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Program/Grant: Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities

  • An image of a tangled mess of painted ropes around a rock

    Now Accepting Applications: 2024 Midwest Award For Artists With Disabilities

    May 6, 2024

    A $3,000 award supporting accessibility in the arts and celebrating the work of disabled Midwestern visual artists.

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  • A series of photos showing the progression of creating a pair of shoes from salvaged canvas.

    Andrea Sosa Fontaine

    Andrea Sosa Fontaine is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work...

  • A page of a Zine with a drawing of a deer and a picture of a dog. The title reads Freedom and Possession.

    Sarah Muehlbauer

    Sarah Muehlbauer is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

  • An abstract painting of a person laying sideways, their hands above their head on a collaged background of other bodies and forms.

    Maggie Laycock

    Maggie Laycock is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

  • A mural painted on the side of a building. Pastel colors and bold lines show stars, meteors, angels, sea life, and other abstract forms.

    Lauren Bonney

    Lauren Bonney is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

  • A sculpture of a person sitting on top of a bed surrounded by rose petals. They are divided into two pieces and missing a head, a stomach, and an arm. Their legs have braces.

    Larissa Danielle

    Larissa Danielle is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

  • Five paintings of smiling women hang on easels in a large room. Each woman has white roses in front of them.

    Bonnie Lee

    Bonnie Lee is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

  • A painting of Jesus and and a painting of a figure holding up their hand, surrounded by smoke and child-like scribbles. The words Like one about wayss are visible in the bottom lower corner.

    Matthew Bodett

    Matthew Bodett is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

  • An abstract painting with orange, yellow, and blue colors. Thin lines and blobs of bright color overlap.

    Mary Payton Zajicek

    Mary Payton Zajicek is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work...

  • A painting of a pile of colorful yarn-like material, woven in and around a colorful rock-like object.

    Madison Rubenstein

    Madison Rubenstein is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

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