2023 BANF Artist Awards
The 2023 BANF Artist Awards aims to empower and support Greater Houston’s diverse artistic community by offering a significant one-time investment of $20,000 to the first 25 artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, or any other community of color (BIPOC).
This award serves as a testament to the artists’ dedication and contributions to Houston’s communities of color, recognizing their invaluable role in shaping and enriching the cultural landscape of the city.
Meet the 2023 Awardees
Sergio Sandoval
Actor, promotor cultural y firme creyente que la comunicación, la comprensión y la aceptación de todos los seres humanos
2023 BIPOC Arts Network and Fund Artist Awards Process
The BIPOC Arts Network and Fund made a commitment to support individual artists since its inception in August of 2022. We initiated the work with an organization and fiscally-sponsored collectives focused grant opportunity to begin to build our network and capacities in such a way that we could manifest a process that centered equity, understanding this would also allow us to develop the infrastructure to create a meaningful program to invest in individuals. As with all BANF resource initiatives, we aim to build a community-participatory process that reduces barriers to entry, recognizes the humanity and value of each applicant, and avoids granting practices that perpetuated harm, particularly on those who have been historically marginalized and under-recognized. We focus our knowledge, expertise, and energy on the process more than controlling for an outcome.