For the purpose of recognizing outstanding talent and potential in young visual artists, the Dallas Museum of Art established the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund and The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund in 1980. Over 310 artists have received a combined total of nearly $630,000 through these two separate funds. The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant was created in 1990 and honors the memory of Dallas artists Otis and Velma Dozier, who strongly believed in the enriching influence of travel on an artist’s work. The grant seeks to recognize exceptional talent in professional artists who wish to expand their artistic horizons through domestic or foreign travel. It is awarded to professional artists at least 30 years of age who reside in Texas. Since the fund’s development, the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant has given over $200,000.
This year, 10 artists received awards from: the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award, the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award, and the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant. All 2022 recipients are from Texas including nine based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Multidisciplinary artist Ciara Elle Bryant served as this year’s guest juror.
“We are so grateful for the opportunity to recognize the outstanding talent in our region through the DMA’s Awards to Artists Program,” said the DMA’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck. “We are continuously impressed by the ambitions of these emerging and established artists to challenge themselves and grow their practices, and we are honored to play our part in encouraging new experiences and experiments through material support.”
The DeGolyer and Kimbrough funds will primarily support research and materials for the development of new, ambitious bodies of work. Projects and activities include the creation of a performance-based sculpture, funds to attend exhibitions and site visits, mobile studio space, and supplies. The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant will support travel to Guanajuato, Mexico to consider familial memory, heritage, and the archive; the American West and Italy to visit hot tub factories and hot springs in an exploration of labor, leisure, and access; and Łódź, Poland to investigate intersections of land, materiality, and cultural hybridity.
The awarded artists’ work represents the rich span of contemporary art production, with practices that traverse drawing, sculpture, installation, video, painting, and digital art.
2022 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award recipients:
Aliyah Cydonia Scobey
Kameron Walker
2022 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award recipients:
Krista Chalkley
Julia Caswell Freund
Erica Lee
Enrique Nevarez
Sarah Pickett
2022 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant recipients:
Sarah Ayala
Kristen Cochran
Nishiki Sugawara-Beda