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2024 USA Fellowship

  • Multi-Disciplinary Maker, Musician, Actor, and Writer
    Rendered in grayscale with purple accents, a person smiles up at us while holding a white electric guitar. Their hair is buzzed on the left side and long and flowing on the right. Their theatrical makeup shimmers and sparkles with glittery rhinestones placed in a semicircle around their left eyebrow.
  • Haida Artist
    TJ Young, a person with braided hair looks into the camera. Young is posed in front of a body of water and a small boathouse just out of focus in the background.
  • Sweetgrass Basket Weaver
  • Narrative Miniaturist
    A Black woman in her early seventies looks out beyond the camera. She wears silver hoop earrings, red lipstick, and a checkered top with a paper beaded necklace and a jade pendant. The white, angular planes of the King Memorial sculpture in Compton, CA, rise up behind her.
  • Glass Artist
    An Asian woman with transparent-frame glasses, blue scarf, and light gray shirt sitting for portrait.
  • Transdisciplinary Weaver
    A person in cream-colored sweater leans on a table and gazing into the camera. They are standing in a workspace in front of shelves lined with colorful skeins of thread.
  • Design Scientist
    A frontal-side view of a man with light-brown skin, a speckled goatee, and curly black hair that has been cut short at the sides resembling a mohawk.
  • Ceramicist
    A woman with shoulder-length brown curly hair poses next to a series of clay sculptures as big as her torso. One half of her hair is dyed blonde and she wears a white T-shirt with maroon-colored pants.
  • Playwright and Filmmaker
    A man with short gray hair and glasses smiles slightly with his arms crossed in front of him. He wears a multi-colored, patterned scarf and a dark pinstriped blazer.
  • Choreographer
    An older woman with long brown loose hair smiles softly at the camera. She is wearing a patterned blouse and hoop earrings.
  • Filmmaker
    A person of Asian descent with black hair in a mohawk style gazes to the left. They are wearing an unzipped black leather jacket.
  • Choreographer, Dancer, Educator, and Trans Activist
    A light-skinned trans-masculine person with a warm and confident smile. He is wearing a black T-shirt, glasses, and has a short brown pompadour.
  • Dance Artist
    A white woman with golden brown, shoulder-length hair and a beauty mark above their right eyebrow smiles and looks down towards the ground. They wear a black button-down shirt with a black leather harness laid over it.
  • Composer, Vocalist, Clarinetist, Producer, and Performer
    A person with brown skin, brown eyes, and short black hair, looks into the camera. They are wearing a red shirt, one blue earring, and have small tattoos on their neck.
  • Visual Artist
    A woman with short black-and-silver hair is smiling. She is wearing magenta lipstick, a black top, and a yellow knotted necklace.
  • Theater Maker and Story Weaver
    An older Native woman with short gray hair and glasses smiles widely. She wears a pink shirt, a beaded necklace, and earrings.
  • Musician
    A photo taken from a low angle shows a man with clear-framed glasses playing the clarinet with eyes closed. The horn of the instrument extends beyond the frame.
  • Writer and Performer
    A man with close-cropped hair and clear-rimmed glasses sits in a wooden chair by a window, gazing out at the viewer. He is wearing a turquoise necklace and all-black clothing.
  • Artist, Musician, and Educator
    A solid, soft pink square that touches all four sides of the image frame.
  • Artists and Filmmakers
    Three Indigenous male figures — two with dark hair and one with a baseball cap — stand in front of a brick wall at night. Each figure holds a slab of stone in their right hand, obscuring their faces.
  • Multidisciplinary Artist
    A woman poses on a stool in a studio space wearing a long white dress. Works in progress are laid out on a table behind her. A large work depicting rain droplets in black and blue hangs on the back wall.
  • Poet and Writer
    A black-and-white portrait of a middle-aged Syrian-Peruvian man with buzzed salt-and-pepper hair and mustache. He is wearing an Oxford button-down shirt and gazes out beyond the frame.
  • Composer and Percussionist
    A woman photographed from the shoulders up wearing a blue collared shirt and red lipstick with long hair combed over the left shoulder. She is positioned in front of mostly beige floral wallpaper drawing by visual artist Mara Baldwin.
  • Interdisciplinary Artist
    A tan-skinned person is pictured wearing gradient acrylic eyeglasses with clear lenses. Their shoulder-length black hair frames their face against a mostly white background.
  • Writer
    A Black woman with long locs pulled back from her face and a light-brown complexion sits at a desk in front of a bookshelf backdrop. She wears a pair of gold mesh-work earrings and green overalls with a black crop top underneath, baring her sleeve of colorful tattoos.
