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The Soros Arts Fellowship supports innovative mid-career artists and cultural producers advancing social change around the world. The fellowship provides artists with the resources to develop a large-scale project on their own terms in their own local contexts.
The Soros Arts Fellowship is a nomination-based award and does not currently receive unsolicited applications.
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Abdullah Alkafri
2020Abdullah Alkafri will work with artists and social actors to amplify unheard Syrian stories and champion new narratives about migration and the creativity of Syrians in exodus. -
Basel Abbas
2020Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme will examine how people bear witness to and narrate experiences of violence, loss, displacement, and forced migration through song and dance. -
Deborah Michele Carroll Anzinger
2020Deborah Anzinger will create community sculptures where personal histories, cultivation, and ecological records are shared within Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, a site of historic resistance and fugitivity. -
Meleko Mokgosi
2020Meleko Mokgosi will create an art series and digital archive to engage histories of Pan-Africanism in southern African photo novels and advocate for a re-conceptualization of Black consciousness. -
Nicholas Galanin
2020Nicholas Galanin will explore the relationship between migration and land from an Indigenous perspective, considering the environmental, social, and political consequences of climate change. -
Olu Oguibe
2020Olu Oguibe will address themes of flight and refuge, and recognize activists, sanctuary communities, public officials, and citizens for their hospitality towards strangers and refugees. -
Paloma McGregor
2020Paloma McGregor will develop a series of public performances, interventions, and engagements in spaces deemed “abandoned” or in danger of cultural erasure in Christiansted, St. Croix. -
Rachèle Magloire
2020Rachèle Magloire will organize Haitian and Dominican artists in exploring the border area, cultural commonalities between the two nations, and the often competing visions for the island held by its inhabitants. -
Ruanne Abou-Rahme
2020Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas will examine how people bear witness to and narrate experiences of violence, loss, displacement, and forced migration through song and dance.