Grants for Creative Individuals
Funding List
Fiscal Year 2026: $2,320,000
Grants for Creative Individuals
| Name | City/Town | Discipline | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luberta Cancel | Boxborough | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Luca Faithfull | Somerville | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| LYDIA FORTUNE | Worcester | Music | $5,000 |
| Madeline Gage | Concord | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Madhumita Nambiar | Shrewsbury | Dance | $5,000 |
| Maggie Felisberto | New Bedford | Literature | $5,000 |
| Mahathi Athreya | Billerica | Dance | $5,000 |
| Maithili Rajput | Boston | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Mal Petty | Easthampton | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Malik Maliki | Worcester | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Manasa Jayanthi | Billerica | Dance | $5,000 |
| MANORAMA CHOUDHURY | Southborough | Literature | $5,000 |
| Manuel Garcia-Baro | Sudbury | Music | $5,000 |
| Marcelo Trisano | Medford | Music | $5,000 |
| Marcia Gomes | Granby | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Marcus Silva | Rockland | Music | $5,000 |
| Margaret Whitehead | Holyoke | Literature | $5,000 |
| Margo Guernsey | Watertown | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Maria Pinto | Quincy | Literature | $5,000 |
| Mariana Cicerchia | Great Barrington | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Marie Lloyd Paspe | Upton | Dance | $5,000 |
| Marie Patricia Green | Northampton | Literature | $5,000 |
| Marisa Egerstrom | Belchertown | Community-based Arts | $5,000 |
| Marisa McCarthy | Andover | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Marky Kauffmann | Shirley | Photography | $5,000 |
| Mary Lacy | Belchertown | Community-based Arts | $5,000 |
| masami rodriguez | Acton | Music | $5,000 |
| Masataka Yamamoto | Lawrence | Music | $5,000 |
| Mattawamp-Nantai Mann | Webster | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Matthew Bajor | Boston | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Matthew McCusker | Hanover | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Matthew Shifrin | Newton | Music | $5,000 |
| Max Strong | Leverett | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| May Resh | Northampton | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Maya Erdelyi | Boston | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Maya Malachowski Bajak | Northampton | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Melissa Alexis-Bruce | Watertown | Dance | $5,000 |
| Michael Annear | Somerville | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Michael Davis | Quincy | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Michael F. Lowenthal | Boston | Literature | $5,000 |
| Michael Guadarrama | Brockton | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Michael Rain | Cambridge | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Michael Zimmermann | Middleborough | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Michiko Bailey (Andrade) | Boston | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Miguel Caba | Boston | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Minqi Wang | Orange | Music | $5,000 |
| Miranda Bushey | Northampton | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Miriam O’Neal | Plymouth | Literature | $5,000 |
| Molly Brennan | Bernardston | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Monica Liao | Boston | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Morgan Mastrangelo | Boston | Music | $5,000 |
| Muriel Johnson | Springfield | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Myles Taylor | Boston | Literature | $5,000 |
| Nancy Stuart | Plymouth | Literature | $5,000 |
| Nandini Samanta | Boston | Music | $5,000 |
| Natasha Blackwell-Shire | Leverett | Literature | $5,000 |
| Netera Mitchell | Middleborough | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Nicholas Ferguson | Brockton | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Nicholas Tolle | Methuen | Music | $5,000 |
| Nicholson Thibault | Brockton | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Nicol Wander | Winchendon | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Nicole Conlon-McCombe | Freetown | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Nicole Rose | Pittsfield | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Noel Staples-F | Pittsfield | Community-based Arts | $5,000 |
| Nova Reilly | Somerville | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Obiamaka Igwenagu | Auburn | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Olana Flynn | Holyoke | Dance | $5,000 |
| Pamela J. Petro | Northampton | Literature | $5,000 |
| Patric Madden | Northampton | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Patrick Todoroff | Barnstable | Literature | $5,000 |
| Payal Kumar | Boston | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Purnima Braiker | Natick | Dance | $5,000 |