  • Writer
    A Black woman in a blue-checked dress stands in front of a dark background.
  • Installation Artist
    A grayscale photograph of a man with long dark hair wearing glasses. The photograph has little light, which causes his dark hair and black shirt to fade into the background.
  • Choreographer and Dancer
    A woman with long brown hair smiles against a leafy green backdrop. She wears an orange dress, a delicate necklace, and a small diamond-stud nose piercing.
  • Artist
    A thin Taiwanese femme with bleached blonde hair and black winged eyeliner sits on their fire escape surrounded by basil leaves in their garden.
  • Artist Activist
    A photo of a woman with dark brown hair and a happy smile. She wears a blue scarf, a black shirt, and dangling earrings that resemble butterfly wings.
  • Textile Artist
    A Punjabi-Chicanx artist with brown skin, dark-brown eyes, and dark, gray-streaked hair pulled up into a loose twist looks into the camera. They are posed against a black background, wearing a black shirt, their grandmother’s orange patterned scarf, earrings, and a nose ring.
  • Fiction Writer
    A Black woman wearing a blue dress and black jacket. She is standing in front of a bookshelf smiling and wearing red lipstick.
  • Artist and Filmmaker
    A woman with freckles and braids, looking at the camera with her head cocked to the right of the frame.
  • Artist
    A woman dressed in a white button-down collared shirt poses. Streaks of platinum blonde braids frame her face.
  • Chickasaw Classical Composer
    A Chickasaw man with braided hair smiles brightly. He is wearing a dark suit jacket and a traditional shell-carved medallion.
  • Dancer
    A dark-skinned Black man with a beard and blonde hair stands wearing a bright-blue worker jacket in front of a garden.
  • Choreographer, Conjurer, Corporal Spellcaster, and Storyteller
    A woman peers over her left shoulder with a black mesh hat and denim vest. She is wearing gold half moon–shaped earrings, and half of her face is painted silver.
  • Multidisciplinary Composer
    A mixed-race person with tan skin, mid-short cropped hair, short beard, and a black-and-silver outfit gazes beyond the camera.
  • Architect in Training
    A woman of Mexican descent is photographed from her left profile. She smiles and is dressed in a dark gray sleeveless dress as she looks over her left shoulder at the camera. Her long black hair falls straight behind her left ear that is adorned in multiple gold earrings.
  • Jewelry Artist and Object Maker
    An African American woman smiles at the camera. Her hair is curly and dark in a natural afro style with a colorful scarf tying it back. She is wearing overalls, black-and-white enameled earrings, and sparkly green glasses.
  • Filmmaker
    A woman smiling in front of blue-gray ocean waves. She has shoulder-length brown hair that flies in the wind and is wearing glasses and a khaki blazer.
  • Theater Director
    A woman wearing a navy-blue top with dark-gray hijab crosses her arms and looks into the horizon with a slight smile. Behind her are railings and an out-of-focus background.
  • Visual Poet
    An Asian woman with shoulder-length brown hair poses against a natural backdrop. She is wearing multi-colored earrings and a teal-blue cowl neck.
  • Architects and Artists
    Two people stand side by side, facing us directly. Emanuel is a Black man with a shaved head and a neatly-trimmed beard wearing a navy corduroy shirt. Jen is a white woman with light-brown hair wearing a long-sleeved black dress with a large white circle on the front.
  • Afro-Electronica Composer, Turntablist, and Drummer
    A person with short-cropped blonde hair sits in front of a set of drums, hands resting on their drumsticks.
  • Interdisciplinary Social Practice
    Two Latinx women stand with bare shoulders in a desert landscape in front of an ocotillo plant. The two figures are linked by a spiny nopal cactus on their shoulders.
  • Architect, Artist, and Community-Designer
    A woman of African descent smiles. She has copper-colored locs past her shoulders and is wearing red lipstick and a blouse with a pink-and-white Ankara print.
  • Architectural Designer
    A dark-skinned woman wearing a red sleeveless top and black-rimmed glasses looks out to her left.
  • Ceramic Sculptor and Installation Artist
    A Black woman with short hair looks out beyond the camera. She wears tear drop–shaped wire earrings, a colorful patterned shirt, and poses alongside a sculpture and mural.
  • Filmmaker, Writer, Director, and Producer
    A man stands in a projection booth, one elbow propped on a table next to him, looking into the camera. He has black hair that has been slicked back, a clean-shaven face, and light brown complexion.