Round 2 Grantees
Kinetic Grantee
Glass Landscapes and Polaroid Emulsion Lift Workshop
Alexa Kanarowski
Kinetic Grantee
Into Dust
Tallulah Gordon
Into Dust is a short film love story about two young Buffalo Natives who, along with the rest of their class, learn that the world is ending in less than 24 hours. Feeling powerless, they decide to throw one last big party where things take a dark turn.
Kinetic Grantee
Dreams Travel Wondrous Wires
Christopher Michael + Saelyx Finna
Kinetic Grantee
Useful Symbiont
Claudia Mancuso D'Auria
Kinetic Grantee
Contaminated Culture
aidelen montoya
Through historical Eurocentric and misogynistic views, there has been a separation of craft and art. This show will consist entirely of craft materials focusing on Filipino culture being highlighted by technological aid; the same inventions used to suppress many indigenous cultures and diminish traditional knowledge transfer.
Potential Grantee
Expanding the WNY Print Community
MIRABO PRESS (Partners Rachel Shelton, Mizin Shin, and Bob Fleming)
Mirabo will establish the Growing the Western New York Print Community Program Program. It will offer free residencies to 3 to 4 artists for one week. A Mirabo printer will guide each resident through their residency. Each artist will participate in a group show in the Mirabo gallery.
Kinetic Grantee
Buffalo ReFuse: Video Theater
Michael Chernoff
ReFuse is a multi-channel screening of films that document the urban landscape of Buffalo NY, made by local filmmakers, and constructed from salvaged building materials and old CRT video monitors. The work will be publicly exhibited at ReUse Action on Buffalo’s East Side neighborhood, and includes artist talks and workshops.'
Kinetic Grantee
Tangled Gravities
Shawn Chiki
Kinetic Grantee
Hyper(in)Visible
Soda Haley
"To be hyper(in)visible means receiving both excessive attention and being overlooked, sometimes simultaneously." - Jeannine A. Gailey. Hyper(in)visible will be an exhibition, featuring oil paintings and sculpture that explores fatness through a personal fat queer lens, aiming to provoke dialogue and challenge societal prejudice against the fat body.
Kinetic Grantee
Frontera de carácter (Frontier of Character)
Misael Hernandez
Potential Grantee
Gatheringspace
Joel Brenden & Avye Alexandres
Kinetic Grantee
Bodega 333
Alison Cortes
A magic market focused on childlike imagination, community, and creating safe spaces. A local gallery is transformed into a playful storefront, creating an immersive exhibition space for unique and free public programming. Bodega 333 is a dreamlike space where all are invited to wander and wonder.
Kinetic Grantee
Kinetic Grantee
Vision Of Vocation: Finding Rest
Joel Mulindwa
In Vision of Vocation: Finding Rest, Joel explores themes of labor, purpose, value and overlooked moments of stillness within the lives of workers. I plan to create frames for the drawings I will show as an intentional finishing touch that will supplement the subjects.
Gold Leaf Workshop 2025
James “Yames” Moffitt
The goal of this project is to break down financial barriers associated with gold leaf and make it accessible through subsidized workshops. I will also be funding my own education into brilliant cut glass with a course at the Corning Museum of Glass. Check out www.theyames.com for updates and more!
Kinetic Grantee
phase </> un-phased
Jason Beaudreau
An immersive interdisciplinary installation exploring themes of connection and dis-connection through cymatic (sound made visible) projections juxtaposed over patterns and networks found in nature in the greater Niagara Falls region.
Kinetic Grantee
Excursion to View the Moon
Julia Dzwonkoski
I’ll produce an artist book in conversation with the work of Helen Adam (1909-1993), made while visiting her archives at the SUNY Buffalo Poetry and Rare Book Collection.
Kinetic Grantee
Books Exhibition Duo
Nick Mass
Funding will support two group exhibitions showcasing artists' books, focused on personal sketchbooks and photo books made of Polaroid photos. The exhibitions will allow visitors to touch and flip through books, providing inspiration and enabling comparisons between artists techniques.
