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Current Grantees

Fall 2020 Cultivate Grantees

Santa Cruz Art League
Gabriela Bravo
Carla Brennan
Sam Clarkson
Juan Carlos Diaz
Timothy Duncan
Jonathan Erickson
Jahandar Hamidieh
Juan Jose Jimenez Cruz
Anouk Johanna
Christopher Jones
Amy Katz
Gemma Locatelli
Elie Mabanza
Madeline Thompson
Lorena Mansilla
Priscilla Martinez
Jon Payne
Elizabeth Payne
Devi Pride
Biagio Scarpello
Beth Shields
Patrick Stefaniak
Luca Susti
Mary Tartaro
Lynne Todaro
Amy West
Oliver Whitcroft
Jane Wrankle
Hedilberto Xuana Fabian
Arte del Corazon – Monthly Art Markets in Watsonville
Cheza Nami Foundation – A free, virtual, socially-distanced showcase of African and Brazilian performances for the Santa Cruz Community, promoting healing and connection through the traditional arts
Coastal Watershed Council (lead artist Irene Juárez O’Connell) – San Lorenzo River Storm Drain Mural at Poet’s Park in the Beach Flats Neighborhood in Santa Cruz City
Esperanza Community Farms (lead artist Monica Galvan) – Family-based take-home art kits based on culturally preferred vegetables for Community Farm Latinx families
FashionTeens Santa Cruz – A countywide, collaborative effort open to all middle and high school students, bringing them together in socially and environmentally conscious art endeavors
Japanese Cultural Fair
MoveSpeakSpin – The Daughters of Hypatia: a Mathematical Herstory, a dance concert celebrating the lives, struggles, and work of women mathematicians throughout history
Shared Adventures (lead artist Anastasia Torres-Gil) – Mural at LEO’s Haven park
The Puppetry Institute – Upgrading and marketing new online/streaming art, theater, and puppetry arts classes
Vivien Bassouamina – Tenth Annual African diaspora dance and drum conference
Ome Garcia – Free painting classes for low-income families in Watsonville
Yolande Harris – Children of the Ocean: whale stress, sound, and the pandemic in the Monterey Bay
Andrew Hawes – A portrait series with interviews of people who experienced loss during the CZU fires
Madison McGain – A site-specific, performance-art piece for the public that offers the community an artistic vessel to process and reflect on impermanence and mortality through a collective sensory experience, rather than through individual means
Juan Morales-Rocha – VR Game Development, specifically a virtual reality rap game called Supersonic Rhyme Chamber!
Adon Newman – Traveler: A wearable interactive art experience that transports the participant’s consciousness outside of their body
Jaime Sanchez – Completion of dining area mural at Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes
Graciela Vega Cendejas – Festival de Ballet Folklorico, Música, Arte y Poesia y Talleres (Ballet Folklorico , Music, Art and Poetry Festival)