CAC – INDIVIDUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS – Estabilshed Artist Fellows
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: Region 3 – The Bay Area – Administered by Kala Art Institute
Presented in partnership with the California Arts Council, celebrating 50 years of investing in California’s artists.
Established Artist Fellows ($10,000)
Latanya d. Tigner – Alameda County, Dance
African dance traditions survive and evolve within social dance forms. As founder/director of Dancing Cy(i)phers, Latanya d. Tigner creates spaces where scholars, practitioners, and communities connect through the coded languages of African-rooted movement.
Packard Jennings – Alameda County, Interdisciplinary Work
Packard Jennings creates public sculptures, social practice, and interventions that expose and contest the invisible mechanisms of power and ecological harm, in service of social and environmental justice, working with communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Cece Carpio – Alameda County, Visual Arts
Cece Carpio is a visual artist and cultural producer whose community-centered practice uses public art to honor Indigenous and immigrant histories, cultivate collective liberation, and inspire social change- creating spaces where communities imagine and build more just futures.
Cathy Lu – Contra Costa County, Visual Arts
Cathy Lu’s ceramic sculptures and installations use Chinese mythology and diasporic experiences to explore how immigration, assimilation, and cultural hybridity shape American identity and possibilities for the future.
Sean Dorsey – San Francisco County, Dance
Sean Dorsey is a transgender, queer, disabled choreographer, dancer, educator, activist, and social practice artist who works with his trans and queer communities. photo credit: Lydia Daniller
Renée Moncada-Mcelroy – Alameda County, Media Arts
Renee Moncada-Mcelroy is a filmmaker, director, and archivist whose work documents the lives, histories, and triumphs of Black, Latino, and Asian communities through independent film, documentary, and community-rooted media.
Leslie Tai – Sonoma County, Media Arts
Using deep access to American and Chinese cultures, Leslie Tai creates works of cinematic nonfiction that illuminate the fantasies, contradictions, and unintended consequences of the American Dream.
Cheryl Derricotte – San Francisco County, Visual Arts
Cheryl Derricotte is a visual artist who engages the general public, (primarily folks interested in Black and American History), through museum, gallery and public art installations. photo credit: JeffreyFoote
Diana Diroy – San Mateo County, Media Arts
Diana Diroy is a documentary filmmaker, editor, cinematographer and educator whose work focuses on women-centered narratives, connections to land, and themes of identity and belonging through the lens of being a daughter of Filipino immigrants.
Kiazi Malonga – Alameda County, Traditional and Indigenous Practices
Kiazi Malonga is a 2nd-generation Congolese-American master drummer, composer, and culture bearer based in Oakland. Rooted in the tradition of the Ngoma drum, his work bridges Kongolese musical heritage with community healing, fatherhood, social justice, and cross-cultural collaboration.