Meet the 2024 bursaries and grants recipients
Our Creative Bursary supports individual artists and practitioners across genres and oeuvres: electronic music producers, painters, filmmakers, illustrators, photographers, sound designers, and classical composers make up just a handful of the selected beneficiaries.
An independent jury, committed to change
Each year the foundation assembles a jury of artists, educators and organizers that shares its commitment to promoting diversity in the arts and empowering marginalized communities.
2024 sees three former grantees join our panel: interdisciplinary artist Halar Soomro, Hannah Robathan of shado mag, and Lara Parmiani of the LegalAliens theater company.
Alongside them are educator and social transformation campaigner Anaïs Esmeraldo, author and cultural producer Chrisoula Lionis, designer Marika Seo, award-winning artist and innovator Charlotte Hochman, technological justice advocate Maya Richman, and co—matter founder Severin Matusek. These nine are joined by Lina Ruiz, director of social responsibility at WeTransfer, the foundation’s key supporter.
This year the jury were once again hard-pressed to select grantees from the hundreds of diverse and impressive applications. As jury member Severin Matusek explained, he was “inspired by people and projects taking action; identifying and addressing a problem, creating meaningful change by and for those that directly experience it and are affected by it” and “by projects that are creating new formats and platforms that bring people together, that foster discourse, exchange and solidarity.”
Impact Grant 2024:
- Afrodiaspora 2.0
- Black Girls Glow
- Bosla Arts
- Las Pibas Producen
- Lowercase Theatre
- Making Things UP
- Much cooler than yours
- Other Cinemas
- Planta Inclan
- SAMAR
- Solomiya Collective
- Untitled Tbilisi
Creative Bursary 2024:
- Abdellah Rais
- Ayham Allouch
- Bee McQueen
- Gifty Amoateng
- Haiqing Wang
- Jocelyn Arnold
- Kani Lent
- Lauren Musa-Green
- Lele Bonizzi
- Leroy Berger
- Lotte Siu
- Mahshad Rezai
- Makossiri
- Masha Bolšakova
- Ramon Theobald Seabra da Cruz
- Sarah Ama Duah
- Sheyda Hashemi
- Sylvie Pedra Akamba
- Thu Vân Nguyễn
- Tú Pham
You can read more about our grantees here: Impact Grant + Creative Bursary, and about our Jury here.