Meet The 2024 En Foco Media Fund Awardees

En Foco is proud to announce the awardees of the 2024 Media Arts Works in Progress Fund. The Initiative was organized in collaboration with public access television network BronxNet and supports NYC-based, early-career artists of color who engage with digital media technologies in their art-making processes and need support for the completion of a quality work in progress. Awardees will receive a $2,000 support grant to be used towards the completion of the proposed projects and a special feature within the Fellowship issue of Nueva Luz.

The five 2024 Media Arts Fund: Work-In-Progress Initiative Awardees were chosen from a pool of 71 applicants by panelists, Katherine Emely Gomez, Visual Artist, Illustrator, and Design Manager, Tricia McLaughlin, Visual Artist, and Ramón Torres, Filmmaker educator, and musician. 

The En Foco Media Arts Fund: Works In Progress (WIP) Initiative has evolved from the En Foco Photography Fellowship with a growing awareness of the expanding language of photography and consideration for artists engaged in more inclusive forms of media-making. The Media Arts Fund is En Foco’s response to provide for more opportunities for early-career artists of color, who would like to have their work supported, and exhibited. En Foco has successfully assisted previous awardees in their fundraising as well as used the services of funded artists as consultants in various initiatives. En Foco is always available to media artists who need career advice.