Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum Partner to Launch a Grant Program in Support of Young Black …

Instagram is teaming up with the Brooklyn Museum in an effort to uplift aspiring Black designers. #BlackDesignVisonaries is a collaboration between Instagram’s @design page and the Brooklyn Museum, which will award up to $130,000 in grant money. This includes three $10,000 grants that will be given to young designers and one $100,000 grant, which will be awarded to a Black-led small design business.”Design has a profound impact on the shape of our daily lives. Because of that, it is vitally important that design is inclusive of all,” says Antwaun Sargent, the grant committee lead, in a statement. The grant program was developed in collaboration with the three Black-led design organizations—the Chicago Mobile Makers, the Hidden Genius Project, and the Inneract Project—and its winners will be judged by a panel of some of the design world’s brightest names: This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Justina Blakeney, Founder and Creative Director of JungalowRuth E. Carter, Oscar-winning Costume DesignerToni L. Griffin, Founder of urbanAC, Professor in Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Director of The Just…
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