2024 Awardees Announced for the IAM Creativity Grants Program
Launched in 2023, the Individual Artist Merit and Creativity (IAM Creativity) program in Howard County aims to recognize and celebrate local artists across diverse disciplines. Open to artists aged 18 and above residing in Howard County, IAM Creativity offers unrestricted funds to support their creative endeavors.
IAM Creativity provides both $5,000 and $1,000 awards per discipline per year. The program supports various disciplines annually, starting with Dance and Visual Arts in 2024. The 2024 recipients are:
Dance
- Hope Byers, Choreography – $5,000
- Misako Aoki, Choreography – $1,000
- Darion Smith, Choreography – $1,000
- Misty Yackshaw, Choreography – $1,000
Visual Arts
- Jennifer Hudson, Cut Paper – $5,000
- Willy Conley, Photography – $1,000
- Sookkyung Park, Sculpture – $1,000
- Fahimeh Vahdat, Mixed Media – $1,000
Upcoming years will feature grants for Film, New Media, & Video and Music & Music Composition (2025), Theatre and Literary Arts (2026), and Folk & Traditional Arts (2027). Look for the application for Film, New Media, & Video and Music & Music Composition in the coming months.
For more details on IAM Creativity, visit www.hocoarts.org/iam-creativity