Awarding Grants to Black Creators Inspiring Change on Instagram - Meta

We’re awarding a full of $650,000 to 10 Black artists, designers and tiny businesses successful the US arsenic portion of the #BlackVisionaries program.

Presented successful concern with the Brooklyn Museum, the 10 grants see 5 $100,000 Visionary Small Business grants and 5 $30,000 Emerging Visionary grants, awarded with the enactment of Meta Open Arts.

The enactment of the assistance recipients spans disciplines, but a committedness to assemblage unites them. They articulation the 2021 Black Visionaries successful creating civilization and change.

Visionary Small Business assistance recipients ($100,000 each)

• Black Fashion Fair
• The Black School: Design Studio
• Dark Matter U
• Strada
• Pacific

Emerging Visionary assistance recipients ($30,000 each)

• Christopher Joshua Benton
• Anaïs Duplan
• Albert Hicks IV
• Jaline McPherson
• Cornelius Tulloch

Grant recipients were selected from astir 2,000 applications by a committee of salient Black artists and designers, led by Creative Chair Antwaun Sargent, a curator and writer. With the enactment of Mobile Makers, a nonprofit enactment that offers younker plan and skill-building workshops, each recipient volition besides beryllium connected with a assemblage of mentors.

“Community builds community, and that’s the intentionality down what we’re trying to found here. It is the fiscal support, mentorship, connections and the accent connected storytelling that, combined, are meant to supply a model for the boundless improvement of these recipients.” — Antwaun Sargent, writer, curator and #BlackVisionaries originative chair

Learn much astir the 2022 Black Visionaries assistance recipients.