shortlisted and selected for performance by the Women’s Playwriting International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
Jenn Grossman
Jenn Grossman is a sound/experiential media artist/composer concerned with the psycho-spatial possibilities of ephemeral media, exploring displaced realities, staged synchronicity, cyclical time, memory, disembodiment, and perceptual affect as components of composition. Her work has taken the form of modular sound sculptures/installations, multichannel sound works, light/projection events, ambient soundscapes, video projection installations, and public interventions.