The Luminary Announces Recipients of 2023 Futures Fund

The Luminary is Pleased to Announce the 2023 Futures Fund Grantees

6.15.2023

After a successful open call and thorough review process with judges Misa Jeffereis, Brian Lathan, and John Riepenhoff, we are thrilled to announce the fifth cohort of Futures Fund grantees. Awarded projects were unveiled last Saturday at our annual Summer Social. 

We congratulate the 10 awarded projects and the humans behind them:

StL Art + Labor Peoples Campaign by Miriam Ruiz and Colin McLaughlin

JPA Public Programming by Misato Pang and Jacob Janes

The Midwest Art Quarterly by Sam Jennings and Troy Sherman

Cementland Archive by Daniil Gerasimov and Emily Wunsch

StL Framing: Framing Fundamentals by Jessie Donovan and Nicholas (Obie) Oberfrank

Duplicator Magazine by Sophia Malone and Daniel Madrigal

Mosaic Pothole Project by Lu Ray Waldemer and Paige Sinclair

Wildfruit Projects by Kentaro Kumanomido and Nathaniel Lucena

Bunkers at the National Building Arts Center by Sage Dawson, Allison Lacher, and Bruce Burton

MO Hoes in StL by Grace Smith and Rachel Hurtado

Futures Fund is a regranting initiative organized by The Luminary and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in order to support innovative, experimental and forward-focused artistic projects throughout the St. Louis region. The fund was established in 2019 to provide essential support to creative projects that exemplify the unique possibilities of St. Louis, deeply engage its past, present, and possible futures, and model new ways of working within our region. The fund exists as one of the few opportunities for direct project support for artists in St. Louis. This year, a total of $60,000 in grants was awarded, with individual grants ranging between $2,500 and $8,000.