| Qudrat Wasefi | Cambridge | Music | $5,000 |
| Rachel Bayliss | Medway | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Rachel Dillon | Boston | Literature | $5,000 |
| Rachel Leader | Northampton | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Rachel Rizzo | Boston | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Randee Paufve | Hadley | Dance | $5,000 |
| Rebecca Loechler | Leominster | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Rebecca Olander | Northampton | Literature | $5,000 |
| Reece Falardeau | Northbridge | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Reina Mercado-Antunez | Rowley | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Renee Silva | Andover | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Rhonda DeChambeau | East Bridgewater | Literature | $5,000 |
| Richard Marshall | Ludlow | Music | $5,000 |
| Robert DeGaetano | Douglas | Crafts | $5,000 |
| Robert Nesson | Somerville | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Rosalyn Driscoll | Williamsburg | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Rowan Raskin | Malden | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Ryan O’Connell | South Hadley | Music | $5,000 |
| S. Brannen | Sudbury | Literature | $5,000 |
| Sadie Saunders | Boston | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Sam Fields | Brockton | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Sam Shave | Boston | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Samadrita Bhattacharyya | Woburn | Dance | $5,000 |
| Samnang Riebe | Boston | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Samuel C. Wright | North Andover | Music | $5,000 |
| Samuel Tavares Bendix | Amesbury | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Sanna Gu | North Andover | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| SARA JORDENO | Arlington | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Sarah French | Worcester | Music | $5,000 |
| Sarah Kearns | Barnstable | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Sarah Rara | Williamstown | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Sarita Deshpande | Shrewsbury | Music | $5,000 |
| Saúl Ramos | Worcester | Community-based Arts | $5,000 |
| Serenity Saffold-Rice | Brookline | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Shana Figueroa | North Attleborough | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Shandelle Gomez | Somerville | Music | $5,000 |
| Shannon Lynch | Lynn | Media Arts | $5,000 |
| Shaun Connolly | Worcester | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Sheila Sinead McGuinness | Provincetown | Literature | $5,000 |
| shelby davis | Oxford | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Shiba Rashada | Cambridge | Crafts | $5,000 |
| SHINIQUA FIFE | Boston | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Shivaraj Natraj | Boston | Music | $5,000 |
| Shozab Raza | Boston | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Sonia Little | Chesterfield | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Sopheak Sam | Lowell | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Sophia Constable | Salem | Dance | $5,000 |
| Sophia Flowers | Yarmouth | Literature | $5,000 |
| Sreshta Ravikumar | Framingham | Literature | $5,000 |
| Sri Thumati | Arlington | Photography | $5,000 |
| Stephen Masterson | Lanesborough | Music | $5,000 |
| Stevie Syrota | Salem | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Sumita Mukherji | Arlington | Literature | $5,000 |
| Sun Brown | Brockton | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Sunanda Ghosh | Hopedale | Dance | $5,000 |
| Sunanda Narayanan | Newton | Dance | $5,000 |
| Susan Montgomery | Leverett | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Suzanne Revy | Carlisle | Photography | $5,000 |
| Tahanee Aluwihare | Natick | Music | $5,000 |
| Taija New | Chicopee | Music | $5,000 |
| Taisha Ceme | Raynham | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Takahiro Yamamoto | Boston | Dance | $5,000 |
| Tan Ni Wang | Boston | Music | $5,000 |
| Tanya Avendaño Stockler | Brockton | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Taylor Stark | Boston | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Teefa Fuseini | Worcester | Folk/Traditional Arts | $5,000 |
| Temistocles Ferreira | Amherst | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Terry Crystal | Cambridge | Theatre | $5,000 |
| Thato R. Mwosa | Milton | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Tiana Clark | Boston | Literature | $5,000 |
| Timothy Kiah | Newton | Music | $5,000 |
| Timothy Lovett | Northampton | Visual Arts | $5,000 |
| Toni Buzzeo | Arlington | Literature | $5,000 |
| Tony Vacca | Whately | Music | $5,000 |
| Torbin Harding | Shrewsbury | Music | $5,000 |
| Trevor Densmore | Falmouth | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Trinette Faint | Boston | Multidisciplinary | $5,000 |
| Tyler Roberts | Boston | Design Arts | $5,000 |