Here is the full list of winners of The Ellies 2022:
creator award
Fola Akinde
Yoruba Mappings
$5,000 for a play exploring the revitalization of Yoruba spirituality and religious practice in Miami.
Margaret Cardillo
Jane the First
$12,000 for a documentary about Jane Chastain, America’s first female sportscaster, who started on WTVJ in Miami.
Carolina Casusol Valley
In Conversation with My Fellows
$5,000 for a work that focuses on the stories of Latin American immigrants in the United States along with 104 species of flora that flourish in dry, hot and rocky environments despite adversity.
Rose-Marie Cromwell
King of Fish
$10,000 for a photo book that tells the story of Coco Solo, a former US military base in Panama, which was repurposed as a public housing community and eventually demolished to become a container yard serving the Panama Canal.
Caroline Cave
In Being, In Space: Form and Care
$8,000 for a sculptural installation that reimagines everyday objects in Western homes to reflect current indigenous identities and cultures.
dodge face
This Bitter Earth
$10,000 for a narrative short film focused on the iguana, a symbol of homosexuality seen as another, which is being hunted by those seeking to maintain hierarchy and order.
Smith Durogene
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
$5,000 for a photographic series that captures the changing character of South Florida neighborhoods in the face of new development.
Liz Ferrer
[Cries in Spanish] ([Gritos en español])
$6,000 for a bilingual episodic web series that follows the stories of Latino characters and queer who live in the United States. The work is inspired by a viral meme of the tear-stained face of the novel’s villain Soraya with the ironic subtitle Cries in Spanish.
Alexandra Fields O’Neale
Bound//Unbound
$10,000 for a sound art installation in Key Biscayne that uses the ocean as a narrator to describe the cyclical nature of slavery through the Middle Passage and freedom through the Saltwater Railroad.
Dara Friedmann
River Hill
$25,000 to create a meandering labyrinth in a Buffalo, New York brownfield area that offers people the opportunity to physically relax.
Leslie Gomez-Gonzalez
to forget, is to forget us (to forget, is to forget us)
$5,000 for a traveling installation consisting of a blue table with a woven banana leaf table runner that travels to different communities in an effort for people to share, listen and feel together.
Jayme Kaye Gershen
Six Degrees
$12,000 to create a hybrid film that weaves together universal stories of identity and culture that, in turn, connect a changing city.
Yi Chin Hsieh
The Dinner Party
$6,000 for an exhibition project in which small groups will experience dinner with participating artists; however, in lieu of food, participants will receive limited edition artwork and learn the stories behind it.
Jacek Kolasinski
Creole Archive Project – Book Project
$10,000 for a book on the historical and cultural links between Poland and Haiti, a connection that begins with the Haitian Revolution and continues to this day.
Amanda Linares
I come from everywhere and everywhere I go (I come from everywhere and everywhere I shall go)
$11,000 for an immersive installation fueled by the artist’s discovery of her paternal great-grandfather’s stone house in Spain, exploring themes of immigration, interconnectedness, and identity.
T. Elliott Mansa
Room for the Living/Room for the Dead
$15,000 for an exhibition that recreates the sunken rooms popular in the 1970s as a sanctuary for the dead and that is activated as a meeting space to play cards and dominoes or bring flowers and photographs for their deceased loved ones.
Francisco Maso
Interaction of Political Colors
$8,000 for a limited edition of silkscreen works that examine the use of color in totalitarian societies, based on a study of the colors and patterns used by the secret police in Cuba.
Rhonda Mitrani
With Grace
$12,000 for a short, experimental documentary about the life of a Cuban woman who immigrated to Miami Beach after the revolution and uses a feminist lens to examine age and gender roles and the subtleties of machismo in Cuban Jewish communities.
Johann C. Munoz
“amidst the explosion of rockets and the music of several bands”
$8,000 for a transdisciplinary show chronicling the American journey of Numa Equís, an accordionist from Magdalena, Colombia, and his transformative relationship with musical traditions and identity.
William Osorio
The Path to the Volcanoes
$10,000 for a series of large-format paintings exploring the recent mass exodus of Cubans following the July 2021 protests and the Cuban government’s attack on civil liberties.
Jee Park
Close to Home
$6,000 for an exhibition exploring the rise of violence against Asian Americans based on the Suui, a traditional Korean burial garment used as a gesture of love and regard for the deceased.
