INNOVATION GRANTS
Art+Everywhere is honored to announce the following 2025 Innovation Grant projects & recipients.
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Laurie Vestøl
Meghan Bailey
Laura Esbensen & ACCNV
Innovation Grant:
The Boathouse Norway
Innovation Grant:
Intersections of Art & Archives
Innovation Grant:
The Desert Biennial Project
The Boathouse Residency is a new international artist residency on Sandøya, a small island in the Langesund archipelago, Telemark, Norway. Launching in summer 2026, the 10-day program is open to MFA graduates, students, and professors from AIB, Lesley, and Clark. Applications open in October via the Art + Everywhere platform.
The Archives in the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston will pilot an “artist residency without the residence” program, or “unresidency.” The goal of the program is to expand traditional uses of archives by inviting artists to engage with collections and create new artwork, culminating in an exhibition in the library’s Grossmann Memorial Gallery. This program aims to
grow into an annual occurrence for three to five artists each year.
The Desert Biennial Project (DBP) is a large-scale, artist-led initiative designed to counteract the dramatic loss of art spaces across Nevada. Since 2017, the closure of thirteen galleries has left the state's arts community fragmented and underserved. DBP offers a solution: a vibrant, welcoming, and site-specific biennial exhibition held on public land at the Apex Dry Lakebed in southern Nevada.