© Sara Abbaspour
Project Development Grant
The Project Development Grant provides financial support to a fine art, documentary, or photojournalistic work-in-progress. The $5,000 grant package includes professional development and public presentation opportunities.
PROJECT ADVANCEMENT PACKAGE
• $5,000 USD
• Winners Exhibition at CENTER
• Review Santa Fe participation
• Public Project Presentation
• Publication in LENSCRATCH
• Professional Development Seminars access
• Inclusion in CENTER’s annual printed Program Guide
• Inclusion in the CENTER Winners Gallery & Archive
We are adding to our database and archive of lens-based work from the last 30 years and invite you to contribute. All applicant’s work will remain in the CENTER archive, regardless of award status.
2025 Juror
© Ciara Elle Bryant
Kristen Gaylord – Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum
Kristen Gaylord is the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she is organizing forthcoming exhibitions with Erin Shirreff and Widline Cadet. In her prior role as a curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, her recent projects included exhibitions Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision (2022) and Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood (2024), whose catalogue won a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. Gaylord previously held multiple curatorial roles at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she contributed to over ten exhibitions and publications, including Stephen Shore (2017); Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017); and Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 (2015). She earned a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.
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