Grants and Programs

The primary focus of AFRICA’SOUT! grant-making is to advance radical change through the power of art and activism, particularly supporting artists, initiatives and institutions from Africa and its Diaspora that celebrate freedom of creative expression.

Grants are made to organizations doing ground-breaking work on the Continent for more inclusive communities. Individual artists are granted artist residencies and commissions. In partnership with Denniston Hill, founded by artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer and architectural theorist Lawrence Chua, AFRICA’SOUT! is supporting emerging artists from the African diaspora so they can successfully engage with more established artists, curators, and collectors.

Annually a grant is made to strengthen an artist’s work and support network. The Creativity + Courage Award is given to artists who have shown an abiding commitment to the freedom of creative expression, while having their own contested. The award is given at the annual AFRICA’SOUT! Celebration with a cash grant donated to an organization of the recipient’s choice

AFRICA’SOUT! promotes the myriad and powerful ways Art affects positive social change and emboldens people of African descent.

African Liberation Day Black Panther Party Newspaper, 1972 We have close to 100 of these in our collection and have purchased just about all of them from an ex-Panther/elder in our network of collectors. The Black Panther Intercommunal Newspaper beg
West African Handpainted Barbershop/Salon Signs Signs of this style originate in Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Ghana - painted by either hairstylists or paid artists. They depict elaborate styles of hair braiding or contemporary styles of hair
We are thrilled for our first takeover of 2019—BLK MKT Vintage! Stay tuned for an in-depth look into some objects and heirlooms from their collection. BLK MKT Vintage is a collection and online-shop comprised of black collectibles, cast-off's
“There are ways in which artworks speak that aren't necessarily loud: they can whisper and still have great power.” - Okwui Enwezor 🌿Thank you. May you rest. Photography by Juergen Teller for WSJ.
American Artist, still from Blue Life Seminar, HD video r.t. 19:31, 2019, Written by American Artist with text by Christopher Dorner, performed by Christopher Grant, animated by Matthew Mann & Tommy Martinez, music by Greg Fox. Image courtesy the
Joiri Minaya, Containers (2015-present). • Minaya’s work is currently on view at The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in Parallels and Peripheries. • The exhibition is curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, the newly appointed Susanne Fel
Today on International Women’s Day we are thinking about Bisi Silva and her legacy. Words by Oluremi C. Onabanjo in Aperture. “Over more than twenty-five years in the field of contemporary art and photography, her remarkable vision and i
Jon Key, Violet: Mythologies and Other Truths, on view now at Rubber Factory. Jon’s work refigures notions of the past, present, and reimagined future of QTPOC bodies and the American Dream. After the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre, Jon bega
Ja'Tovia Gary, "Tactile Cosmologies", installation view, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, 2019 Western convention has incorrectly taught us that seeing is believing. Seeing could be believing if our visual grammars were not loaned to us by whi
Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Flora, 2016