2016 Grant Recipients
WaveMaker Grants Cycle Two awarded fourteen grants, totaling $100,000 in thanks to the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts Regional Regranting. Additional major support for WaveMaker Grants 2016 was also provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, and Wells Fargo.
Awards were determined by a four-person jury of local and national arts professionals: Meg Leary, Director of Programs, United States Artists; Diana Reichenbach, Professor of Animation, Maryland Institute College of Art; Felice Grodin, artist, Miami, FL and 2015 WaveMaker Grantee; Rene Morales, Curator, Perez Art Museum Miami.
2016 WaveMaker Grantees:
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WASH
Wash is a site-specific score and music video composed for a car wash. It will be the first in a new video series that explores the contemporary connections between moving images and transportation, focused at first on car culture and the the contradictions of the automobile in contemporary life. Wash inverts the typical music video creation and distribution process, composing a score to accompany the car wash that will be playable for anyone traveling through the machine. The score will incorporate music and sound that references the ecological, mechanistic and design aspects of car washes, while also incorporating local musical culture and sound from the communities around the car wash venue. The project has three components--an online score publically available as an accompaniment for car wash patrons, an opening concert, and a music video documenting the score available for global viewing. The project is led by visual artist Agustina Woodgate, in collaboration with Miami-based composer and conductor Teddy Abrams, public curator and writer Stephanie Sherman, and Miami-based musicians.