2025
Allison Janae Hamilton
“This grant is important because it not only provides practical and logistical support to my studio and family, but it's important because the Artists & Mothers organization is amplifying an important conversation in the contemporary art world and other creative communities about the needs of working parents in the creative fields.”
Allison Janae Hamilton, June 2025
Allison Janae Hamilton, Indicators - Storm King Art Center, 2018. Courtesy the artist.
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
“My practice is rooted in cultivating ecosystems of reciprocity—spaces where care, creativity, and mutual support are deeply interwoven. Raising a child while making art is not a solitary act. It’s a daily choreography of interdependence, sustained by often unseen labor and collective grace. This grant doesn’t just support my work. It validates the creative power of caregiving and the cultural value of mothers who make. The fact that it supports artists parenting children under three, a time of profound joy but also often marked by isolation, exhaustion, and precarity, makes it especially rare and necessary. It’s a bold reminder that when we invest in artist-mothers, we’re not just preserving practices, we’re reshaping the future of art itself.”
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, June 2025
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiy, Time owes us remembrance, 2024. Textile installation. Courtesy the artist.
Cecilia Lopez
“I am very grateful to Artists & Mothers for recognizing and stepping up to help mitigate the lack of support for artist moms in a city like New York. Kids are an important part of the social fabric of communities and we shouldn’t have to choose between them and our careers. It has certainly been hard to navigate the balance between artistic life and motherhood and I am excited to have the support to invest a little more time in my career without compromising the care of my daughter. I feel honored and really lucky to be a part of this crew of artists.”
Cecilia Lopez, June 2025
Cecilia Lopez, RED at University of Florida Galleries, 2020.
Biography
Allison Janae Hamilton, an artist and filmmaker working in sculpture, installation, photography, film, and painting. Using plant matter, layered imagery, complex sounds, and animal remains, Hamilton creates immersive spaces that consider the ways that the American landscape contributes to our ideas of "Americana" and social relationships to space in the face of a changing climate, particularly within the rural American south. Her work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and Atlanta Contemporary, as well as a commissioned solo project with Creative Time.
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya,a transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans textile, sculpture, painting, installation and public art. Drawing from her Thai and Indonesian roots, Phingbodhipakkiya works with hand-knotted rope, reclaimed textiles, talismans, and everyday materials to create tactile, intimate works that honor unseen labor and diasporic resilience. Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center, The Museum of the City of New York, Times Square, and countless rallies and protests around the world.
Cecilia Lopez, a composer, improviser, and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, currently based in New York City. Her interdisciplinary work spans performance, installation, and sound sculpture, often involving the creation of original electronic sound systems and devices. Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway) and the XIV Cuenca Biennial, among others.