Wagner Arts Fellowship
The Wagner Arts Fellowship recognizes mid-career visual artists working in Greater Boston who have a studio and/or public practice that illuminates issues confronting society and transforms our understanding of social change.
Detail of Blown Away: In Search of My Mother's Gardens by L'Merchie Frazier, 2022. Nylon and thinsulate fabrics, 70 × 30 inches.
Photo by Abhi Indrekar.
Overview
The Wagner Arts Fellowship, founded and supported by Wagner Foundation and administered by USA, recognizes mid-career visual artists working in Greater Boston who have a studio and/or public practice that illuminates issues confronting society and transforms our understanding of social change. The fellowship annually awards three artists at a pivotal moment in their artistic trajectory with unrestricted grants of $75,000 each, as well as access to supplemental artist services.
How We Collaborate
In 2024, USA began working closely with Wagner Foundation to meet with artists, curators, and arts administrators from across Boston to learn more about the local arts ecosystem and specific needs of the region's artists. From this research we developed a nomination and application process to identify artists who have a significant commitment to the region and investment in social issues in their work, whether through research, materials, process, or aesthetics.
Duration: 2025 - present
Services: Program design, administration
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Panelists
Wagner Arts Fellowship
Panelists
Panelists organized by year
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Chloë Bass
Artist, Co-Director, Associate Professor
Chloë Bass Studio, Social Practice CUNY, Queens College
Brookklyn, NY
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Ruth Erickson
Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Cambridge, MA
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Faheem Majeed
Artist and Co-Founder/Co-Director
Floating Museum
Chicago, IL
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Karin Goodfellow
Director of Transformative Art and Monuments
City of Boston Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture
Boston, MA
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