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2023 USA Fellowship

  • Fiber Arts Knowledge Bearer
    A man with brown skin and black goatee poses wearing a black, long-sleeved collared shirt with a net woven from natural fibers draped over his left shoulder and a carved pendant hanging from his neck. Behind him is a large bush with elongated green leaves.
  • Musician and Multidisciplinary Artist
    A close-up of a person's face wearing black shades and a golden headdress with a golden halo. They have medium-brown skin and a neatly trimmed beard. Their face is partly obscured by their outstretched hands.
  • Transdisciplinary Artist
    A portrait of a South Asian artist with brown skin, dark brown eyes, and long dark hair falling on the right side of her face. She's looking straight into the camera, posed in front of a stucco wall. She is wearing a black silk blouse with spaghetti straps, and on her left ear is a hanging pearl earring from India.
  • Writer and Performing Artist
    A multi-gendered, gray-haired, African-American lesbian artist poses in front of a bookshelf with a big smile. They are wearing a black shirt and a necklace with a light blue stone.
  • Media Artist
    Headshot of a cisgender woman with short purple hair wearing a yellow, black, and white tile-patterned shirt. The woman has pink tinted skin and dark red lips with a high gloss finish.
  • Painter and Papermaker
    A Chinese woman with dark, shoulder-length hair and silver-rimmed glasses stands in front of the red leaves of a sourwood tree. She looks into the camera smiling.
  • Interdisciplinary Artist and Ritualist
    A headshot of a Latinx person of Mexican-American descent wearing a serape poncho posing in front of a yellow wall. His face is slightly tilted back, and he is wearing a gold septum piercing and staring directly at the viewer.
  • Sculptor and Ceramicist
    A headshot of a woman with light-brown skin, dark tightly sprung curls cut short, and retro tortoiseshell rimmed glasses. Her smile creates gentle lines on her cheeks.
  • Choreographer, Dancer, and Multidisciplinary Artist
    A sun-skinned, mixy transmasculine person rests against a tree with a ball cap on looking directly into the camera. They have scraggly chin beard, gold septum piercing, and they wear a denim gray button-down shirt.
  • Food Designer and Social Practice Artist
    A brown-skinned Black woman with shoulder-length locs standing in front of a domed plant conservatory with shrubs and plants in the background. She is wearing a sage-green leather beret and an off-the-shoulder cream-colored sweater.
  • Interdisciplinary Filmmaker
    Headshot of an artist in his studio. He looks directly at the camera and wears a gray blue T-shirt that is torn along some of the seams. He has light tan skin, a shaved head, and a thick brown mustache.
  • Experimental Dancer, Choreographer, and Improviser
    A headshot of a Japanese woman wearing a gray turtleneck sweater and green cardigan. She looks over her right shoulder to stare directly at the viewer with brown eyes. She has long, black hair and is slightly smiling.
  • Choreographer and Tap Dancer
    A woman of color with long hair and top knot bun wearing a black vest and black-and-white patterned top smiles and looks to her left against a white background.
  • Conceptual Fiber Artist
    A headshot of a Nigerian-American woman taken against a white background. She has deep brown skin, a coily, close-cropped salt-and-pepper afro, and is smiling directly at the camera. She is wearing a soft black cardigan over a yellow knit sweater, a pair of thin gold hoop earrings, and a delicate gold necklace.
  • Musician
    A Pakistani woman poses against a black background, leaning over a table with crossed arms. She wears a black and gray blazer with gold rings on her fingers and looks to the left of the camera.
  • Artist, Composer, and Academic
    Headshot of a woman with tan skin and long brown hair in front of a dark background. She wears a black long-sleeved dress, silver chain, and wide-brimmed black hat.
  • Queer Storyteller
    A portrait of a person wearing pale makeup accented by bright pink and turquoise around the eyes. He has a gray beard and face-framing wavy gray hair that reaches his bare shoulders. He wears sequined arm-length turquoise gloves and leans his head on one hand against a dark backdrop.
  • Filmmaker and Civic Media Worker
    A black-and-white portrait of a Black man with a mustache, beard, and shoulder-length locs wearing a back button-up shirt and silver, circular glasses.
  • Navajo Tapestry Weaver
    A woman with shoulder length black and gray hair smiles at the camera with her hands clasped in front of her. She is wearing a black traditional Navajo outfit and traditional turquoise and silver jewelry, including bracelets, rings, and necklaces.
  • Weaver and Fashion Designer
    A CHamoru person with light-brown skin and a goatee smiles warmly at the camera. They are wearing a woven pandanus hat, spondylus necklace, and white button-up shirt.
  • Cultural Organizers and Performers
    A photograph of two Black people, indee mitchell and Nathalie Nia Faulk, laughing and looking fantastic in front of a sparkling purple-and-white backdrop. They are both wearing black and white. mitchell stretches their leg and white platform boot out in front of them. Faulk is bent to the side with a wide grin, arm raised to touch their forehead.
