2025 black ball projects micro-granT: photography
2025 micro-grant RECIPIENT:
Summer McCorkle
Viewing Room (coming soon)
Artist Talk (coming soon)
Application Images
We are thrilled to announce that Summer McCorkle is the recipient of the 2025 Black Ball Project micro-grant.
Summer McCorkle is an artist whose projects incorporate both still photographs and time based videos and installations. As this year’s micro-grant recipient in the genre of photography, our jury was impressed with her technical skills and artistic eye that she couples with a kind of playfulness to create her compositions, be they still, quasi-still or moving.
Focusing her lens on landscapes in extreme climates, there is a quietness to her imagery that belies the passage of time and the ravages of human impact on the earth, and hints at an epic story stretching endlessly back in time and forward into the future.
“My projects investigate place, geography, memory, perception, energetics and time and are created by immersing myself in a location and responding to what I find there through lens based image-making. I consider how a location can function as both a fictional or a non-fictional space, depending on what the subject is and the parameters the project takes. I use location as a defining framework for capturing either a portrait of a person (real of fictional), residual energy from an alleged spiritual encounter or as a backdrop to a projected story that hasn’t actually happened.”
You can view a sample of Summer McCorkle's work here now, and stay tuned for the launch of her online viewing room and an artist’s talk with her this summer.
our 2025 micro-grant finalists
Black Ball Projects is proud to introduce you to the six nominees of the fifth annual Black Ball Projects micro-grant: Neil Kramer, Sam Margevicius, Stacy Mehrfar, Juliana Roccoforte Novello, Olga Ginzburg, and Summer McCorkle. You can view their work now by clicking on the images below, and we will announce the recipient shortly.
The genre this year is photography. After meeting initial eligibility requirements of having a mature practice, being underexposed, and having financial need, artists are then judged upon the strength of their submitted works. The recipient will receive the full micro-grant award of $2000, as well as a viewing room and an artist's talk on Black Ball Project's digital platform. Each of the additional nominees will receive a $250 stipend for the labor applied towards completing the application process.
the 2025 micro-grant nominators
about the micro-grant
In 2021, thanks to the many generous donations from our supporters, we launched our micro-grant program. This is our fifth year running our micro-grant program to support under-exposed artists. The micro-grant recipient is awarded a $2000 cash grant, a viewing room on our website, and an artist's talk. All additional finalists receive a $250 stipend for the labor involved in the application process. Currently the program is by nomination only. The micro-grant program is funded entirely by your generous donations to Black Ball Projects.