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Congratulations to the 2026 Kresge Artist Fellows!

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Salar Ansari photographed by Jenny Risher — Salar Ansari

Music Composition, Music Performance

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Jeremy Brockman photographed by Jenny Risher — Jeremy Brockman

Film Directing, Screenwriting

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Maurice "Pirahnahead" Herd photographed by Jenny Risher — Maurice “Pirahnahead” Herd

Music Composition

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Mitch McCabe photographed by Jenny Risher — Mitch McCabe

Interdisciplinary Work

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Shahida Nurullah photographed by Jenny Risher — Shahida Nurullah

Music Performance

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Ackeem Salmon photographed by Jenny Risher — Ackeem Salmon

Interdisciplinary Work, Interdisciplinary Work, Music Composition, Music Performance

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Frisly Soberanis photographed by Jenny Risher — Frisly Soberanis

Film Directing, New Media

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Galaxy photographed by Jenny Risher — Galaxy

Performance Art, Poetry, Spoken Word

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Ed Miller photographed by Jenny Risher — Ed Miller

Choreography, Dance Performance

Portrait of 2026 Kresge Artist Fellow Karen Prall photographed by Jenny Risher — Karen Prall

Choreography, Dance Performance

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Image from work sample by Emell Derra Adolphus — Emell Derra Adolphus

Creative Nonfiction

Portrait of 2025 Kresge Artist Fellow Louis Aguilar by Jenny Risher — Louis Aguilar

Creative Nonfiction

Portrait of 2025 Kresge Artist Fellow Beenish Ahmed by Jenny Risher — Beenish Ahmed

Fiction

Still from Kresge Artist Fellowship film featuring Taylor Renee Aldridge — Taylor Renee Aldridge

Arts Criticism

Benjamin Alfaro

Poetry

Photo of Alise Alousi reading — Alise Alousi

Poetry

Cheryl A. Alston

Arts Criticism

Photo of Maia Asshaq — Maia Asshaq

Poetry

Cover of Marking The Dispossessed by Danielle Aubert — Danielle Aubert

Interdisciplinary Work

Photo of Terry Blackhawk performing — Terry Blackhawk

Poetry

Book cover of "What are we not for" by Tommye Blount — Tommye Blount

Poetry

Photo of Melba Joyce Boyd — Melba Joyce Boyd

Interdisciplinary Work, Poetry

Screenshot from Kresge Artist Fellowship film featuring Shawntai Brown — Shawntai Brown

Playwriting, Playwriting

Book cover of Grievers by adrienne maree brown — adrienne maree brown

Fiction

Work smaple by Mike Burdick — Mike Burdick

Graphic Novels

Photo of Vince Carducci — Vince Carducci

Arts Criticism

Screenshot from work sample by Jeffry Chapman — Jeffrey S. Chapman

Graphic Novels

Cover of Jack Cheng's See You in the Cosmos — Jack Cheng

Fiction

Book cover for "Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe" by Zig Zag Claybourne — Zig Zag Claybourne

Fiction

Portrait of 2025 Kresge Artist Fellow Anetria Cole by Jenny Risher — Anetria Cole

Playwriting, Playwriting

Screenshot of work sample by Nandi Comer — Nandi Comer

Poetry

Desiree Cooper

Fiction

Book cover of My Blue Coiling Snake by Lynn Crawford — Lynn Crawford

Fiction

Book cover for Blaze by Kahn Santori Davison — Kahn Santori Davison

Poetry

Screenshot of work sample by Jeni De La O — Jeni De La O

Poetry

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