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2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists Announced

 

$903,000 Awarded to 132 New York State Artists Working in Craft/Sculpture, Digital/Electronic Arts, Nonfiction Literature, Poetry, and Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts

 

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and finalists of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program, which it has administered for the past 41 years with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). NYFA has awarded a total of $903,000 to 132 artists (including 6 collaborations) throughout New York State, whose ages range from 25-90 years, in the following disciplines: Craft/Sculpture, Digital/Electronic Arts, Nonfiction Literature, Poetry, and Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts.

 

A complete list of the 116 Fellows and 16 Finalists follows.

 

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program makes unrestricted cash grants of $8,000 to artists working in 15 disciplines, recognizing five disciplines per year on a triennial basis. Finalists were also recognized with unrestricted cash grants of $1,000. The program is highly competitive, and this year’s recipients and finalists were selected from 3,985 applicants in discipline-specific peer-review panels. Since it was launched in 1985, the program has awarded over $37.4 million to 5,726 artists.

 

Each year, the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship provides a lens for contemporary artistic expression. The themes, ideas, and materials used by the 2026 Fellows and Finalists are grounded in lived experience, personal perspectives, and cultural specificity–from identity and community to immigration and the diaspora; artificial intelligence; and a broad range of social, political, and economic issues. Panelists noted the increasingly blurred boundaries between traditional discipline categories and responded to work that demonstrated a clear artistic voice and conceptual rigor.  

 

 

Fellowship Recipients and Finalists by Discipline and County of Residence:

Craft/Sculpture

Paria Ahmadi (New York)
Patricia Encarnacion (Bronx)
julien feller (Essex)
Aaron Feltman (Ulster)
Sasha Fishman (Kings)
Danielle Gadus (Kings)
Covey Gong (New York)
Jesús Hilario-Reyes (Kings)
Alex Ito (Queens)
Paloma Izquierdo (Kings)
Emily Janowick (Queens)
Melissa Joseph (Kings)
Tamiko Kawata (New York)*****
Catherine Telford Keogh (New York)
Ellie Krakow (New York)
Megan Mi-Ai Lee 이미애 (New York)
Chico MacMurtrie (Kings)
Jeffrey Meris (New York)
Kristyna and Marek Milde (Kings)*
Anna Ting Möller (Kings)
Brian Oakes (Kings)
Saman & Sasan Oskouei (Queens)*
Chelsey Pettyjohn (Kings)
Vartan Poghosian (Oneida)
Lina Puerta (New York)
lucía reissig (Kings)
Alvaro Villa (Westchester)
Patrice Renee Washington (Orange)
Anne Wu (Queens)
JAYOUNG YOON 윤자영 (Dutchess)

Finalists

Rachel Dana (Kings)
courtney puckett (Dutchess)
Sabri Sundos (Kings)

Panelists

Andrea Alvarez, Curator at Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Erie)
Felipe Baeza, artist (Kings)
Edward Kwaku Boateng, Art Director & Studio Manager at Wellsville Creative Arts Center (Allegany)
Nneka Kai, artist (Chenango)
Amanda M. Johnson, Deputy Director at Chashama (Bronx)
Alison McNulty, Gallery Director at Ann Street Gallery and Interdisciplinary Artist (Orange)
Portia Munson, artist (Greene)
Stephanie H. Shih, artist (Kings)
Jovanna Venegas, Curator at SculptureCenter (Queens)

 

Digital/Electronic Arts

Zain Alam (Kings)
Kabir Carter (Kings)
Leo Chang 장리오 (Queens)
Simon Deschamps (Ulster)
alexa dexa (Suffolk)
Maria F. Izaguirre (Queens)
Umber Majeed (Kings)
MAYSUN (Kings)
Emmett Palaima (Kings)
Lisa Ann Schonberg (Kings)
rebecca shapass (Kings)
Samantha Simmons (Queens)
Yeseul Song 송예슬 (New York)
Hans Tammen (Kings)
Hakan Topal (Kings)
Frank WANG Yefeng (New York)
elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ (Kings)*

Finalists

ashley middleton (Ulster)
Stephanie Rothenberg (Erie)
Elia Vargas (Erie)

