(updated with images)

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Winter 2006/7 cadre biannual grant for visual artists. It was a very difficult selection process as all of the jurors were overwhelmed by the quality of the applications, and if we'd had more money we could have easily funded more artists. With $3908.69 in donations, we made the decision to partially fund six artists/projects with the belief that the amount we could contribute would still make a significant difference in the realization of the work.


It is clear to us that this type of funding is needed, so it is our collective challenge to continue to spread the word about cadre in order to insure its continued success and growth. We are in the process of scheduling a celebratory event here in San Francisco to toast the winners and continue to build our donor base. We hope those of you who are local will be able to attend - stay tuned for more details!

And finally, we're off and running toward the next grant cycle with $325 already donated! We gladly accept donations all year round. Please visit the cadre site for details.

And the recipients:



Jessamyn Lovell's "Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions" is a long-term project that incorporates photography, text, drawing, video, and sound to create an anthology of her family's life. The book serves as a photographic journal that includes the stories and erratic, transformative history of the struggles her family has dealt with and continues living through on a small farm in rural Upstate New York. ($1000)



Ifetayo Abdus-Salam
Itefayo will use the cadre grant towards the creation of a video piece that will integrate some 20 existing interviews with women and scholars in an in-depth examination of the stereotypes of Black women in American society. She will explore the way these stereotypes are further perpetuated by common contemporary images of Black women in media, and the effects of such imagery on Black women. ($450)






Collaborator's Guide is a collective of interdisciplinary artists, designers, illustrators, writers, stylists, thinkers, technologists, friends, and patrons who create socially engaging and participatory situations. They will execute two site-specific participatory events and exhibits, which in turn raise funds to be re-donated to cadre. The project will take place in London and Tokyo, where Collaborator's Guide members reside, allowing cadre to reach new audiences. ($1066)



Jessica Ingram is working on a project concentrated in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, photographing sites of racial conflict and violence, looking at how these sites are memorialized. She is curious about how these sites fade into the landscapes, or awkwardly stand out, seemingly unnoticed locally. How do the affects of this history still reverberate in these communities and in the landscape? ($750)



Andy Fraser
Andy's sculptural pieces make a simple connection between small abrasions and bigger illnesses such as AIDS. At first just wrapping objects in band-aids, a tedious and compulsive task, Andy is now making shapes with the band-aids that are more organic and less identifiable. ($140)



Nora Barrows-Friedman
Nora will be traveling back to occupied Palestine to continue her photographic work, and will be putting together a series of images that will be shown in a gallery exhibition in the San Francisco Bay Area. Also establishing a website with her images and published reports from Palestine, Barrows-Friedman will make a fully-functional multi-media outlet for her artistic expression as well as important news, information and analysis of the ever-changing situation. ($500)




Many, many thanks to our jurors who put in many hours reviewing our 28 applications. And thanks to all of you for your continued support of this project!!