2022 SPRinG GrAntees

Visual Grantee - Hedwig Brouckaert

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Spring Visual Grant to Hedwig Brouckaert for her project “Peel - America”.

Hedwig Brouckaert works with mass media imagery to create introspective and tactile works, which range from drawings and sculptures to site-specific installations. ‘Peel - America’ is a series of paper collage on ceramic and marble tiles, working with imagery of skin from mass media.

Visual Grantee - Kosuke Kawahara

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Spring Visual Grant to Kosuke Kawahara for his project “Disfigured Galaxy”.

Disfigured Galaxy addresses the mystic presence of deformed organisms and their surrounding environment through various medium and visual presentation formats, including painting, drawing, sculpture and will be set up as an installation, which may include an onsite drawing project.

Music Grantee - Elysse

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Spring Music Grant to Elysse to help complete her debut album, “Rest of Our Lives”, which she plans to release in early 2023.

Rest of Our Lives is the culmination of her lifelong explorations as a vocalist, writer, poet, composer, and producer. The songs on this album pursue her guiding artistic principle: that a song is its own universe. While the tracks on Rest Of Our Lives draw from an array of musical idioms, they all express her primary aim as a writer and a poet: to capture the multidimensionality of a feeling and provide a sonic space for listeners to discover fresh modes of thinking, feeling, and imagining.

Music Grantee - Chase Elodia

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Spring Music Grant to Chase Elodia to help complete his project, “Phantoms Among Us”.

Phantoms Among Us is a set of new original music for jazz ensemble+voice that explores the idea of "Ambiguous Loss" through the lens of an intergenerational family portrait. Penned by social scientist Pauline Boss, the concept of "ambiguous loss" refers to that particular, ongoing mode of grief that emerges without a clear beginning or ending point.

Literature Grantee - Bazeed

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2022 Spring Literature Grant to Bazeed for their first novel, “The Boy Made of Air”, novel written in obsessions & compulsions, in states of mind & stories within stories, in myths & fables, in multiplicities of voice & vector; about diaspora, subtext, and silence, and a pair of twins, one named after the sun, the other after the light. Set in the very particular dystopia of modern-day petrostate labor diaspora, The Boy Made of Air, like most novels about families, asks what is it we owe each other, of witness, and of saving.