Larissa Perez
The Grove
$5,000 for a series of photographs and interviews documenting some of Miami’s earliest settlers, the Bahamian community, in Coconut Grove as a way to share their history and cultural heritage.
Lee Pivnik
Symbiotic House
$10,000 to develop a livable shelter and arts and ecology center in Redland. Which will serve as a model for a Miami facing the combined crises of climate change, housing insecurity, and income inequality.
Victoria Ravelo
Our Inheritance /Those Who Come After
$8,000 for an exhibition focused on the personal and collective memories of the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora.
ema ri
Flower Columns
$6,000 to continue the thread of love, time and memory by creating columns made of resin and dehydrated flowers from the work Here with you.
oscar rieveling
Self-Mariachi
$6,000 for a musician-centered exploration and representation of mariachi music by answering the question Who serenades the serenateros?
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
hatchet
$10,000 for an exhibition that is a healing sanctuary for black, brown, and gay bodies, comprised of documentary sculptures and moving images created in collaboration with reproductive health crisis survivors, allies, and justice leaders.
Anastasia Samoylova
Floridas
$8,000 for a photographic exhibition that explores the multiple contradictions of Florida – beach vs. swamp, wealth vs. poverty – and which combines Walker Evans’s 1934 photographs with contemporary images of the artist.
George Sanchez-Calderon
scar face
$15,000 for a puppet show based on the film Scarface and his seminal story about Miami, immigration and the American dream.
Carlos Sandoval de Leon
Light Stream
$15,000 for a public artwork that honors the experiences of Latin American migrant workers and is part of an initiative commemorating underrecognized narratives and their connections to Miami’s roots in the American South.
Smita Sen
Geology of Longing
$8,000 for a series of experimental dance films in which the artist traces her deceased father’s worldwide geological research and investigates the ways in which the human body and planet preserve memories of life after death
dainymar tapia
In the Company of Women: At Large
$11,000 for an exhibition of women artists based in South Florida that provides them with ample space to develop and display the ideas they are working on.
Robert Thiele
And Elsewhere
$12,000 for a survey catalog (artistic catalog) documenting all of the artist’s works to enable him to receive a new grant to recognize his achievements and contributions to the Miami art scene.
Clara Bull
Eight Minutes
$6,000 for an outdoor photography exhibit set up in wide-open spaces in Wynwood, telling the stories of longtime residents, including a family whose home was torn down in 8 minutes.
Cornelius Tulloch
Porch Passages
$20,000 for a series of artistic architectural installations in Liberty City and a digital archive that houses a storytelling space for Black and Caribbean dialogue, history and creativity, as rising tides and gentrification change the fabric of the minority neighborhoods of inner Miami.
Monica Uszerowicz
Dreaming as the Water Rises
$5,000 for a poetic essay and fanzine based on the dreams of Floridians about climate change and exploring how the climate crisis is affecting people.
nadia wolf
king
$15,000 for a ceremony honoring the weight of the Atlantic Coast for the people gay afrodiasporic and includes a performance around the braiding of a person’s hair into a basket structure on the crown of their head.
Antonia Wright
Women in Labor
$10,000 for a generative sound art installation protesting changes in legislation on access to safe and legal abortions. Through computational algorithms, the piece sonically amplifies the increased miles a woman will now have to travel across states to access reproductive care.
Ricardo E. Zulueta
Speculative Cyberscapes
$6,000 for a site-specific installation composed of textured paintings representing technological networks and accompanied by experimental 3D video animation that engenders a liminal space of contemplation.
Teacher travel grants
Jose Luis Garcia
New World School of the Arts
$5,000 to travel to New York and visit museums, archives, and attend photography workshops to help spark your students’ interest in black-and-white darkroom photography and other non-digital photographic processes.
Juan Alejandro Landaverde
Homestead Middle School
$5,000 to travel to Japan and study the art and history of printmaking and traditional Ukiyo-e prints to create a curriculum focused on Japanese art practices and culture for her Homestead students.
Mark Russel
Jose de Diego Middle School
$5,000 to travel to Europe to study art history to bring back new lessons to his students in Wynwood about the rich history and methods of creating art.
Silvana Soriano
Morningside K-8 Academy
$5,000 to travel to a residence in Spain to learn the art of Mokulito, a Japanese lithograph that uses wood instead of stone and screen printing, to complete a printmaking curriculum for fourth and fifth grade students.