Silver Spring, Maryland ($5,000)

Dancer whose work explores architecturally informed partnering developed among diverse artists.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($2,606)

Visual artist specializing in hand-cut-and-assembled gelatin silver photo collages, and for the black and white photographs from which they are made.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($5,000)

Author, filmmaker, photographer, and lecturer whose work focuses on changing the dialogue about beauty standards for women through documentary film and unaltered photography.

Takoma Park, Maryland ($4,000)

Photographer specializing in straight analog photos of mixed-media constructions of materials as a means of mirroring our general sense of contemporary complexities, and as an attempt to hold the viewer in an act of questioning.

Germantown, Maryland ($3,500)

Fashion designer for Indiskreet, catering to the multifaceted lifestyles of people living in urban areas through vibrant colors and graphics on vogue silhouettes.

Kensington, Maryland ($3,600)

Visual artist interested in sparking fresh and productive conversations about difficult subjects through the mark-making process of painting.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($2,160)

Visual artist focused on depictions of natural history and medical specimens using colored pencil on paper, which is then further manipulated with abstract post-rendering interventions to contrast the representational drawing.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($3,750)

Director, writer, and speaker interested in expanding offerings and points of engagement with her feature debut, a personal documentary about her family’s relationship with Jewish traditions.

Montgomery Village, Maryland ($3,136)

Author who writes contemporary domestic fiction set in common places ordinary people encounter daily, transformed into settings for tragedy and triumph as ordinary people face their passions and fears.

North Bethesda, Maryland ($3,750)

Musician influenced by the local jazz sounds and her Brazilian African-Indigenous background.

Rockville, Maryland ($3,564)

Visual artist focused on a pop art style, offering the viewer the comfort of the familiar with subtle indications that memories of the past are idealized more than the reality of the experience.

Takoma Park, Maryland ($4,392)

Interdisciplinary visual artist seeking to expose the destructive nature of prejudice while advocating for compassion.

Takoma Park, Maryland ($2,168)

Visual artist specializing in intricately woven abstract paintings, using a specialized tool to extrude wet oil paint in “threads.”

North Bethesda, Maryland ($4,000)

Musician known for evocative performances in traditional North Indian (Hindustani) classical music, collaborations with musicians of other genres, and innovative compositions.

Chevy Chase, Maryland ($3,500)

Musician focused on performing and producing an album with the ukulele.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($4,750)

Multidisciplinary visual artist whose work is a mixture of traditional practices merged with experimental but equally important digital practices.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($3,750)

Visual artist whose initial interest in pencil drawings has evolved into extending drawing into new areas such as printmaking, papermaking, and photoetching.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($5,000)

Author focused on writing speculative fiction, creating new worlds as a creative framework to explore the one that we all live in.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($4,500)

Photographer whose work captures the in-between moments that are overlooked yet embody the heart of the subject matter.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($4,500)

Musician who performs folk-soul original and cover songs on acoustic guitar and harmonica.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($5,000)

Visual artist specializing in weaving and resist dyeing, incorporating ikat and plangi into hand-woven wall pieces.

Bethesda, Maryland ($4,000)

Visual artist whose work, although representational, maintains that all art is essentially abstract and as much about relationships as about any ostensible subject matter.

Bethesda, Maryland ($4,000)

Multimedia project-based artist and activist, primarily focused on advancing awareness of social and political issues.

Potomac, Maryland ($2,700)

Musician and composer, writing extensively for the guitar in varying genres ranging from solo classical and electric to full guitar ensembles, as well as other instrumental combinations.

Chevy Chase, Maryland ($2,880)

Musician and devoted advocate for new music, particularly the expansion of the clarinet solo literature.

Kensington, Maryland ($1,947)

Visual artist specializing in oil painting, whose representational works are about personal connection.

Rockville, Maryland ($3,750)

Visual artist focused on creating installations and digital paintings exploring invisible boundaries.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($3,750)

Photographer whose work is rooted in a connection with place and nature, with a particular interest in the photobook as a uniquely intimate way of presenting works.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($3,750)

Mixed-media artist whose work explores the interactions between line, color, and materials.

Takoma Park, Maryland ($2,709)

Printmaker and mixed-media artist exploring the traditional printmaking process to create handmade standalone prints, as well as prints on fabric using lithographic, screen print, or collagraph intaglio processes, all of which are often further manipulated to make new compositions.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($5,000)

Visual artist focused on cultural identity and memory.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($3,000)

Mixed-media artist whose work involves layering paint, netting, filaments, torn paper, and cut digital drawings to explore the mysteries of movement.

Bethesda, Maryland ($4,750)

Playwright whose body of work is comprised of mostly comedies, and whose most recent work follows the bittersweet struggles of an adult daughter caring for her aging mother.

Potomac, Maryland ($3,750)

Storyteller focused on personal experiences, literally and abstractly, to give observant Jewish women a voice, who have historically not had the opportunities to share their perspective.

Rockville, Maryland ($3,995)

Author with a concentration on fantasy literature that presents increasing human freedom as an instrument of re-enchantment in a damaged world that can be healed.

Silver Spring, Maryland ($2,314)

Musician trained as a classical flutist, focused on highlighting flute music composed by women, and the documentation of female composers.

Rockville, Maryland ($3,655)

Author and performer exploring the relationship between form and content, and how multiple mediums can lead to varying discoveries for both audience and author.

Gaithersburg, Maryland ($4,230)

Visual artist whose artistic practice combines dye painting, photography, digital techniques, and embroidery in innovative and unprecedented ways to explore the relation between nature and toxicity.

North Potomac, Maryland ($5,000)

Filmmaker with a passion for fictional and documentary films that show the social conditions in both India and in the South Asian diaspora of the United States.

Kensington, Maryland ($4,500)

Media artist whose work includes graphic design, editorial, and marketing for major media outlets, as well as a documentary about the first Jewish farming colony in the United States.

Rockville, Maryland ($4,250)

Visual artist focused on transforming still life subject matter into dynamic, modern imagery using combined printmaking mediums of monotype, woodcut, and screen print to create a balance between decorative Victorian art and modernism.