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Announcing the 2024 Disability Futures Fellows!

The third cycle of the initiative honors 20 disabled creative practitioners with unrestricted $50,000 grants.

Meet the 2024 Disability Futures Fellows
Saleem, a Black man with a partially paralyzed face, an ever-widening smile, and a handlebar mustache, faces the camera. He wears clear-framed glasses, a plastic moisture chamber over his right eye, and a right-sided cochlear implant and sits comfortably hunched over a table with arms loosely folded. He wears a white T-shirt with “Blk joy” printed inside a red square and a pink and yellow floral-print bandana around his neck. Two pamphlet-style books created in first and second grade are on the table.
Gaelynn, a small white woman seated in an electric wheelchair, holds her violin and smiles. She has medium-length brown hair held back with a red flower clip and wears a white silky dress with large black beads sewn along the neck.
Day, an Arab-American woman in a suede jacket with brown skin and dark hair, sits with her eyes closed. In front of her, a yellow lab guide dog looks up and licks under her chin.
Natasha, a dark-skinned Black woman with Afro curly hair, wears an ivory and pink polka dot blouse and smiles.
Elliott has short brown curly hair with shaved sides, wears round tortoiseshell glasses, and winks at the camera. He wears a denim button-up shirt underneath a grey sweatshirt and smiles closed mouthed while resting his chin on his hand. Behind him are green bushes, ivy, and a standing heat lamp.

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  • A black-and-white photograph of two performers captured mid-motion in a dynamic pose. The performer in the front's pose is a graceful and slow descent towards us as they rest on bended knee, torso torqued, and right arm outstretched. The second figure stands close with their hand on their partner's neck as they stretch their body in the opposite direction away from us.
  • A black-and-white photograph of small glass cubes organized in clear acrylic containers. The small cubes have subtle differences by which they are organized; ranging from completely clear to clear with the addition of black lines.
  • A group of four kids are crouched down on the pavement as they play with neon yellow and green acrylic sheets to create custom shapes.
  • A person of Asian descent with a short mohawk hairstyle, wearing a leather jacket and a red lanyard around their neck with a festival badge attached, speaking into a microphone in front of text projected onto a film screen in the background

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