Art Works 2024 Recipients
Iris Brown
Individual Artist
Iris Brown is an artist, cook, community gardener and culture keeper working through horticulture and Puerto Rican traditions.
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cinéSPEAK
Organization
cinéSPEAK is a Philadelphia arthouse cinema and journal that uses film as a cultural strategy to celebrate and strengthen movements for collective liberation.
Jose Bustamante
Individual Artist
Jose Bustamante creates space and builds community for artists focused on street art.
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Ninth Planet
Collective
Ninth Planet is an artist collective that makes experimental dance-theater that centers people of color, women, queer and trans people in Philadelphia.
Denice Frohman
Individual Artist
Denice Frohman is a poet and performer whose work explores language, lineage, queerness and the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico.
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Photography Without Borders
Organization
Photography Without Borders teaches young artists to tell their stories through photography to a wider audience.
Pedro Ospina
Individual Artist
Pedro Ospina is a socially engaged artist and community gardener, working between found art, public space, and food.
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South Asian American Digital Archives
Organization
South Asian American Digital Archives (SAADA) collaborates with artists to create new works inspired by South Asian American history and stories.
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Omar Tate
Individual Artist
Omar Tate is a food artist who describes food as the connective tissue between his work with poetry, painting, and structural forms like ceramics and sculpture.
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SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Art-Reach
Organization
Art-Reach is a multidisciplinary arts service organization that advances accessibility for people with disabilities across every genre of the arts in Greater Philadelphia.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Shaily Dadiala
Individual Artist
Shaily Dadiala is a choreographer, Dance, Educator and Cultural Producer working in Bharatanatyam, an ancient dance form that originated in Southern India
Selection Committee
Our selection committee includes: Cesali Morales (Business and Development Director, Norris Square Neighborhood Project), Eric Pryor (President and CEO, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts), Hironaka & Suib, (Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, Public Works 2024 Artists in Residence), Valerie Gay ( Executive Director, Creative Philadelphia, City of Philadelphia), Casey O’Donnel (CEO, Impact Services), Imani Roach (Curatorial Director, Center for African and African Diasporic Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art), Pedro Ramos (President and CEO, Philadelphia Foundation), Adjoa Jones de Almeida (Executive Director, Forman Arts Initiative) and Jennifer Rice (Founder, Forman Arts Initiative).
