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THE JAR OF LOVE FUND 2025 NEW YORK

ARTNOIR is thrilled to announce the 2025 edition of the Jar of Love Fund in partnership with Sotheby’s. This microgrant initiative supports artists, designers, curators, and cultural producers of color with unrestricted $5,000 grants and includes mentorship and opportunities designed to foster long-term creative and community impact.

This year’s cycle focuses on recipients based in New York, where selected grantees will join a dynamic cohort of peers and gain access to programming and networks within the broader arts ecosystem. Founded in 2020 in response to a moment of global unrest, the Jar of Love Fund has evolved into a powerful platform for resource redistribution and cultural care—disbursing more than $300,000 in direct support to date.

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The 2024 cycle marked a bold expansion through our international collaboration with Dr. Samuel Ross’ MBE’s Black British Artist Grants Programme by SR_A, extending the fund to creatives in New York and London. From this transatlantic initiative emerged a remarkable group of grantees, including creatives such as Emmanuel Massillon, in NYC, whose socially engaged, multidimensional practice continues to grow, and Daria S. Harper, whose writing and editorial vision as co-founder of Jupiter Magazine elevates underrepresented narratives in art and culture. In London, we were honored to support creatives like Bafic, a visionary image-maker and filmmaker whose conceptual approach disrupts traditional storytelling, and Phoebe Collings-James, whose influential ceramics explore identity, intimacy, and resistance.

In 2025, we continue this momentum by deepening our commitment to creatives based in New York. This new cohort will join a growing community of Jar of Love alumni whose practices exemplify artistic excellence, cultural innovation, and social impact.

Grantees are selected by an esteemed committee including Derrick Adams, multidisciplinary artist, Dr. Kellie Jones, Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History & Archaeology and Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University, Diya Vij, Curator at Creative Time. The 2025 cohort is set to be announced this fall.

Eligibility:
Applicants must be 18 years or older, reside in New York State or adjacent Tribal Nations, and be actively working within the arts. We welcome applications from individuals across all disciplines—including visual art, performance, choreography, writing, design, curation, and other forms of cultural production. We strongly encourage submissions from practitioners across all gender identities, sexual orientations, disability statuses, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We are committed to equity in arts funding and will continue to prioritize outreach to historically underserved communities.

Deadline:
Applications are open now and will close on September 15, 2025.

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We extend our heartfelt thanks to Sotheby’s for their continued partnership. Their support makes it possible for ARTNOIR to expand the Jar of Love Fund’s reach while investing in the future of artists and cultural workers of color across the globe.

For inquiries email us at hello@artnoir.co