ANNOUNCING THE 2025 WAVEMAKER GRANTEES!

WaveMaker Grants are made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' Regional Regranting Program, a network of 36 partner organizations across the country.

The twelve grant recipients were selected from 101 applicants with the criteria that none of the New Work, Long Haul or R+D applicants had received a Wavemaker grant in the past five years. Projects were selected for conceptual rigor and relevance to the local cultural, geographic, and socio-economic context, impact on the local community, and the accessibility of the resulting project to the public.

The 2025 WaveMakers are: Long-Haul Projects: Christopher Mitchell | Lucía Morales | Angela Rio | Gabriela Serra | Ermol Sheppard | Barron Sherer | Sofia Vailente; New Work / Projects: Roxana Barba | Sydney RoseMaubert; Research & Development + Implementation: Akia Dorsainvil | Gabriel Soomar | Teri Watson.

The 2025 WaveMaker selection panel included: Donnie Cervantes, Program Director at Warhol Regional Regranting Partner, Hoʻākea Source at the Pu’uhonua Society, Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi; Yanira Collado, Artist, 2024 WaveMaker Grantee; Rebecca Pauline Jampol, Co-Director at Warhol Foundation Regional Regranting Partner, Co-director at Project for Empty Space that powers the Newark Artist Accelerator in Newark, New Jersey; Claudia Mattos, Associate Curator of New Media Art at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach.