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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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Tiago Sant'Ana
2020Tiago Sant'Ana will explore the sugar cane trade and its intersection with forced migration and colonial violence in Brazil, drawing links between historical sugar production and inequalities today. -
Alex Rivera
2019Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera will produce and tour a theatrical version of their film The Infiltrators, a documentary thriller that tells the true story of a group of young immigrants who intentionally got themselves detained. -
Amanda Abi Khalil
2019Amanda Abi Khalil will organize a curatorial project on the theme of hospitality and the complex histories of migrations—voluntary and forced—between the Arab world and Brazil. -
Bouchra Khalili
2019Bouchra Khalili will work on a video installation that takes as its starting point a forgotten part of the struggle for equal rights for immigrants in France. -
Cristina Ibarra
2019Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera will produce and tour a theatrical version of their film The Infiltrators, a documentary thriller that tells the true story of a group of young immigrants who intentionally got themselves detained. -
Firelei Báez
2019Firelei Báez will create a series of paintings, sculptures, and architectural objects engaging with the story of Marie Louise Coidavid, the first Queen of Haiti, and her exile. -
Guadalupe Maravilla
2019Guadalupe Maravilla will organize a series of healing workshops, mental health resources, and performance classes for young Central American and Latinx immigrants in New York to help heal traumas of migration. -
Kaneza Schaal
2019Kaneza Schaal will stage a theatre production in Kigali, Rwanda, centered on stories of internal displacement and organize performance workshops throughout the country for youth living in housing for refugees and internally displaced people. -
Nontsikelelo Mutiti
2019Nontsikelelo Mutiti will explore African hair braiding practices as subject and as a metaphor for the braiding together of multiple streams of content through field work, archiving, design, and publishing.