Stories of Success and Cultural Impact
Our past winners represent the spirit, talent, and resilience of the Caribbean. Each awardee has used their creativity to inspire communities, preserve cultural heritage, and drive innovation across the region. We celebrate their achievements as powerful examples of how culture transforms lives and shapes our future.
Past Grantees
Draguéalo
Draguéalo is an education and entertainment community project that carries out artistic, educational, cultural and celebration/ enjoyment events of an inclusive nature.
The goal is to create safe spaces for gender expression and to produce events that celebrate the diversity of gender in the Dominican Republic.
Carlos Rodriguez
Festival Arts
Dominican Republic
Touching the Waters, Embracing Our Land
Three of Jamaica’s emerging talents in textiles and fiber arts, who have an interest in environmental issues come together to interrogate environmental issues. The project confronts issues such as the depletion of natural resources, the negative effects of pollution, and the need to preserve land and sea habitats.
Blaqmango Consultants
Visual Arts
Jamaica
Climate Change Art Park
This community activation explores the intersection of culture, the climate crisis and community. Community members were trained to implement a cultural festival, driven by community inclusion and the park location is focused on arts, nature and the environment. A central feature is an interactive sculpture by Jamaican female artist Camille Chedda.
Kingston Creative
Visual Arts
Jamaica
Chants for the Sixth Extinction
Two audio productions set at the intersection of history, biography, and ecology acknowledge the foundational impact of the plantation model in Barbados while drawing on histories of resistance and resilience found in the voice, the drum and new technologies. The project also brings together an interdisciplinary and inter-generational team of collaborators.
Music and Sound Recording
Barbados
6th National Meeting of Women Writers
Three of Jamaica’s emerging talents in textiles and fiber arts, who have an interest in environmental issues come together to interrogate environmental issues. The project confronts issues such as the depletion of natural resources, the negative effects of pollution, and the need to preserve land and sea habitats.
Blaqmango Consultants
Visual Arts
Jamaica
Kindred on the Rock
Three of Jamaica’s emerging talents in textiles and fiber arts, who have an interest in environmental issues come together to interrogate environmental issues. The project confronts issues such as the depletion of natural resources, the negative effects of pollution, and the need to preserve land and sea habitats.
Blaqmango Consultants
Visual Arts
Jamaica
Digitising Historical Artefacts for Virtual Conservation
Three of Jamaica’s emerging talents in textiles and fiber arts, who have an interest in environmental issues come together to interrogate environmental issues. The project confronts issues such as the depletion of natural resources, the negative effects of pollution, and the need to preserve land and sea habitats.
Blaqmango Consultants
Visual Arts
Jamaica
Gaga, Black Culture and Ancestry
Three of Jamaica’s emerging talents in textiles and fiber arts, who have an interest in environmental issues come together to interrogate environmental issues. The project confronts issues such as the depletion of natural resources, the negative effects of pollution, and the need to preserve land and sea habitats.
Blaqmango Consultants
Visual Arts
Jamaica
Once Upon a Caribbean Time: Children’s Picture Book Production
Three of Jamaica’s emerging talents in textiles and fiber arts, who have an interest in environmental issues come together to interrogate environmental issues. The project confronts issues such as the depletion of natural resources, the negative effects of pollution, and the need to preserve land and sea habitats.
Blaqmango Consultants
Visual Arts
Jamaica
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