Today, Instagram, The Brooklyn Museum, and Antwaun Sargent‘s #BlackVisionaries have honorably joined forces to present $650,000 in grants to Black artists and designers around the United States. The grants also include five $100,000 Visionary Small Business Grants for American, Black-led organizations focused on design.
Instagram’s Black Visionaries program was founded to empower, honor, and invest in creative Black voices, and the winners were selected from almost 2,000 applicants. “Community builds community, and that’s the intentionality behind what we’re trying to establish here,” stated Antwaun Sargent, writer, curator, and #BlackVisionaries Creative Chair. “It is the financial support, mentorship, connections, and the emphasis on storytelling that, combined, are meant to provide a framework for the boundless development of these recipients.”
The grant…
