Meet UNCSA Artpreneurs

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Meet UNCSA Artpreneurs

The UNCSA Artpreneur Initiative has provided graduating college students and alumni the opportunity to receive funding to support their creative works and enterprises deemed to be of the highest merit, artistic excellence or innovative potential.

Below, meet the graduates and alumni who have received Artpreneur grants, which have been awarded annually since 2018.

Jackson Baker
Jackson Baker
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"Arcadia" web series
Rachel Cozart
Rachel Cozart
2022 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
SnowGlobe Series interdisciplinary installation
Jenna Cusack
Jenna Cusack
2022 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Bad Look" short film
Emily DeForest
Emily DeForest
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"Angry Belly" auto-fictional short film
Tij D'oyen
Tij D'oyen
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"Nepo, Baby!" short film
Billie Feather
Billie Feather
2022 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Feather Farm Recording
Tramaine Rapheal Gray
Tramaine Rapheal Gray
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
Live Art Experience, ever-evolving Black Queer storytelling
Nile Harris
Nile Harris
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"this house is not a home" improvised choreographic happening
Ayo Jackson
Ayo Jackson
2022 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Multidisciplinary artist and artist-activist
Asia Jones
Asia Jones
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"Nakita: Legend of the Ancient Ones" animated kids' show
Alex Avril Klein
Alex Avril Klein
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
Grrrl Gaze Film School, an easily accessible e-learning platform
Gregg Mozgala
Gregg Mozgala
2022 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Founder and Artistic Director, The Apothetae
Hannah Myers
Hannah Myers
2022 Artpreneur Launch Grant Recipient
"DADDY" feature documentary
Houston Odum
Houston Odum
2022 Student Artpreneur Award Recipient
"Passages" by Activate Entertainment, LLC - a storytelling performance
Marina Zurita
Marina Zurita
2022 Student Artpreneur Award Recipient
"Crossing Borders: Launching Mother Tongue" multidisciplinary performance
Jenny Best
Jenny Best
2021 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Founder and CEO of Solid Starts
Owen Broder
Owen Broder
2021 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
American Roots Project
Arianna Bohning
Arianna Bohning
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Collab, an application to connect collaborative pianists with musicians in need
Abel Brone-Hammer
Abel Brone-Hammer
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Community arts project _PUBLIC PEOPLE_
Jo Hatcher
Jordan "Jo" Hatcher
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Hard Feelings" film
Anika Ramlo
Anika Ramlo
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
"Risk of Elopement" theater piece
Julia Walpole
Julia Walpole
2021 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
Quiet Frame film and media production company
Jessica McJunkins
Jessica McJunkins
2020 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Project: Cultural equity contractor for artists of color
Olivia Mead
Olivia Mead
2020 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Enterprise: YogaShield, Yoga for First Responders
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Trey Gray
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
Miles McKeller-Smith
2020 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
crEATe Artist Network, a job search service tailored to artists and their transferable skills.
Mayra Rodas
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
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
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
Camille A. Brown
2019 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Enterprise: Camille A. Brown and Dancers
Juel D. Lane
Juel D. Lane
2019 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Project: "Touch and Agree"
Taylor Dankovich
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
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
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
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
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
Christopher Baine
2018 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year
Creative Enterprise: Avae
Ebony Cawthorne
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
Carina Mae Marquez
2018 Student Artpreneur Grant Recipient
A documentary film about the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
Jordan Medley
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
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.