Thursday, August 9, 2012
Visual Arts MINT Gallery announces Leap Year grant recipients
Posted by Adam Carlson on Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:26 AM
MINT has just made three artists very happy.
Yesterday, the gallery announced the recipients of Leap Year, its year-long mentorship program which pairs emerging creative voices in the city with both resources and support.
Jessica Caldas, Johnny Drago (CL's 2012 Fiction Contest winner), and Rebecca Hanna — a printmaker, dramatist, and artist, respectively — have each been named and will receive free membership to various Atlanta arts organizations, the guidance of two mentors, and access to medium-specific workshops and discussions, in addition to a stipend for supplies and studio space at The Goat Farm.
Leap Year is grant-based, with donations from Possible Futures, The Sarah Giles Moore Foundation, Georgia Council for the Arts, and The Goat Farm Arts Center’s Stodja House Platform. Its bundled benefits, according to a press release, are part of a larger effort on the part of MINT to “offer exhibition space, curatorial opportunities, and other resources to artists.”
Caldas, Drago, and Hanna will take advantage of all of it: in their statements, the trio seems excited and surprised (and humbled and grateful). Their 12 months begin Sept. 1, with a group exhibition of new work to cap it off at the end.
After the jump, take a look at some past work as a possible preview of what’s to come.
- Courtesy MINT
- Jessica Caldas
- Courtesy MINT
- Johnny Drago
- Courtesy MINT
- Rebecca Hanna detail
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