ISLAA Research Grant Spring 2024 Grantees

After carefully reviewing dozens of outstanding applications, our selection committee has selected the following five recipients for the Spring 2024 cycle of the ISLAA Research Grant. Congratulations to all grantees!

Bianca Barbosa Chizzolini

PhD Candidate

Universidade de São Paulo

Deep Weft: Hand-Made Textile Making in Oaxaca

Amy Crum

PhD Candidate  

University of California, Los Angeles

Beyond the Wall: Exhibiting Intermediality in LA Chicanx Muralism

Andrea Carolina Miranda Pestana 

PhD Candidate

University at Albany, SUNY

Panameñas no alineadas: Panamanian Women Artists and Women Cultural Producers During the Military Regime in Panama

Nicolas Poblete

MA Student 

Hunter College

Queer Exorcisms: Chilean Performance Art-Activism as Pornoterrorism, 1973–2023

Lucy Quezada Yáñez 

PhD Candidate

Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS), University of Texas at Austin

Shaping the Official Field: Art and Power During the Civilian-Military Dictatorships of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

The ISLAA Research Grant aims to expand access to research funding by supporting emerging scholars. Grantees receive funding to conduct novel investigations into themes, geographies, and chronologies of modern and contemporary art and culture from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. 

During our open call for proposals, we invite MA and PhD students enrolled in graduate university programs worldwide to apply. Research must be directed toward the completion of master’s theses or doctoral dissertations, peer-reviewed journal articles, or conference presentations. Research activities may include consulting resources at libraries, museums, and archives; interviewing artists, curators, and scholars; arranging studio visits; and/or conducting field research. The Research Grant will award grantees an award of up to $2,500 USD. Grantees will be chosen by a selection committee of scholars and art professionals.

For questions about the ISLAA Research Grant, please email Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano: blanca.serranoortiz@islaa.org.