Jenna Hamed
APP '18 Jenna Hamed received a NYFA City Artist Corps Grant for 2021, gaining the opportunity to push the possibilities of cultural production.
City Artist Corps Grants is part of City Artist Corps, a new $25 million recovery initiative designed to help artists who were both hard hit by the pandemic and who may have been left out of other local and federal funding opportunities. City Artist Corps Grants are intended to support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. The program distributed one-time $5,000 grants to over 3,000 artists to help sustain their practice and engage the public across New York City’s five boroughs beginning in July 2021.
Hamed has also received a Queens Art Council New Work Grant. The New Work Grant supports emerging Queens-based individual artists, collaborations between artists, and unincorporated artist collectives of all artistic disciplines in their creation and public sharing of “new work” — work that has not been produced or work-in-progress that has not been presented to a public audience before. New Work Grants offer project-based financial support and are awarded at $3,000.
Hamed used the NYFA City Artist Corps grant to organize a 12 hour public performance art marathon with 50 performers, alongside other collectives. Hamed used the Queens Art Council New Work Grant to support a portrait project.
Jenna writes, “Much of my work is focused on and inspired by the defiance of tradition, the texture of cultural dissonance, and experimentation with unconventional artistic mediums.” Be sure to check out Jenna’s poems & fotos mail subscription project where subscribers receive one film photo and/or an original typewritten poem mailed out each month. Find out more here.