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“While they work across various approaches and mediums, this year’s fellows share a commitment to building a more equitable arts field and uphold creativity as a powerful tool for social justice.”

Selected artists will each receive $5,000 upon completion.

“The real impetus for me is something I just can’t out of my head, and I just keep thinking: I need to make this; I have to make this.”

The 2021 residents will each receive a $500 grant in lieu of studio space, as well as access to MASS' website and social media platforms.

"Sound in Sculpture" 2021 features music from university students Geli Li, Sophie Mathieu, Abhi Rao, Thomas A. Rodriguez, and Rita Yung.

Weiner has been in a leadership position with Chinati for more than three decades, and originally accompanied Chinati's founder, the late Donald Judd, to Marfa as the artist's assistant.

"I don’t know if this NFT thing is a craze or if it’s here to stay, but we want to ride the wave while we can.”

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on Texas barns in danger, Italian drawings in Space City, and an artist who has her finger on the pulse of human awfulness.

“What gets me going creatively is the community that I live in. It's really just absorbing everything in the community, and then how I replicate that in the studio practice."

Seven San Antonio-based artists will participate, providing “creative interpretations of the digital and natural world around them.”

“I wonder if artists are being commissioned to beautify cities in a way that ignores the time that we live in.”

"Attention to the relationships between humans and the nonhuman environment defines the practice of Santa Fe-based artist Will Wilson (Diné/Navajo)."

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on the reopening of Dallas Contemporary, a show by some New York legends in the Panhandle, and one artist's way of making the frame a part of the art. 

"Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again" surveys approximately 30 years of the artist’s video works and photography, investigating her passionate engagement with ancient and recent Iranian history.

"Oak Cliff really pushed me into understanding that this is my neighborhood, this is me, these are the things I'm seeing — these things are worthy of being shown. That neighborhood as transformed me." 

Artpace re-opened for public visits earlier in March, and currently hosts groups five days a week.

"It's been a tough start to the new year. So, let's take a moment to gather and celebrate the blessings of art and some time with good friends."

The virtual exhibition application is open to all current or graduating high school students within the state of Texas.

SAY Sí also offered virtual resources to families, suggesting creative ways to use the supplies on its website.

"Canchola debuts a series of work that examines the roles society casts on each other so that they are simply a 'type of character.'"