The Trellis Art Fund, a New York–based nonprofit that launched in February 2024 with a $15.8 million endowment and the goal of supporting individual artists through unrestricted grants, is expanding its $20,000 Stepping Stone grants to a two-year program. Twenty artists in the 2025 cohort and twenty-one artists making up the 2024 group will each receive unrestricted $20,000 grants this year, with the 2025 artists receiving the same amount next year.
The expansion of the grans came as a surprise to those in the 2024 cohort. “I’m honored to receive this Stepping Stone grant extension,” said Guadalupe Rosales, a 2024 Stepping Stone fellow, in a statement. ”The support comes at a meaningful and pivotal moment in these times, allowing me to continue creating work rooted in memory, community, and the visual language of East Los Angeles. This grant helps me move forward with projects that hold deep personal and collective significance.”