Kinetic Grantee
The Sense of Wonder
Christine Marie
Analog versus digital. Nature versus destruction. The battle unfolds on a giant cube, where analog devices casting natural landscapes compete with intermittent AI-powered digital projections of disaster. The convergence and clash of these visuals invite reflection on the fragility of our environment and the profound consequences of unchecked technological advancement.
Kinetic Grantee
716 & Art
Khalim Evans & Robert Rivera
716 & Art is an event showcasing the vibrant film-art scene in Buffalo. Hosted in the Ujima Theatre, this event will gather seven talented Buffalo-based directors to showcase their short films, followed by a brief Q&A session.
Potential Grantee
Prairie
Jillian Solotes
Kinetic Grantee
Sunshine Recorder
Nicholas Christakis
Sunshine Recorder is an arts and culture zine showcasing Buffalo's unique creatives through studio visits, gonzo journalism at events, and any exciting happenings in 2025. Featuring musicians, illustrators, painters, poets, photographers, and vigilantes, it captures the endless artistic expressions that define the city's dynamic cultural landscape.
Kinetic Grantee
Pick-A-Print Art Vending Machine
Chris Fritton
Pick-A-Print vending machines will host small-scale pieces of art (handmade prints, limited editions, zines, found objects, and more) from local Buffalo artists, in a fun, accessible, low-cost format. It intends to host work from over 40 different artists in its first year, and expand from there.
Round 2 Jury
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Njeri Rutherford
Njeri Rutherford is an arts administrator, entrepreneur, and dance artist from Detroit, MI. After graduating from Johnson C. Smith University with a B.A. in Communication Arts and Dance, Njeri moved to New York City where she worked for many arts organizations including Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research, and Dance/NYC among others. She danced professionally for Davalois Fearon Dance where she ultimately served as both Development Manager and dance artist. In April 2020 at the height of the global pandemic Njeri founded The Barre, an artist services company that caters to the administrative and performative needs of BIPOC artists. In April 2023 Njeri graduated from the University of Michigan’s School of Music Theatre & Dance with her Masters in Dance and certificates in World Performance Studies and Arts Entrepreneurship and Leadership. She is the program manager over events and grantmaking at CultureSource where she continues in her mission of serving artists in tangible ways.
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Jenine Marsh
Jenine Marsh (b. 1984, Calgary AB, works in Toronto ON) is an artist who uses sculpture and installation to explore illicit and intimate responses to the shared conditions of end-stage capitalism. Marsh’s work has been exhibited at Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Prairie, Chicago (2024); Ashley, Berlin (2024); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2023); Joe Project, Montreal (2023), Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023); Union Pacific, London (2023); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Essex Flowers, New York (2020); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), Franz Kaka, Toronto (2019); and Lulu, Mexico City (2015). Marsh lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
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Ryan Arthurs
Ryan Arthurs is a visual artist and the founder of Rivalry Projects, a commercial art gallery and arts production space located in Buffalo, NY. Founded in 2021, Rivalry exhibits emerging, mid-career, and underrepresented artists working in all media, with an emphasis on unique approaches to materiality, non-traditional photo practices, and queer voices.
He received his M.F.A. in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds a B.F.A. in Studio Art from Carleton College. His work has been exhibited at The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (Buffalo, NY), Radial Survey, Vol. II at Silver Eye Center for Photography (Pittsburgh, PA), The National: Best Contemporary Photography at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana. His solo exhibitions credits include Carleton College (Northfield, MN) and Room 68 (Provincetown, MA). His work was selected by The Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Top 100 in 2018. In 2017 he was shortlisted for the Oseroff Memorial Purchase Prize administered by CEPA Gallery, and in 2015 was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Award. He has participated in residencies at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado and The Bothy Project, Isle of Eigg in Scotland. Ryan was a visiting professor at Carleton College, and was a photography teaching assistant at Harvard University.