Grantee Grant/Fellowship Year Awarded Location
Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music dba The Freight TourWest 2025 Berkeley, California

Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music dba The Freight

Bezerk Productions ArtsHERE 2024 Joshua Tree, California

Discipline: Interdisciplinary

Big Wind Carpenter Leaders of Color Fellowship 2022 - 2023 Wymoing
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communications & community oranizer, Indigenous Land Alliance

Big Wind is a Two Spirit member of the Northern Arapaho tribe from the Wind River Reservation. At a young age, Big Wind recognized many injustices and degrees of oppression within their community. They became involved in youth & climate organizing at the age of 13 when they learned of environmental racism happening near their home. Since then, they have worked on numerous campaigns throughout “”Indian Country””, utilizing art as a storytelling mechanism inside and around movement spaces. As a multi-faceted artist, they have utilized video, audio, and social media to highlight injustices, with the success of their debut mixtape in late 2019, they Currently they are working on their debut EP with two singles released this year, totaling over 30,000 streams across platforms.

Bitterroot Performing Arts Council TourWest 2024 Hamilton, Montana
Blanca Y. Herrada Leaders of Color Fellowship 2022 - 2023 Kansas
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Artist, Activist, Educator, The Lawrence Arts Center

Blanca Herrada is a Queer, Mexican American Artist and Activist living and working in Lawrence, Kansas, and her pronouns are she/they. In 2014 Blanca received a Bachelor of Fine Art with an emphasis in Painting and a minor in Art History from Emporia State University. Since that time, she has shown her work regionally and locally. Her work often focuses on her life experiences, friends, and family. Blanca enjoys working on large-scale oil paintings that they often combine with mixed media to create contemporary pieces that combine traditional and new methods. Blanca enjoys working within the intersections of art and activism and is passionate about her community. They have been privileged to coordinate and work on several public art projects and currently teach classes at the Lawrence Arts Center. She formerly taught workshops to adults with cognitive and physical disabilities through Douglas County Day Services. Blanca enjoys working with diverse communities to spread her love for the arts and strives to make art spaces more accessible and welcoming to everyone.

Blue Sage Center TourWest 2024 Paonia, Colorado
Blue Sage Center TourWest 2023 Paonia, Colorado
Blue Sage Center TourWest 2022 Paonia, Colorado
Board of Regents, NSHE obo University of Nevada, Reno TourWest 2022 Reno, Nevada
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University TourWest 2024 Stanford, California
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University TourWest 2023 Stanford, California
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University TourWest 2022 Stanford, California
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University TourWest 2025 Stanford, California

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Boise Blues Society TourWest 2024 Eagle, Idaho
Boise Blues Society, Inc. TourWest 2023 Boise, Idaho
Boise Jazz Society TourWest 2025 Boise, Idaho

Boise Jazz Society

Boise Philharmonic Association, Inc. TourWest 2025 Boise, Idaho

Boise Philharmonic Association, Inc.

Bomba Marile TourWest 2024 Sandy, Utah
Bomba Marile TourWest 2023 Sandy, Utah
Bomba Marile TourWest 2025 Sandy, Utah

Bomba Marile

Boom Arts, Inc. TourWest 2024 Portland, Oregon
Boom Arts, Inc. TourWest 2023 Portland, Oregon
Boom Arts, Inc. TourWest 2022 Portland, Oregon
Boom Arts, Inc. TourWest 2025 Portland, Oregon

Boom Arts, Inc.