{"id":367297,"date":"2026-08-10T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367297\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:46:09","slug":"locust-projects-awards-60000-in-wavemaker-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367297\/","title":{"rendered":"Locust Projects Awards $60,000 in WaveMaker Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bex McCharen was one of the recipients of a grant for New Work for the experimental documentary project \u201cQueer Atlantics\u201d as part of Locust Projects 2026 WaveMaker Grants. (Photo courtesy of Locust Projects)<\/p>\n

A dozen Miami artists and collectives will receive a total of $60,000 to develop projects ranging from art on basketball courts and Miami beaches to an experimental radio installation and an exhibition inside a Coral Gables bar.<\/p>\n

The 12\u00a0 are recipients of Locust Projects<\/a>\u2018 2026 WaveMaker Grants, the 11th year of a program designed to support experimental work created outside traditional arts spaces. The grants, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\u2019 Regional Regranting Program, provide artists with awards of up to $6,000.<\/p>\n

Since the program began in 2015, WaveMaker has awarded $750,000 to 152 Miami artists, curators and collectives, according to Locust Projects.\u00a0 There were 115 applicants who submitted projects\u00a0 that were evaluated for their artistic rigor, connection to Miami-Dade, community impact, feasibility and accessibility to the public.<\/p>\n

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Lar\u00ed Garc\u00eda and Sue Montoya, \u201cReasoning and Feeling\u201d at Seven Seas Bar. (Photo courtesy of Locust Projects)<\/p>\n

The seven artists receiving $6,000 New Work\/Projects grants offer a particularly wide-ranging look at where Miami artists are turning their attention. The projects are intended to eventually move beyond the grant stage and into public view.\u00a0 WaveMaker specifically supports work presented in unconventional spaces and made accessible to the public, with this year\u2019s projects planned for locations including beaches, basketball courts, parking lots, transit hubs and a neighborhood bar.<\/p>\n

Artists lar\u00ed garc\u00eda and Sue Montoya will create \u201cReasoning and Feeling,\u201d a two-person exhibition at Coral Gables\u2019 Seven Seas Bar that considers the disappearance of informal community gathering places, or \u201cthird spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lisa Kusanagi\u2019s \u201cUntil My Ocean Dries\u201d will take place along Miami\u2019s coastline, where the artist will use a monumental calligraphy brush and ocean water to write words on concrete pathways that gradually disappear in the heat.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Kusanagi, \u201cUntil My Ocean Dries.\u201d (Courtesy of Locust Projects)<\/p>\n

Najja Moon will turn outdoor basketball courts throughout Miami-Dade into classrooms for \u201cMovement Studies,\u201d a lecture-performance series that uses basketball as a way into art history.<\/p>\n

Enrique Villacreses\u2019 \u201cNIJI: BLUE,\u201d meanwhile, transforms a sports field into an outdoor installation and performance viewed both from the ground and through aerial drone footage.<\/p>\n

Other New Work recipients are Bex McCharen for the experimental documentary project \u201cQueer Atlantics\u201d; \u1eccm\u1ecdlar\u00e1 Williams McCallister for \u201cCREAM (Community Rules Everything Around Me),\u201d a project built around a speculative local paper currency; and Luka Gotsiridze for \u201cGO TO BED,\u201d an interactive public art project exploring rest, memory and what it means never to have had a bed of one\u2019s own.<\/p>\n

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Teri Watson, \u201cSEED Erosion Blocks. \u201c(Photo courtesy of Locust Projects)<\/p>\n

Isabella Bru will receive a $6,000 Long-Haul Project grant for \u201cWe Are Permitted,\u201d the monthly series that turns parking lots and transit hubs into free pop-up galleries. Research and development grants of $2,000 each go to Nicole Combeau, Orlando Estrada and Oscar Rieveling, while Teri Watson will recieve a $4,000 implementation grant for \u201cSEED Erosion Blocks,\u201d which repurposes invasive sargassum seaweed into modular concrete blocks designed to help stabilize shorelines while functioning as public art.<\/p>\n

ArtburstMiami.com<\/a> is a nonprofit media source for the arts featuring fresh and original stories by writers dedicated to theater, dance, visual arts, film, music and more. Don\u2019t miss a story at www.artburstmiami.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written By Artburst Editor August 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM Bex McCharen was one of the recipients of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-367297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}