2023 Soros Arts Fellows Announced: Artists to Confront Climate Change with Community-Based Art Projects
Largest Class Since 2018, Fellows Receive $100,000 Each to Develop Projects that Address Environmental Issues and Foster Social Change in Global Communities; Palestinian Artist Nida Sinnokrot and New York-Based Artist Jordan Weber Among Recipients.
- The 2023 Soros Arts Fellows, the largest class since the program began in 2018, will receive $100,000 each from Open Society Foundations to create public art projects confronting climate change and social issues within global communities.
- Each of the 18 chosen artists, including Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot and New York-based artist Jordan Weber, are expected to develop projects that contribute to social change by addressing environmental issues, cultivating resilience, and challenging divisive paradigms.
- Jordan Weber plans to use his fellowship to implement a project in Detroit, planting an acre of conifer trees to counteract pollution from nearby automobile factories, while also educating the local community about environmental justice.
- Molemo Moiloa, a South African artist, intends to create an art project, 'The Ungovernable', aimed at helping South Africans to connect with the land, and teaching them strategies for survival in their challenging socioeconomic environment.
- Nida Sinnokrot's art project, 'Storytelling Stones: How far does your mother’s voice carry?' aims to harness 'ancestral knowledge systems' to shape a more nuanced and sustainable approach to climate change — he plans to construct Palestinian stone shelters with novel uses to resonate with the environment and oral histories.
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