Fifteen girls artists aged between 42 and 89 who’ve made “significant contributions” to their artistic disciplines have been awarded $50,000 every — no strings connected — as a part of up to date photographer Susan Unterberg’s Nameless Was A Lady grant, the group introduced immediately, November 20. An entire listing of grantees may be discovered on the finish of this text.
Named after a line in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Personal (1929), the Nameless Was A Lady prize is open to women-identifying artists 40 years of age or older. This yr’s grant doubles the $25,000 award of earlier years, bringing the whole quantity awarded to $750,000.
Whereas there are not any restrictions on how the artists can use the cash, the group stated the grant is meant to supply artists with the liberty to develop and develop their artistic visions at a “critical junction” of their careers.
Erica Baum’s “Fritillaries” (2021) (picture courtesy BUREAU, New York)
Takako Yamaguchi’s “Buckle” (2024) (© Takako Yamaguchi; picture courtesy the artist and Ortuzar Initiatives, New York)
Unterberg launched the grant in 1996 in response to the Nationwide Endowment of the Arts ending its monetary assist of particular person artists two years earlier, based on the group’s web site. According to the grant’s title, the acclaimed photographer remained nameless for over twenty years till she determined to disclose her title to turn into a “more effective advocate for women artists” in 2018, as she stated in an announcement. Beforehand, solely 10 artists acquired the award annually, however in 2021, that quantity elevated to fifteen.
Winners of the 2024 prize work in a broad vary of creative disciplines together with curation, pictures, fiber arts, arts activism, and pedagogy. The cohort was chosen from a pool of nominations from nameless arts professionals.
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, “Consecration to Mary” (2021), giclée print
Among the many 2024 grantees is New York-based artist Erica Baum, whose works mix textual content and pictures to create poetic pictures that draw consideration to language and its meanings. Additionally receiving the prize is Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist and former Proper of Return Fellow Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, whose solo exhibition Ain’t I a Lady, that includes a movie of the identical title, was on view on the Brooklyn Museum final yr.
Different winners embrace Rashida Bumbray, a choreographer and curator tracing the lineage of Black girls dancers; Argentinian-born printmaker, multi-media artist, and former Guggenheim Fellow Liliana Porter; Japanese-born summary painter Takako Yamaguchi; and New York-based multi-media artist Jen Liu, whose works tackles techno and biopolitics.
Nameless Was A Lady can be conducting a survey of girls visible artists to evaluate the problems that influence them. The group stated in an announcement that the info can be publicly distributed with the intent that artists use it for their very own activism, notably because it pertains to their relationship with arts establishments.
A nonetheless from Jen Liu’s The Land on the Backside of the Sea (2023)
Beneath is the complete listing of award recipients:
Erica Baum, 63Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, 42 Mary Lee Bendolph, 89Natalie Bookchin, 62Rashida Bumbray, 46Mary Ellen Carroll, 62Robin Hill, 69 Joyce Kozloff, 81Jen Liu, 48 Gladys Nilsson, 84 Liz Phillips, 73Liliana Porter, 83Shirley Tse, 56 Takako Yamaguchi, 72Constantina Zavitsanos, 47
Liliana Porter, “Untitled” (1973)
