Mei Ann Teo is dedicated to work that centers marginalized people and challenges audiences. In our latest conversation, they discuss their origins in theater, encountering texts that open up something inside us, and strategies that make audiences active participants in the work.

In my first for @chicagotribune.com, I interviewed Chicago-based artists Edra Soto, Ben LaMar Gay, and Sharon Udoh who are all recipients of $50,000 @unitedstatesartists.org fellowships! www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/14/u...

⭐ Say hello to our 2026 USA Fellows ⭐ This year, we are thrilled to award a new cohort of USA Fellows, fifty exceptional artists and collectives across all disciplines, spanning nineteen US states and Washington, DC. To learn more about the USA Fellowship head to www.unitedstatesartists.org

As museum and cultural budgets shrink across the US, more artists are being asked to finance their own exhibitions, raising questions about access, equity and who can afford to show. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/06/u...

Theater artist Geoff Sobelle is a dedicated absurdist, drawn to illusion and the surreal. In the following conversation, Sobelle retraces his creative upbringing, describes new clown work underway, and explains the active role of the audience in his work.

Congratulations to USA Fellow (2020) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on their Tony win for PURPOSE (playing through August 30)! On the heels of your Pulitzer!! playbill.com/article/best...

We share news of the fifth cohort of Rainin Arts Fellows with tremendous pride and excitement. Please join us in applauding Vanessa Sanchez (Dance), Kyle Casey Chu (Film), Christy Chan (Public Space) and Brenda Wong Aoki (Theater). www.unitedstatesartists.org/perspectives...

We are so unbelievable proud of Susie Ibarra (Music, USA Fellow 2019) and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Theater, USA Fellow 2020) for their well-deserved Pulitzer Prizes in recognition of their works "Sky Island" (Ibarra) and "Purpose" (Jacobs-Jenkins). wowowowow pulitzer.org/news/22865

The Rainin Arts Fellowship, administered by @unitedstatesartists.org supports visionary Bay Area artists working in dance, film, public space and theater with unrestricted grants alongside tailored resources to sustain and strengthen their practices.

We're so proud to announce the inaugural Wagner Arts Fellowship with Wagner Foundation. This award recognizes mid-career visual artists in Boston. The awardees are L'Merchie Frazier, Daniela Rivera and Wen-ti Tsen. www.unitedstatesartists.org/perspectives...

USA Fellow Helado Negro (2019, Music) @heladonegro.bsky.social will be playing at Big Ears tomorrow night in Tennessee! Here's a recap of the preview for "Star Scores" (Roberto Carlos Lange x Kristi Sword) we hosted during Miami Art Week last winter. www.unitedstatesartists.org/perspectives...

JOB ALERT: United States Artists is hiring for a Communications Assistant! Know someone or want to submit your resume? Follow the link here (click through to "Careers" for full job posting): www.unitedstatesartists.org/contact

Meet the inaugural cohort of Wagner Fellows! As an Initiative partner, USA excited to share the announcement of L'Merchie Frazier, Daniela River and Wen-ti Tsen as 3 Boston-based artists who are being celebrated with this Award. www.unitedstatesartists.org/perspectives...

Angel Bat Dawid (USA Fellow, Music 2025) is interviewed by Christine S. Escobar at @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social. They talk about Mozart, systemic injustice in the music scene, showing up for community and how much Chicago rules. 💜 icareifyoulisten.com/2025/03/for-...

Thank you to our partners, the Gilbert Family Foundation and @unitedstatesartists.org, for the incredibly successful first year of the Seed and Bloom: Detroit initiative, supporting under-resourced artists in their neighborhoods. Learn more about the artists' impact and the program's future goals:

“Poverty porn, historical traumas, and corny stories is what most audiences expect from a Native media. My goal is to shake off all those played out narratives and make a new cinematic mutant.” Blackhorse Lowe in conversation with Shivani Soumaya at USA. www.unitedstatesartists.org/perspectives...

Rea Tajiri (USA 2025 Fellow, Film), is tending to ghosts. We talk about identity, aesthetics, and the bardo. www.unitedstatesartists.org/perspectives...

We're so excited for Roberto Carlos Lange @heladonegro.bsky.social (USA Fellow 2019) & Kristi Sword's "Star Scores" opening @icaboston.bsky.social on Friday! USA got to preview this mesmerizing work during Miami Art Week and are still floating in its wonder. 🫧🫧🫧 www.icaboston.org/events/rober...

Liz Phillips is a 2025 USA Music Fellow, though it's safer to describer her as multi-disciplinary. We spoke with her about friendship, synthesis, electronics, the inexorable sounds of nature and aging with your medium. www.unitedstatesartists.org/perspectives...

Congrats to Finnegan Shannon, whose work was a touchstone for Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (edited with Rebecca Sanchez, avail. open access) nyupress.org/978147981936...

Meet our Architecture & Design Fellows of 2025! Borderless Studio Paola Aguirre Serrano (she/her), Dennis Milam (he/him) San Antonio, TX and Chicago, IL Finnegan Shannon (they/them) Brooklyn, NY Jerome W Haferd (he/him) Harlem, NY Leah Wulfman (they/them) Salt Lake City, UT

💜🖤Meet the 2025 Fellows 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦

"The 2025 cohort is a diverse list, including four Native Hawaiian and 12 Indigenous artists and collectives. The group includes artists at various stages of their careers, from seasoned professionals over the ages of 50 to young emerging talents in their twenties." www.artsy.net/article/arts...

Meet our visual arts fellows in this @artreview.bsky.social write up! artreview.com/united-state...

We got to add some Sonnenzimmer sprinkle (motion+sound) to some graphics for USA's 2025 Fellowship announcement. Learn about these artists! It will brighten your day and make your heart full. For more about the 2025 cohort go to www.unitedstatesartists.org or follow @unitedstatesartists.org

🦭🦅🖤🫶🏽✨ with particular joy to share this honor with artists @itsgala.bsky.social and Bojan Louis whose work and friendship and vision have sustained me for many years!

Say hello to our 2025 USA Fellows! www.unitedstatesartists.org

In 2025, USA enters its 20th year of commitment to durable, sustainable support to artists and creative practitioners in All Stages, in All Ways, Always. 50 exceptional artists and collectives working in ten disciplines in twenty-one US states, spanning the most nascent to mature stages of careers.

What a news week...We received a panicked call about USA Artists being eliminated in the federal funding freeze. Rest assured, while we have a most "government cheese" sounding name, that we are in fact an independent organization. Our hearts go out to everyone on this news cycle-roller coaster!

We can't wait to publicly share our list of 2025 USA Fellows tomorrow morning (11am ET). Learn more about the fellowship: www.unitedstatesartists.org/programs/usa...

The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund is now taking applications. This fund aims to support artists and arts workers who were impacted by the devastating Los Angeles fires. Check eligibility requirements and apply now through February 18 at 5 pm PST at cciarts.org.

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United States Artists will announce its 2025 class of fellows on January 30, representing artists working in Architecture & Design, Craft, Film, Traditional Arts, Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Art and Writing. Stay tuned, and to find out more, please visit us at unitedstatesartists.org