Upcoming Application Deadlines
  • Fellowships in the Arts - Visual:  Tuesday, 2/11/2025
Woman with colorful wig

Past Recipients: Arts Fellowships

Past Recipients of Independence Foundation Fellowships in both the Performing and Visual Arts are listed below by year.  An asterisk beside an artist's name denotes having previously received a fellowship.

Fellowship in the Arts

Performing Arts

  • Melissa Dunphy, Music
  • Dane Eissler, Theatre/Puppetry
  • Eliana Fabiyi, Theatre/Puppetry
  • Makoto Hirano*, Playwriting
  • Whitney Hunter, Dance
  • Jackie Soro, Music/Theatre
  • R. Eric Thomas, Playwriting

Visual Arts

  • Shasta Bady, Photography
  • Megan Biddle, Sculpture
  • Rebecca Gilbert*, Printmaking/Works on Paper
  • Minah Kim, Sculpture
  • Ziui Chen Vance,  Painting/New Media
  • Wilmer Wilson IV,  Interdisciplinary

Performing Arts

  • POSTPONED

Visual Arts

  • POSTPONED

Performing Arts

  • POSTPONED

Visual Arts

  • POSTPONED

Performing Arts

  • POSTPONED

Visual Arts

  • POSTPONED

Performing Arts

  • Emily Bate
  • Emmanuelle Delpech*
  • Shavon Norris
  • Matteo Scammell
  • Anna Weesner
  • Rebecca Wright

Visual Arts

  • POSTPONED

Performing Arts

  • Christopher Colucci*
  • Sarah Gliko
  • Jessica Johnson
  • Colin McIlvaine
  • James Primosch*
  • Alexandra Tatarsky

Visual Arts

  • Maria Dumlao
  • Wit Lopez
  • Gabriel Martinez
  • Kathryn Smith Pyle
  • Ron Tarver*
  • Shira Walinsky

Performing Arts

  • Kevin Glaccum
  • Jennifer Kidwell
  • Michael Kiley*
  • Whit MacLauglin
  • Bi Jean Ngo
  • Magdalene San Milan
  • Kile Smith

Visual Arts

  • Patrick Connors
  • Colette Fu*
  • Rebecca Gilbert
  • Teresa Jaynes*
  • Ana Palma

Performing Arts

  • Andrea Clearfield
  • Justin Jain
  • Emilie Krause
  • Melissa Krodman
  • Jumatatu Poe
  • Samantha Tower

Visual Arts

  • Francine Affourtit
  • Jesse Krimes
  • Andrea Krupp
  • Yinka Orafidiya
  • Jason Starin
  • Daniel Teran

Performing Arts

  • Melanie Cotton
  • Jacqueline Goldfinger
  • Jennifer Higdon
  • Kevin Meehan
  • Hillary Rea
  • Scott Sheppard
  • Lindsay Smiling
  • Dito van Reigersberg

Visual Arts

  • Joan Wadleigh Curran*
  • Susan Hagen*
  • Claudia Mastrobuono
  • Michelle Oosterbaan
  • Amy Shindo
  • Cesar Viveros*

Performing Arts

  • Alex Bechtel
  • Jeffrey Coon
  • Anthony Lawton *
  • David Ludwig *
  • Gabrielle Revlock
  • Maria Shaplin
  • Annie Wilson

Visual Arts

  • Victoria Burge
  • Rebecca Chappell
  • Alexis Granwell
  • Eurhi Jones
  • Roberta Massuch

Performing Arts

  • Megan Bridge
  • Benjamin Camp
  • Shinjoo Cho
  • Janis Dardaris
  • Liz Filios
  • Michael Hollinger *
  • Robert Kaplowitz

Visual Arts

  • Mariel Capanna
  • Shelby Donnelly
  • Talia Greene
  • Tony Heriza
  • Lauren Mabry
  • Marta Sanchez

Performing Arts

  • Christopher Colucci
  • John Jarboe
  • Kun-Yang Lin
  • Alex Keiper
  • Sebastienne Mundheim
  • Daniel Perelstein
  • Kate Watson-Wallace *
  • Maurice Wright

Visual Arts

  • Marianne Bernstein
  • Diane Burko
  • Michael Fujita
  • Kay Healy
  • Teresa Jaynes
  • Shelley Spector

Performing Arts

  • Meg Foley
  • Bethany Formica
  • Michael Kiley
  • Matthew Levy
  • Mark Lord
  • Steve Pacek
  • Alex Torra
  • Rebecca Wright

Visual Arts

  • James Abbott
  • Marilyn Holsing
  • Tim Portlock
  • Alison Stigora

Performing Arts

  • Quinn Bauriedel
  • James Ijames
  • Megan Mazarick
  • Rosemarie McKelvey
  • James Sugg *
  • Thomas Whitman

Visual Arts

  • Noah Addis
  • Hiroe Harazano
  • James Johnson
  • Diane Pieri *
  • Paul Santoleri *
  • Anula Shetty *

Performing Arts

  • Nicole Cousineau *
  • Brett Keyser
  • Mary McCool
  • Thaddeus Phillips *
  • Andrew Simonet
  • David Simpson
  • Geoffrey Sobelle *
  • Leah Stein
  • Christina Zani

Visual Arts

  • Aaron Birk
  • Amze Emmons
  • Colette Fu
  • Jeanne Jaffe
  • Ryan Wilson Kelly
  • Keiko Miyamori
  • Nadine Patterson
  • Shane Stratton

Performing Arts

  • Kyle Bartlett
  • Myra Bazell *
  • Marianela Boan
  • Jennifer Childs *
  • Jorge Cousineau *
  • Charlotte Ford
  • Amanda Miller
  • Lane Savadove
  • David Yang

