Thank you to all that attended the Ninth Annual Grilled Cheese Grant! With your support, we raised over $5,800! This means that for the second year in a row, GCG was able to FULLY FUND each finalist’s project.

See the
2024 winners:

FIRST PLACE:

MAKENNA SCHIBLER

_{“These works support my early and current exploration of 2D fiber paintings. In my work, I navigate the intersection of freeform crochet, and the visual depth of painting by blocking. By recognizing the patterns of color in visuals, I am able to provide translation through this unconventional medium. Each piece relies on color, texture, and form to build their narrative. Through fibrous media, I challenge preconcieved notions of both crochet and painting.”}

Image: Ducat, yarn, 2020

SECOND PLACE

STELLA KOWSLOWSKI

“When I sleep I have very vivid and bizarre dreams. Sometimes they form a story, but mostly they are clips from a longer movie that I forget once I wake up, leaving these snapshots or segments in my mind. The feeling of falling asleep and into a dream feels like being pulled through a soft void, which is sometimes unsettling because of the lack of control.”

IMAGE: Untitled, oil paint and textiles on canvas, 2023

THIRD PLACE

MADELINE CAWKINS

“Life has a way of coming back from the edge of destruction. But what happens if it doesn’t? Humans are at a point where every move taken is to the benefit of humans. The consequences are seldom looked at. One of these consequences is the destruction of natural land. The earth is the home to every human on it and yet it is being treated like a thing and not a living, breathing organism. One of the topics this work addresses is the destruction of land being burned by the train derailments that have happened in the past year.”

IMAGE: Pedere Anima, Digital print of mordancage and silver gelatin print, 2023

FOURTH PLACE

T.J BLANCO

“By taking the knowledge of gender as a performed thing to its most literal representation, my work examines the ways in which queer, femme and women identified individuals perform their senses of self through their objects. In positioning the home as a sort of refuge from the oppressive forces of our time, it acts as a judgment free haven, away from the violence and scrutiny of cis-heteropatriarchy. My film situates itself as a respite from the pervading white, cis, hetero logic, offering forth a place of liberated potentiality in its place.”

IMAGE: Mollie, digital print, 2023

FIFTH PLACE

JESSICA GASKEY

“My work is inspired by my background in journalism with a concentration in documentary filmmaking. I am interested in exploring personal relationships as well as meeting new people and listening to their stories. As a storyteller, filmmaking is my expression of these personal experiences, and how I relate to others and find meaning in my daily life.”

IMAGE: screen test for ring exchange in past, nikon Z5, 2023

Our 2024
Sponsors:

Thank you to 2024 Community Sponsors Artdose Magazine, aryn kresol, Blanket Editions, Cactus Club, Current Projects, docMyArt, gener8tor Art, Heinn Chapman, MARN, MIAD, K Pop Events Wisconsin, Portrait Society Gallery, Stories of the Streets, Tanager Sculpture Works, Troubadour Bakery, Task Creative, Var Gallery, WPCA, Young Space

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