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Celebrating the 2025 Artist Fellowship Awards

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The Artist Fellowship Awards are one of Great Performances’ most cherished traditions and every year, they remind us just how deeply creativity runs through our community. In 2025, GP proudly awarded four $5,000 fellowships, investing $20,000 in the artistic projects of team members whose work reflects imagination, heart, and the cultural vitality of New York City.

This year’s winners are:

Yuleima Gonzales - El Manifesto del Duelo

A poetic and conceptual audiovisual piece that explores memory, the body, and the spiritual connection to the land. This project aims to create a sensory and symbolic experience where nature, the female body, and voice intertwine in a visual and sonic invocation.

Ananda White - The Butterfly Vase

A short film about a girlfriend who suddenly finds herself at her boyfriend’s funeral, closed off from her feelings and everyone around her, leaving with his urn in hopes of getting closure on the secret she harbors.

Dane Terry - Record with Dad

An autofiction musical podcast about Dane’s childhood, being raised evangelical and experiencing the loss of his mother in a car accident. Dane examines loss, faith, and queerness through memoir and song, which he brings full circle by recording in his hometown with his father on drums.

Michael Russell - Everybody Eats

An illustrated children’s book geared toward ages 3 to 6, Everybody Eats aims to promote inclusivity through what and how people eat and to combat body shame.  Everybody Eats is the unofficial prequel to Everyone Poops.

The fellows were honored at a ceremony on January 12 at Mae Mae Café and Plant Shop, an event that has become a favorite among GP employees. The gathering brought colleagues together to celebrate one another’s creative ambitions and hear directly from the artists about the work they’re bringing into the world. Founder and CEO Liz Neumark presented the awards alongside New York State Assemblymember Amanda Septimo, who also presented each awardee with an official Citation from the New York State Assembly in recognition of their artistic achievements.

Rooted in GP’s founding mission to provide flexible employment that empowers women in the arts, the Artist Fellowship Awards continue to be a source of pride across the company. Year after year, the program reflects what makes Great Performances special: a shared belief that supporting each other’s creativity makes us all stronger.

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