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Announcing Grit Fund 2022 Jurors

By April 5, 2022No Comments

Meet Our Grit Fund Jurors!

Next week, we’ll be announcing the official winners of the 2022 Grit Fund Awards, but first, let’s meet the folks who worked on the committee!

An abstract image with the colors pink, peach, and orange are in the shape of a triangle standing on it's point. A dark brown wave bisecting the image.A. Moon is an experimental film and video maker whose work has screened nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of awards from the Princess Grace Foundation and numerous film festivals. In recent years, she has also been a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, a fellow with the Center for Asian American Media, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award winner (x3), a Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Rubys grantee for media (x2), and a Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist (x3).

 

A hexagon frames Amy Reid's light skinned face with a slight smile, glasses and pink hair. The background is a hot pink with a few white angled lines.Amy Reid (Grit Fund 2019 Recipient) is a Baltimore-based queer electronic musician, producer, sound and visual artist striving to transform spaces sonically, socially, and visually. Since 2010, she has toured nationally and internationally in her band Chiffon and solo in the UK, France and Portugal and has shared the stage with critically acclaimed artists. Ranging from DIY foundations to Museums, she has performed at The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Walters Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Kennedy Center, and at the Red Bull Amaphiko Festival held in Baltimore, MD 2018.

 

A triangle image of Ayla Jai looking directly into the camera. They have medium brown skin, curly dark hair and a slight smile. A deep orange background is intersected with white linesAyla Jai is an artist native to Baltimore City. Their love of creative expression has led them to publish poetic works, appear on stage and screen, and lead educational workshops for local youth. They have worked in event coordination, community engagement and communications acting as a support to numerous nonprofits throughout Baltimore, and continue that work as a juror with The Grit Fund.

 

 

A hexagonal shape of Rachel Bone looking directly into the camera. She has light skin, a slight smile and red wavy hair. The background is turquoise with white intersecting linesRachel Bone (Grit Fund 2019 Recipient) is an artist, writer, and arts organizer in Baltimore City. In her 18 years in Baltimore, she has grown a socially conscious apparel line, co-founded an arts collective, nurtured an active art practice, written about art, craft, and entrepreneurship in the Mid-Atlantic region, taught print and digital arts at Towson University, and co-founded a thriving international animation festival featuring live music and performances.

 

A triangle shape image of Talbolt Johnson grins widely. He has medium brown skin, facial piercings and a beard. White intersecting lines bisect the imageTalbolt Johnson is an alchemist, dancer, dreamer, and advocate for dance since 2005. He pursued a career in art only to discover movement for over a decade in the Baltimore area and the east coast. Johnson explores the functions of the human body, imagination, mythos, and space in unison. His work attempts to contemplate and comment on the intersection between expression and identity. He is a street dancer, writer, and musician of life.

 

Stay tuned for more next week!

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