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We believe that new ideas come from sparks of inspiration and aim to provide just that, access to mighty bursts of financial support so that you can focus on making your important and innovative work.
Innovate Grant was created out of the frustration of applying to grants with time-consuming requirements. These lengthy applications took valuable time and energy away from making new work. Countless hours were always sacrificed in either writing artist statements, crafting project proposals and getting letters of recommendation.
We believe that time is one of the most valuable components to fostering creativity and innovation. Our aim is to provide the time you need to be fully immersed in your ideas and in creating your work.
Keeping the grant process simple enables us to continue to support you on your important journey of creation, inspiration, and innovation.”
2025
Personal
2025
Personal
2025
Feature
2025
Feature
This time around we’ll be hearing from artist and baker Lexie Smith, more widely known as the creative mastermind behind Bread on Earth, as well as graphic designer and illustrator Chantal Jahchan who will be taking us through how she tackles one of her intricate editorial commissions. Daniela Spector will also be giving us an insight into her archival approach to photography, and New York’s one and only New York Nico will be sitting down with our US editor-at-large Elizabeth Goodspeed to talk about his career so far, following the release of his debut book.”
2025
Personal
Hair/Stylist Assist: Azmaree Curtis
Make Up Artist: Leanna McAlpin
2025
Publication
The book aims to illuminate and critique the government’s surveillance of people, its own citizens, advocating for equality and peace by appropriating pages directly from the file and recontextualizing them through the lens of family history. The left-hand pages feature the FBI’s portrait of my grandmother, and the right-hand pages feature images of my grandmother from our family archive. The book was designed to evoke a government file. Each spread is split in half, forcing the reader to fully engage the book with both hands.
This project was made possible by the 2024 Eureka! & Penumbra Foundation Risograph Residency. Each copy was printed and bound by the artist.
Published 2025
Edition Size 100
Printing Risograph
Color Black Ink, Red Ink
Binding Chicago Screws
Paper Stock 80lb Mohawk Eggshell
Cover Stock 130lb Colorplan Bright Red
Size 7.375in x 10.25in x 0.5in
Pages 63
Design: Hemza Hajyousif
Foreword: Daniel Spector
2025
Feature
Inspired by the legacy of Frank Espada, Hiram Maristany, Sophie Rivera, Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Roger Cabán, Felipe Dante, and many more, CENTRO had the goal of having a visual record that communicated the last five years of the Puerto Rican diasporic experience. Through an open call, the work of 33 photographers was selected for this first iteration of On Both Sides of the Lens: Documenting the Puerto Rican Diaspora.
2024