NEWS


2022 black ball projects micro-grant

This is our second year running the Micro-grant program. The program is funded entirely by your generous donations to Black Ball Projects. Currently the program is by nomination only, see our wonderful list of Nominators. This year we decided to move forward with a rotating genre format; the genre for 2022 is: "Painting in the Expanded Field". Our criteria is determined by three factors: having a mature art practice, being an under-exposed artist and being in financial need.
There is one winner and seven runner-ups.
The winner receives the Micro-grant of $2000, as well as a Viewing Room and an Artist's Talk on Black Ball Project's digital platform.
Each of the seven Runner-Ups receives a $250 stipend for the labor they put into the application process.


If you would like to support the Micro-grant Program

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2022 black ball projects micro-grant runner-ups

Click on an artist’s image below to view more information


2022 micro-granT winner
Mashell Black

Application Images
Viewing Room

Mashell Black, Oil Painting

Mashell Black, “Playground”, 104 x 138 inches, Oil on canvas, 2021


the 2022 micro-grant nominators



Inaugural 2021
Black Ball Projects Micro-grant


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artnet News Editor’s pick


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Sarah Trigg:
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Brooklyn Rail Review


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John Pugh: INVERTED OBSOLESCENCE
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from Art F City




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“12×12, 2016”

Editor’s pick on See Saw  List


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“HELLO, SEEKERS”

Editor’s pick on See Saw List


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REVIEW for MTN on VICE’s Creator’s Project

link to PDF


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Black Ball Projects will be part of the inaugural “Independent Art Book Fair”
September 16-18, 2016 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn


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Damien Davis: OBJECT/AFFECTION
gets Artnet’s pick of the week for June 6

Damien Davis in conversation with
Lyle Ashton Harris
at Black Ball Projects, Sept. 14, 2016


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Family Viewing
Linda Gallagher and Ted Partin

Reviewed in the Village Voice by R.C. Baker