2022 FALL GRANTEES

Music Grantee - Tobias Meinhart

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Fall Music Grant to Tobias Meinhart for his upcoming album, “Sonic River.”

Tobias Meinhart is an award-winning saxophonist and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in a small town in rural Bavaria, Germany, Tobias Meinhart has spent the last 15 years carving out a career in the international jazz scene. Tobias has composed 10 new songs for “Sonic River”. The music is influenced by traditional rhythms such as the Haitian Yanvalou or Son Claves used in odd metres. The album will be recorded in NYC in the spring 2023 and is expected to be released in the fall of the same year.

Literature Grantee - Rosebud Ben-Oni

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Fall Literature Grant to Rosebud Ben-Oni for her upcoming book titled The Atomic Sonnets.

Rosebud Ben-Oni is a Jewish Latinx author, and the winner of 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery (March 2021), which received a Starred Review in Booklist and was a Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. She is also the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019) and the chapbook 20 Atomic Sonnets (Black Warrior Review, 2020) in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday.

Performance Grantee - Sachiyo Takahashi

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Fall Performance Grant to Sachiyo Takahashi for the 2023 production of “The Emotions : Equinox” as part of the 2023 Puppetopia Festival, on March 22-23, 2023.

Sachiyo Takahashi is a Japanese composer, musician, and artist whose work centers around storytelling. Compositing sensory elements in a minimalist manner, she explores the border between narrative and abstraction to generate fables for the subconscious. Her interests throughout her career have been in the merging of audio and visual as well as the use of non-human figures (puppet, object, sound, light). She composes sound and visual elements simultaneously to design a synergistic score.  

Visual Grantee - Nicki Cherry

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Fall Visual Grant to Nicki Cherry to help her with her project, “The Doctrine of Signatures”.

The Doctrine of Signatures is an installation of new sculptures with live tulips sprouting from crevices in each form. While each sculpture can be read as an independent creature, the sculptures also collectively appear as fragments of a larger body. Using UV grow lamps combined with the gallery’s ambient lighting, the tulips cycle through their lifespan—sprouting, blooming, and finally wilting.

Visual Grantee - Olivia Erlanger

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Fall Visual Grant to Olivia Erlanger to help her with her project, tentatively titled “Appliance” to be shown in NYC in March 2023.

Olivia Erlanger is an artist living and working in New York City. Her practice spans sculpture, video, and installation. Her work has been shown at Kunstverein Gartenhaus (Vienna), Dallas Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, ICA London, Swiss Institute (New York), and more. She recently published Appliance (2022, Wild Seeds) and Garage (2018, MIT Press), which was co-authored with architect Luis Ortega Govela. Additional writing and interviews have been featured in Flash Art magazine, Pin Up magazine, and a forthcoming essay in Tank Magazine.