BOSTON, MA – September 16, 2024 — Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is thrilled to announce 16 new BCA Studio Residents this September. And just as thousands of others in the Boston area this month, they are busy moving in and orienting themselves to their new campus!
This fall’s incoming group of local artists works within and across mediums, varying from public art to painting to media arts. As part of the program’s fourth cohort, these artists will join an existing diverse community of 31 second- and third-year residents. Each of the incoming residents brings a practice of artmaking that centers innovative cultural expression, and intersections of social, gender, and racial justice.
For the first time in the history of the program, these 16 three-year residencies are fully subsidized by a generous $300,000 grant from Wagner Foundation, marking a significant first step in the broader $1.5m fundraising initiative to sustain and expand this vital artist-focused program at BCA.
The entering 16 artists, four of whom belong to a collective, are: Beatriz Whitehill, DOE, JB183, Mar, SOEMS, Emily Rose, Feda Eid, Funlola Coker, Heather Kapplow, Ifé Franklin, IMAGINE aka Sneha Shrestha, Maggie Wong, Mark A. Hernandez Motaghy, Marla L. McLeod, Ngoc-Tran Vu, and Yuko Okabe.