Award Ceremony for Fifth Cohort of Interlace Grantees

Announcing the 2026

Interlace Project Grant Awardees

Interlace Grant Fund is proud to announce a new cohort of recipients of Project Grants for visual arts projects produced and presented in the Providence area. The grants, totaling $54,000, support new and experimental work by local artists who have visions for projects that might otherwise fall outside of traditional arts funding opportunities and who are committed to cultivating engaged communities around their work, via collaborations in process and/or presentation.

Awarded Projects & Artists 

Home Is Here: First Generation Latinos | Norlan Olivo

Neighbors | Willow Giannotti-Garlinghouse

Painting as Absorption | Heather McPherson

Remembered Rootings | Vic Xu, with Jeffrey Yoo Warren

Storefront for Works & Process | Persephone Allen,

with Jazzmen Lee Johnson

Tanabata Buoy | Marieka Possman & Enid Corcoran

The Survival Compromise | J.R. Uretsky

We Only Know the Ghosts | Megan & Murray McMillan

What We Leave Behind | Noah Emanuel Morrison

LEARN MORE ABOUT PROJECT GRANT AWARDEES

To learn more, please find project descriptions and artists' biographies here.

Selection Process

Funded projects are selected by a jury panel made up of local and national figures, including artists and curators with multi-faceted experience in the visual arts.

To learn more about the jury for this round of Project Grants, please find individual juror profiles below awardee profiles here.

Awards Ceremony | January 22, 5:30 - 7:30pm 

Please join Interlace Grant Fund for a celebratory reception and awards ceremony featuring short presentations by 2026 grantees.

Thursday, January 22

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Metcalf Auditorium at the RISD Museum

20 N. Main St. Providence, RI 

Find all the event details and RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/interlaceceremony2026