Published by the Michigan Chronicle
June 13, 2025
Featuring Akea Brionne
June 2023 Cohort
The Knight Foundation is once again putting its money where the future is as art meets tech with the announcement of the 2025 Knight Arts + Tech Fellows. Five visionary artists will each receive an unrestricted $50,000 grant to explore the boundaries of new media and technology in contemporary art.
Now in its fifth year, the fellowship uplifts artists pushing the envelope through artificial intelligence, digital fabrication, immersive experiences, and other tools reshaping how stories are told and felt. This year’s cohort includes Miami’s own Antonia Wright, known for her high-impact, body-centered installations; Detroit-based Ash Arder, whose research-heavy projects interrogate industry and ecology; interdisciplinary sculptor Michelle Lopez, whose work deconstructs power through race and feminist lenses; Akea Brionne, whose AI-augmented textile work examines colonial histories; and Matthew Angelo Harrison, whose resin sculptures bridge ancestral memory and futuristic aesthetics.