  • Writer
    A person with short gray hair smiles warmly, their gaze off camera. They are wearing a flower-patterned vest, earrings, and a necklace and standing in front of a grassy backdrop.
  • Sculptor
    A black man with a white goatee looks into the camera with a small smile. He is wearing a patterned cap and a checkered sweater over a tan collared shirt and is seated in his studio with wooden sculptures arranged behind him.
  • Writer
    A white, transmasculine, nonbinary person with short, dark hair stands against a shingled wall. Their arms are crossed, and they wear a white shirt, black-and-white tie, and black leather jacket. Bubbles float through the picture; one hovers over their Adam’s apple.
  • Poet
    A Native American woman with gray hair, brown skin, and dark eyes poses wearing a light purple-colored blouse with a necklace of seashells. Desert mountains are in the distance behind her, along with a saguaro cactus, brush, and trees.
  • Filmmaker
    An Asian American woman with shoulder-length black hair with gray highlights looks into the camera. She is wearing glasses and a black shirt against a polka-dot background.
  • Design Justice Architect
    A Black man with a Caesar haircut sits in front of a stack of newspapers. He wears a green long-sleeved button-down shirt and denim jeans.
  • Artist
    A woman with short, dark brown hair looks directly at the camera with a small smile. She is wearing burgundy lipstick and a traditional woven dress from northern Mexico. Her arms are crossed loosely in front of her, showing a large snake tattoo wrapping around her right arm and a tattoo of three lines on her left forearm. The background is out of focus and shows an empty, wooden white hallway.
  • Storyteller, Stickman, and Ring Shouter
    A black man sits against a wooden wall, gazing into the camera. He is wearing a straw hat at an angle, a collared shirt under denim overalls, and colorful beaded necklaces.
  • Writer and Director
    A slender person with dark, shoulder-length hair stands on a dirt road at sunset, smiling with their arms crossed at their waist. Behind them are a few Joshua trees.
  • Movement Artist
    A Puerto Rican artist with light skin smiles while standing in front of lush green foliage. She has short, curly dark-brown hair with wisps of gray strands. Her head is tilted slightly to the left, and her mouth is open wide with an expression of joy.
  • Designer and Musician
    A woman with lavender hair looks upward and smiles; warm orange light bathes her light skin. Behind her is a backdrop of hand-painted clouds floating over a body of water.
  • Ensemble Theatre Artist and Culture Worker
    A Black woman smiles warmly into the camera. She wears a royal blue headwrap and large silver earring hoops.
  • Visual Artist
    A photograph of a woman with brown skin and dark brown eyes gazing directly into the camera with a serious expression. Her long, voluminous curly black hair falls around her shoulders and fills the frame of the photo.
  • Artist
    An Asian American woman poses with her body in profile, looking into the camera over her left shoulder. She is wearing a red denim jacket and black sunglasses with her blonde dyed hair around her shoulders, and she is standing against a red-orange painted house.
  • Architect and Analogue Immersive Installation Artist
    A Black woman with medium-brown skin, corkscrew curly brown shoulder-length hair, brown eyes, and dimples. She smiles at the camera with a warm expression and gentle smile lines.
  • Writer, Composer, and Performer
    A black woman with curly hair wearing a denim tank top smiles while looking down on a balcony overlooking the skyline of Mannahatta.
  • Electronic Composer
    A black woman stands grinning against a black wall with the street out of focus behind her. She wears glasses, a red T-shirt, and a blue hat.
  • Transdisciplinary Visual Artist, Choreographer, and Healer
    A bearded person stands in profile looking off camera. His long, dark hair is woven into two braids. He wears a black bandana around his forehead and a black shirt with colorful embroidered accents.
  • Theatre-Maker and Social Justice Activist
    A Japanese American woman with an olive complexion and shoulder-length black hair smiles from behind her laptop computer. She is holding a red coffee cup in one hand, and a vase of lovely white roses rests on the table behind her.
  • Poet
    A person wearing rimless glasses and a purple sweater sits in front of a stone wall looking slightly away from the camera.
  • Filmmaker
    A Black woman with a light brown complexion wears glasses and a turquoise blouse with dark-blue and orange accents. Her long hair is in silver braids that reach to her mid-back. She sits in front of a yellow background looking decisively at the camera.
  • Ceramic Artist
    A slender woman with brown skin sits for her portrait, smiling slightly. She wears a light pink turtle-neck sweater, dangling earrings, and magenta head wrap.
  • Interdisciplinary Artist and Experimental Writer
    A Black person with brown skin, short hair, and red lipstick standing inside of a large warehouse in the GBAR Experiment at CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
  • Choreographer and Humanity Advocate
    A headshot of a Black and Indigenous person who has almond-shaped eyes with long lashes, dark brown skin, full beard, and long black locs tied in a low braid. The individual is wearing a brown shawl and smiling.