Mosaik Philanthropy
This year’s 2021 Future Art Awards is an arts-based exploration of the changing meanings, practices, paradoxes, and futures associated with Democracy. Welcoming a diverse range of art submissions from hundreds of artists across the United States, MOZAIK Philanthropy’s 2nd Annual Awards program drew inspiration from the top of social and environmental justice movements of the recent past, including Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, Me Too, Times Up, Keep It In The Ground, and Love Wins, among others.
The 2021 Awards celebrated the theme Re-Imagining Democracy by inviting artists of all backgrounds and creative expressions to submit their art as a commentary on the current and future state of U.S. democratic values.
In keeping with MOZAIK’s mission to democratize philanthropy through a participatory grantmaking practice, the organization welcomed an independent jury of art professionals to assess the art submissions in a blind review, ultimately selecting 10 featured artists to receive $2,000 honorarias and an additional 40 special mention artists to receive $1,000 honorarias.