2022 Artist2Artist Fellow Jeremy Dennis. Beach Access (series), 2022. Digital print. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Announcing the 2022 Artist2Artist Fellows ([link removed])

Art Matters Foundation ([link removed]) is proud to announce the second year of Artist2Artist, a program where our grant recipients — artists — act as grantmakers. This year, the Board elected 15 grantees (including 6 Art Matters alumni and 9 artists new to Art Matters support) to both receive and give a fellowship, resulting in 30 Artist2Artist Fellows. The artist-grantmakers and Art Matters' Board were asked to consider the following guidelines as they made their selections:
* Artist2Artist recognizes that artists do not necessarily identify as professional artists, and rely on and collaborate with other broadly defined cultural workers.
* Artist2Artist seeks prospective grantmakers/grantees who align with our vision of giving through mutual aid, micro-granting, peer/community care, or other solidarity economy strategies.
* Artist2Artist seeks to support experimental practices and under-recognized artists.
* Artist2Artist seeks to foster stronger relationships between artists/culture workers.

These principles reflect feedback from the 2021 pilot year Artist2Artist Fellows, who identified barriers around the salient issues of precarity and care. Art Matters Director Abbey Williams ([link removed]) said, “Artist2Artist works to undo the divisive competitive structures, perpetuated by art institutions, both philanthropic and nonprofit. Through this new process, we seek to remove the gatekeeping to support and embolden those already building new networks toward true artists' sovereignty.”

In December, the foundation awarded 225K in Artist2Artist Fellowships to individual artists and culture workers who are also healers, activists, elders, and caregivers, addressing the long-term sustenance of their communities. Sharing her experience, 2022 Artist2Artist Fellow
Viva Ruiz ([link removed]) spoke about the game-changing aspect of recognizing the creative, communal, and spiritual in oneself and others, “For us to see each other is how I think art gets made, you know?"

2022 also marks the third year of the Betty Parsons Foundation ([link removed]) 's support for a portion of Art Matters grants. These named fellowships specifically support women/female-identified artists to honor the influential legacy of artist and gallerist Betty Parsons.

The
2022 Artist2Artist Fellows ([link removed]) are listed alongside their self-identified location: Panteha Abareshi ([link removed])
California

Rena Anakwe ([link removed])
Lenapehoking, Canarsie-Munsee Territory - Brooklyn, NY

Joss Barton ([link removed])
The Occupied Lands of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations - Chicago, IL

Mary Elizabeth Enoch Baxter ([link removed])
Lenapehoking - Philadelphia, PA

Ezra Benus ([link removed])
Lenapehoking - Brooklyn, NY

illx / Pablo Varona Borges ([link removed])
San Juan, PR

Tiffany Chung | 2010 Alumni ([link removed])
Houston, TX

Shani Peters & Joseph Cuillier (The Black School) ([link removed])
New Orleans, LA

Jeremy Dennis ([link removed])
Unceded Lands of the Shinnecock Nation - Southampton, NY

devynn emory ([link removed])
Lenapehoking, Canarsie-Munsee Territory - Brooklyn, NY

Amara Abdal Figueroa | 2019 Alumni & 2022 Betty Parsons Fellow ([link removed])
Federación Antillana - Ponce, Puerto Rico

Daesha Devón Harris ([link removed])
Saratoga Springs, NY

Nicole Hall (IdentityInc!) ([link removed])
Farmington, NM

Axel Eden ([link removed])
Brooklyn, NY

Paul John ([link removed])
New York, NY & Maastricht, NL

Tish Jones | 2019 Alumni ([link removed])
Dakota & Ojibwa Land - Saint Paul, MN

M. Carmen Lane (ATNSC) ([link removed])
Haudenosaunee Land - Cleveland, OH

Wit López ([link removed])
Lenapehoking - Philadelphia, PA

Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad ([link removed])
Lenapehoking - Philadelphia, PA

Ilknur Ozgur (Artstillery) ([link removed])
Dallas, TX

phlegm ([link removed])
New Orleans, LA

Chef Sherry Pocknett (Sly Fox Den) ([link removed])
Preston, CT

Kameelah Janan Rasheed | 2014 Alumni & 2022 Betty Parsons Fellow ([link removed])
Brooklyn, NY

Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond (Fannie Lou Hamer House) ([link removed])
Fairview Heights, IL

Viva Ruiz ([link removed])
Lenapehoking - Brooklyn, NY

Lady Shug | 2020 Alumni ([link removed])
Diné (Navajo) Nation Territory - Farmington, NM

Jaiko Suzuki ([link removed])
New York, NY

Brian Walker II ([link removed])
Anchorage, AK

Allison Akootchook Warden ([link removed]) | 2015 Alumni ([link removed])
Fairbanks, AK

Tassiana Willis ([link removed])
Ohlone "Yemalu" Territory - San Francisco, CA

Image: Beach Access (series) by 2022 Artist2Artist Fellow, Jeremy Dennis ([link removed]) , "is based on frustrations that the Shinnecock Nation community has experienced due to lack of accessibility to their ancestral beaches in Southampton town. Residents of Southampton Village can park at the local Coopers Beach for free, but non-residents must pay $50 per day or $400 for the season, including Shinnecock Tribal members. For thousands of years, Shinnecock people were whalers, canoers, Quahog Shell craftspeople, and thrived along Long Island's shores, but today must pay to practice these traditions. In Beach Access, attention is brought to this conflict by Indigenous figures blocking access from beach-goers, disallowing them to return to the sandy shores after entering the water for a swim."
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