Visual Arts

  • Joan Wadleigh Curran
  • Caroline Lathan-Stiefel
  • Robert Roesch
  • Rebecca Rutstein
  • John Williams

Performing Arts

  • John Blake
  • Nichole Canuso *
  • Troy Herion
  • Elbia Hevia y Vaca
  • Makoto Hirano
  • Lisa Kraus
  • Adrienne Mackey
  • Beth Nixon
  • Peter Pryor *

Visual Arts

  • Ava Blitz
  • Heather Mae Erickson
  • Susan Hagen *
  • Jane Irish
  • Homer Jackson
  • Katie Murken
  • Eliseo Art Silva

Performing Arts

  • Charles O. Anderson
  • Tony Braithwaite
  • Ben Dibble
  • Sara Felder
  • Germaine Ingram
  • Tom McCarthy
  • William Moriarty
  • Alexander Shaw
  • Kate Watson-Wallace

Visual Arts

  • Justyna Badach
  • Emily Brown
  • Myung Jin Choi
  • Cesar Viveros Herrera*
  • Caitlin Emma Perkins
  • Amy Stevens
  • Julia Stratton *
  • Ron Tarver

Performing Arts

  • Aaron Cromie *
  • Megan Bridge
  • Devyn Emory
  • Lee Ann Etzold
  • Karen Getz
  • John B. Hedges
  • Michael Nathaniel Hersch
  • Jeb Kreager
  • Jeannine Osayande

Visual Arts

  • Katie Baldwin
  • Susan Beiner
  • Cindy Burstein
  • Robert Chaney
  • Lisa Murch
  • Jeffrey Stockbridge

Performing Arts

  • David Brick
  • Tyrone Brown
  • Andrea Clearfield
  • Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey
  • Millie Hiibel
  • John Stephen Hoey
  • Tania Isaac
  • James Primosch
  • Dan Rothenberg
  • Tobin Rothlein

Visual Arts

  • Catherine Abercrombie
  • Ruth Barkley
  • Rita Bernstein
  • Jennifer Blazina
  • Steven Donegan
  • Harvey Finkle
  • Daniel Heyman
  • Maria Teresa Rodriguez
  • Stuart Shils
  • Nami Yamamoto
  • Julie York

Performing Arts

  • Jay Ansill
  • Myra Bazell
  • Kormassa Bobo
  • Jorge Cousineau
  • Bradley R. Helm
  • Rick Henderson
  • Anthony Lawton
  • Martha McDonald
  • Ju-Yeon Ryu
  • Catharine Slusar

Visual Arts

  • Yekini Atanda
  • Jerry L. Bennett
  • Joan Wadleigh Curran
  • David Guinn
  • Ann Northrup
  • Tony Rocco
  • Peter Rose
  • Bill Scott
  • Shelley Spector
  • Justin Witte

Performing Arts

  • Morgan Fitzpatrick Andrews
  • Nicole Cousineau
  • Christine Cox
  • Madi DiStefano
  • Kingambo Gilonda
  • Grace Gonglewski
  • Geoffrey Sobelle
  • James Sugg
  • Dorothy Wilkie
  • Steven Wright
  • Raphael Xavier

Visual Arts

  • Alyse Bernstein
  • James Clark
  • Mei-ling Hom
  • Sarah McEneaney
  • Nancy Bea Miller
  • Erica Pennella
  • Csilla Sadloch
  • Anula Shetty

Performing Arts

  • Greg Giovanni
  • Scott Greer
  • Nicolas Kendall
  • Raelle Myrick-Hodges
  • Thaddeus Phillips
  • Alba Potes
  • Meredith Rainey
  • Mark O’Maley
  • Tom Reing
  • Greg Wood
  • Marian X

Visual Arts

  • Susan Fenton
  • Cesar E. Viveros Herrera
  • Raquel Montilla Higgins
  • Joseph Hu
  • Christina Johnson
  • Heeseung Lee
  • Todd Noe
  • Michael O’Reilly
  • Claire Owen
  • Paul Santoleri
  • Judith Taylor

Performing Arts

  • Jennifer Alimonti
  • Jesse Bernstein
  • Nichole Canuso
  • Deborah Block
  • Jennifer Childs
  • Katherine Livingston
  • Magda Martinez
  • Matthew Neenan
  • Peter Pryor
  • Anna Rubio
  • Gary San Angel
  • Wayne St. David

Visual Arts

  • Gianni Benvenuti
  • Sister Helen David Brancato
  • Brian David Dennis
  • Lynn Blackwell Denton
  • Rain Harris
  • Cavin Jones
  • Lucartha Kohler
  • William Scott Noel
  • Judith Barbour Osbourne
  • Diane Pieri
  • Pang Xiong Siriatasuk Sikoun
  • Julia Stratton
  • Jody Sweitzer
  • Rebekah Wostrel

Performing Arts

  • David Bardeen
  • Aaron Cromie
  • Michael Hollinger
  • Suli Holum
  • Roko Kawai
  • David Ludwig
  • John Lumia
  • Larry Grant Malvern
  • Luis Prado
  • Jeanne Ruddy
  • Lenny Seidman
  • Elio Villafranca
  • Adam Wernick

Visual Arts

  • Shannon Bowser
  • Jeff Dion
  • James Dupree
  • Susan Hagen
  • Glenn Holsten
  • Patricia Ingersoll
  • Teresa Jaynes
  • Leroy Johnson
  • Qimin Liu
  • John Horace Stone
  • Timi Sullivan
  • Steven Tucker

Have Questions?

For additional questions about the Fellowships, please contact us.