
Jackson Baker
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"Arcadia" web series

Rachel Cozart
2022 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
SnowGlobe Series interdisciplinary installation

Jenna Cusack
2022 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Bad Look" short film

Emily DeForest
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"Angry Belly" auto-fictional short film

Tij D'oyen
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"Nepo, Baby!" short film

Billie Feather
2022 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Feather Farm Recording

Tramaine Rapheal Gray
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
Live Art Experience, ever-evolving Black Queer storytelling

Nile Harris
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"this house is not a home" improvised choreographic happening

Ayo Jackson
2022 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Multidisciplinary artist and artist-activist

Asia Jones
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"Nakita: Legend of the Ancient Ones" animated kids' show

Alex Avril Klein
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
Grrrl Gaze Film School, an easily accessible e-learning platform

Gregg Mozgala
2022 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Founder and Artistic Director, The Apothetae

Hannah Myers
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"DADDY" feature documentary

Houston Odum
2022 Student Artpreneur Award Recipient
"Passages" by Activate Entertainment, LLC - a storytelling performance

Marina Zurita
2022 Student Artpreneur Award Recipient
"Crossing Borders: Launching Mother Tongue" multidisciplinary performance

Jenny Best
2021 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Founder and CEO of Solid Starts

Owen Broder
2021 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
American Roots Project

Arianna Bohning
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Collab, an application to connect collaborative pianists with musicians in need

Abel Brone-Hammer
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Community arts project _PUBLIC PEOPLE_

Jordan "Jo" Hatcher
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Hard Feelings" film

Anika Ramlo
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Risk of Elopement" theater piece

Julia Walpole
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Quiet Frame film and media production company

Jessica McJunkins
2020 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Project: Cultural equity contractor for artists of color

Olivia Mead
2020 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Enterprise: YogaShield, Yoga for First Responders
(opens inoga for First Responders

Tramaine Gray
2020 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
The "Live Art Experience" project reimagines theater and visual arts in a multidisciplinary,
unconventional and immersive art museum that examines social issues to promote learning,
healing and positive change.

Miles McKeller-Smith
2020 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
crEATe Artist Network, a job search service tailored to artists and their transferable
skills.

Mayra Rodas
2020 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Rodas Production, a creative enterprise dedicated to telling the stories of Hispanics
and women of color on platforms such as Netflix.

Lauren Blair Smith
2020 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Intruder," a contemporary dance choreographic work that explores the unknown and
obscure inner life of an individual through an abstract space saturated with five
resilient, vilatile versions of the same self.

Kayana Waller
2020 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Secret Women," a documentary project exploring the nuances of domestic violence,
mass incarceration, and human trafficking through stories told by survivors.

Camille A. Brown
2019 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Enterprise: Camille A. Brown and Dancers

Juel D. Lane
2019 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Project: "Touch and Agree"

Taylor Dankovich
2019 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Who Knows?" podcast is an enterprise that creates content promoting curiosity and
learning with an emphasis on mental health awareness.

Malik Dowdy
2019 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"State of Dope" is a creative project in filmmaking that explores the violence among
youth in urban or minority-dense communities caused by sneaker culture.

Bailey Lee
2019 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"B. Lee's collection of poems for children and frongs" is a publication aimed at promoting
a love of nature, biodiversity and sustainable living practices to inspire hope and
empowerment in younger generations.

Luis Sanz
2019 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
The "El Cuatro Sinfónico" musical album will help to expose and develop the repertoire
of the cuatro an indigenous Puerto Rican string instrument.

Alexis Sneed
2019 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Medical Task Trainers is an enterprise that uses prosthetic art with a high level
of detail and anatomical accuracy, to advance military and civilian medicine.

Christopher Baine
2018 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Enterprise: Avae

Ebony Cawthorne
2018 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Resurgence is a creative non-profit organization with a mission to bring the arts
to underrepresented youth of color and stimulate them into action through the arts.

Carina Mae Marquez
2018 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
A documentary film about the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.

Jordan Medley
2018 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Medley of Moves Collective is a creative enterprise to bring innovative works in film
and dance to underrepresented artists of color, allowing them an original platform
for their collaborative work.

Douglas Rowe
2018 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
A drumming enterprise to facilitate community gatherings in order to break barriers,
whether it be race, gender, disabilities, etc.