2024 Grant Recipients
Locust Projects is excited to reveal its 2024 WaveMaker Grant awardees! Selected through an open call process by a team of local and national artists and arts professionals, elleven visionary artists and artist collectives will receive up to $6,000 each to create innovative work that will be shared with the public across Miami in non-traditional venues and platforms.
The 2024 WaveMakers are: New Work / Projects: Iman Clark, Amy Gelb, Jillian Mayer, and Nadia Wolff; Long-Haul Projects: Dejha Carrington, Yanira Collado, Margo Hannah, Suanay Hernandez, and Lee Pivnik; Research & Development + Implementation: Akia Dorsainvil and Christina Pettersson.
The 2024 WaveMaker selection panel included: Katerina Llanes, creative producer/curator who organized the recent #MakingMiami projects; Karen McKinnon, former WaveMaker grantee (2023); Selene Preciado, Curator and Director of Programs, LACE, Warhol Foundation Regional Regranting partner in L.A.; and Njeri Rutherford, Program Manager, CultureSource, Warhol Foundation Regional Regranting partner in Detroit.
Orishas of Miami: Namesake Origins and Finding Our Offerings
Orishas of Miami: Finding Our Offerings is a project that seeks to find the true meaning of our cities’ names on a spiritual level. As Queer folks, we choose our names and as people of color, we have often had to leave our rightful names behind. In that same vein, we have had to live covertly and suppress our ancestral spiritualities. In this project, we will be excavating the characteristics of Opa Locka, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Miami Beach. The city has recognized the connection between the communities’ spiritual livelihood and its advancement.