Panelists

Bianca Felix Biberaj, Co-Director of Wave Farm (Greene)
Maja Čule, artist (Kings)
Melika Dave, artist (New York)
Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Filmmaker (Tompkins)

Nonfiction Literature

Eric Tyler Benick (Kings)
May Jeong 메이 정 (Kings)
Theresa Lin (New York)
Benjamin Lorr (Kings)
Vanessa Martir (Orange)
Leila Christine Nadir (Monroe)****
Rashida Nakia (Kings)
Anastasia Nikolis (Monroe)
Beth Raymer (New York)
Sean Sam (Tompkins)
Hind Shoufani (Kings)
Hyeseung Song 송혜승 (Kings)
Angelique Stevens (Monroe)
Karen D. Taylor (New York)
May Teng (Kings)
Ly Tran (Queens)
Mai Tran (Queens)
Ricky Tucker (New York)
Nat Wisehart (Broome)
Rong Xiaoqing (Queens)

Finalists

Cam Moreno (Ulster)
Zohra Saed (Kings)
Chloe Sorvino (New York)

Panelists

Chloé Caldwell, writer and author (Columbia)
Emma Dries, Literary Agent at Triangle House (Dutchess)
Edgar Gomez, author (Queens)
Shahnaz Habib, writer (Kings)
Sarah Wang, writer

Poetry

Kimberly Alidio (Greene)
Stine An 스틴 안 (New York)
Terrence Arjoon (Kings)
Anselm Berrigan (Queens)
Anna Boughtwood (Albany)
Sasha Burshteyn (Kings)
DeeSoul Carson (Kings)
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion (Richmond)
Claire DeVoogd (Kings)
t’ai freedom ford (Kings)***
Karl Michael Iglesias (Kings)
Omotara James (Kings)
Brionne Janae (Kings)***
Christine Kitano (Suffolk)
Sade Lanay (New York)
Tan A Lin (New York)
Yesenia Montilla (New York)
Angel Nafis (Kings)
Noelle de la Paz (Kings)
Peggy Robles-Alvarado (Bronx)
Chae Sung 채 성 (New York)

Finalists

Lara Atallah (Kings)
Jan-Henry Gray (Kings)
Danielle Pafunda (Monroe)

Panelists

S. Erin Batiste, interdisciplinary poet (Kings)
Kay Gabriel, writer (Kings)
Chen Chen, poetry faculty at New England College (Monroe)
Robert Fitterman, poet (New York)
Jillian Hanesworth, Founding Poet Laureate Emerita of Buffalo, NY (Erie)

Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts

¡AGITPOP! Press (Johannah Herr & Cara Marsh Sheffler) (Kings)*
Tatiana Arocha (Kings)
Andrew Brischler (Kings)
Melissa Dadourian (Ulster)
Marisol Diaz-Gordon (Bronx)
Andy Van Dinh (New York)
Oasa DuVerney (Kings)
Amaryllis R Flowers (Greene)
Linda M. Ganjian (Queens)
Luis A. Gutierrez (Queens)
Edgar Jerins (New York)
Leekyung Kang 강이경 (Kings)**
Kyung-Me 노경미 (Queens)
Kakyoung Lee 이가경 (Kings)
Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall (New York)*
Anette Millington (Dutchess)
Kenneth Millington (Dutchess)
Azita Moradkhani (Queens)
Diana Schmertz (New York)
Jacquelyn Strycker (Kings)
Pedro Troncoso (Bronx)
Trevor Wilson (Delaware)
Chang Yuchen (Queens)

Finalists

Kelli Anderson (Kings)
Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston (New York)*
Carol Wax (Westchester)

Panelists

Osi Audu, artist (Ulster)
Elizabeth Castaldo, artist (Westchester)
M. Florine Démosthène, artist (Rockland)
Valeria Rachel Herrera, Artist; Assistant Professor and Head of Print Media, Ithaca College (Onondaga)
Isabella Kapur, Assistant Curator of Research (Kings)
Sadaf Padder, independent curator (Kings)
Karen J. Revis, artist (New York)
María Verónica San Martín, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Smith College; Board Member, Booklyn Art (Kings)
Rosemary Williams, Education Director at WNY Book Arts Center (Erie)

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