The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their 2024 fellows Thursday, including three artists from Minnesota: Visual artist Dyani White Hawk, author David Mura and painter Lamar Peterson.
The annual fellowship dates back to 1925 and is one of the most prestigious awards given to scholars and artists who are citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada.
Winners are chosen from a pool of approximately 3,000 applicants with about 175 fellowships awarded annually. The fellowship is accompanied by a grant to help fund a specific project. The amount varies from project to project, but past grants have averaged between $40,000 and $55,000.
White Hawk works out of the Casket Arts building in Northeast Minneapolis and lives in Shakopee. The Lakota artist is known for her beadwork and fusing traditional practices with modern art.
The fellowship comes on the tail of White Hawk winning a Creative Capital grant earlier this year, and a MacArthur fellowship in 2023.
"I'm thrilled and excited," White Hawk said. “To have that support is a sense of relief; that we have another pool of financial support to help create some really ambitious pieces that we're working on for the Walker exhibition that's coming up.”
White Hawk will have a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center in fall 2025. For that show, she and her team are making “something new, big and sculptural.”
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